The restructuring of Leeds Building Society’s intermediary team has been completed, with the appointment of two new national intermediary development managers.

Karen Bowman has been appointed for the North and Mark Collar for the South.

Both will report to Louisa Sedgwick, head of intermediary distribution, and in addition to leading a team of six regional business development managers, each also will manage some corporate accounts.

Bowman has worked at at Lloyds Banking Group, as national sales manager for Platform and most recently as a broker for MAB.

Collar was previously corporate accounts manager, having joined the Society a year ago from Defaqto, after roles with Santander and Mortgage Express.

Sedgwick said: I’m really pleased to have filled the new posts quickly and have the strengthened team in place.

“We have listened to feedback from brokers as we reviewed our intermediary proposition and have restructured and invested in our team to enable us to continue to react, innovate and improve the service we offer to our intermediary partners.

“Our lending through intermediaries is growing, as part of a strong performance so far this year, and we have the appetite to increase this further.”