Business Development Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Who we are!
Meridian OneCap Credit Corp (MOC) is an equipment and finance company providing a broad range of financial services to businesses throughout Canada. Our parent, Meridian Credit Union, has over 70 years of banking history and is Ontario’s largest credit union.
MOC is a provider of asset financing in the form of capital leases. We are committed to being the best provider of specialized equipment financing services to strategic vendors across Canada. Our service-oriented culture and exceptional group of professionals serves to provide our strategic partners with value-added service and constructive solutions.
Meridian OneCap Credit Corp provides customized leasing solutions both to help companies sell equipment and to companies that have chosen to lease equipment, rather than buy. For manufacturers and vendors, we enable you to provide your customers with a value-added service that helps your customers acquire equipment efficiently and gives your company a competitive edge. And for the end user, we can help you to preserve working capital in your business, while benefiting now from the use of the equipment.
Our team is known as industry leaders. We’ve earned our reputation through consistent delivery of financing programs with the most efficient transaction process and superior customer service. With the largest direct sales force within the Canadian market, it’s no wonder our customer service is unparalleled.
About Meridian OneCap
The role:
The Business Development Manager is responsible for the marketing and sales of all products and services within a defined market area to targeted vendors and resellers of equipment that meet credit parameters.
The incumbent will be responsible for identifying and developing targeted vendors to provide programs that allow the vendor to maximize lease penetration to their customer base.
The focus of sales efforts will be on equipment finance and lease transactions up to but not limited to $250,000.The Business Development Manager’s expected volume target ranges from $5 to $20 million annually depending on his/her assigned territory.
The Business Development Manager is responsible for communicating the asset class and values to the Credit team and ensuring that the overall risk profile of the prospective lessee is acceptable. The Business Development Manager also works with his/her customer base to ensure that any supplementary Meridian products are introduced on a direct basis to our clients and prospects
Key Responsibilities
- Acquires good quality and profitable equipment finance and lease transactions by identifying likely prospects and implementing an aggressive calling program within the assigned area
- Develops prospective equipment dealer accounts that have the highest potential of profitability; Identifies, structures, and closes leases and other equipment finance transactions with ONECAP prospects.
- Develops new leasing business independently, meeting with larger and more complex prospects in a designated region to a larger sales goal with an increasing emphasis on developing business from outside contacts.
- Makes prospect calls independently to sell leasing services and cross sell other Meridian products and services.
- Gathers prospect financial and general business information independently for larger and more complex accounts.
- Explains wide array of leasing alternatives and guides prospects to best choices based on leasing experience, understanding and individual prospect situations. Answers questions and follows up on information requests; compiles necessary information to begin financial analysis.
- Provides support and assistance to credit decision process and communicates credit decisions to Customers.
- Negotiates specific lease terms and conditions for more complex leases within parameters defined by credit decisions. Finalizes lease agreements with prospects and closes sales.
- Maintains regular contact with vendors who sell regular amounts of equipment, ensuring MOCC is given every opportunity to quote on
- client's equipment finance and lease requirements.
- Proactively assesses and clarifies client’s needs and wants and provides appropriate levels of service.
- Represents MOCC at appropriate industry and community functions when required.
- Establishes productive, professional relationships with key clients, both internally and externally.
- Monitors status of current lease portfolio to ensure conformity with terms; ensures necessary documentation is completed and forwarded for processing; supports Sales Coordinators as required to ensure documentation requirements are met with operations and processing areas to ensure lease payments are collected and
- recorded.
- Plans and collaborates cross functionally to achieve sales objectives.
- Prepares an annual business plan outlining objectives and strategies on how new business will be secured. Plan to be reviewed on a quarterly basis.
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing and promotions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Detailed knowledge of all aspects of equipment finance and leasing preferred - specifically with special emphasis on accounting, taxation, credit, pricing and security.
- Solid understanding of the leasing industry, competitors, pricing environment, security requirements and product offerings.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, financial analysis and credit structuring typically found in the Commercial Lending environment.
- Proficient understanding of lease accounting and tax implications from lessee and lessor perspective.
- Proficient understanding of financial theory of lease vs. buy analysis for modeling different finance structure options.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with client’s CFOs & Controllers as well as internal Bank staff such as VP's, Directors, Sales Directors, Administrative / Operations staff. Identifies and resolves moderately complex issues.
- High level of personal motivation, energy and drive.
- Accepts responsibility for positive end results.
- Collaborate style and persuasive interpersonal skills; ability to influence others.
- Expert sales/closing skills.
- Thorough knowledge of relationship building and teamwork skills
- Aptitude for mathematical functions including financial calculations.
- Proficient with Microsoft operating systems including Word, Excel, Outlook and the Internet.
This role represents an existing vacancy. Internal candidates are being considered as part of our standard process
Salary Range: CAD $79,100 - $118,700 annually
Compensation for this role is based on a combination of skills, experience, and internal equity. Candidates with stronger alignment to the role’s requirements may be placed higher within the range. Your recruiter will share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.
Office Location: Toronto Corporate Office. This is a hybrid opportunity
Meridian OneCap has a remote work policy that allows flexibility for employees to work remotely but also requires our employees to attend the office minimum one day per week. The intention is for purposeful meetings to collaborate, innovate and build effective relationships with your team, your colleagues and your leader which is important to us.
What's in it for you?
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
- We provide you with the tools and technology needed to delight your candidates and clients!
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top organizations around the world
- Hybrid work arrangements with in-person office time to collaborate, innovate and build relationships with your colleagues
- This isn't your typical "corporate" job. We work hard and we have fun!
Build the Future of Banking with Us
At Meridian, we’re not just adapting to the future—we’re shaping it. We see talent as a catalyst for sustainable growth , community impact , and future-readiness . As the financial landscape evolves, we’re looking for team members who bring:
- Embedding & leveraging technology – Confidence and willingness to learn and integrate AI and emerging technologies into new ways of working. Experience with low/no code tools like the Microsoft Power Platform and generative AI productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot is considered an asset
- Critical Thinking – The ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret information from various sources and apply logic and problem solving to make decisions.
- Data Driven – Leverage data and insights to identify, prioritize and improve member experience and business efficiency.
- Curiosity & Flexibility – Comfortable navigating and embracing change and uncertainty, ask more questions, explore more options. Continuously learn and grow.
Our Commitment To You
Meridian OneCap is committed to promoting an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to employing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities and Members in which we live and serve.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.
Please note that due to the volume of applications, only those under consideration will be contacted for an interview.
Thank you for your interest in Meridian OneCap.
Meridian only posts jobs on our official Careers Site, LinkedIn, and Indeed. If you find a Meridian job posting on any other site, please verify it by ensuring it directs back to our official career page. Meridian never asks candidates to apply through third‑party links that do not redirect to our Careers portal (UltiPro). For more tips on how to protect yourself from job scams visit Protect yourself from job scams | Meridian .
About Meridian Credit Union
The Meridian Experience!
A different employment experience Are you looking for an employer who shares your passion and enthusiasm? Do you want a job where you know you’re making a difference, every day you come to work? Do you want a challenging career with an organization that gives back to the community and whose employees embrace corporate social responsibility?
Consider Meridian as a way you can grow your career with us. Where you’ll be involved in local decision making, work hands-on in finding solutions for our Members, where everyone works together to achieve our personal and financial goals.
We’ll provide an inspirational environment that’s open and collaborative that empowers you to reach your professional goals and excel in the work of fulfilling our vision.
You’ll have an opportunity to develop strong, enduring and independent working relationships where long-term partnerships with our Members is a reality. We are committed to creating a highly engaged workforce; we believe it’s critical to our success.
As a company that puts people first. Meridian has always paid close attention to the rising cost of living and factored this into employee wages, which is why we are incredibly proud to be Ontario’s largest certified living wage employer. We pay all our employees, regardless of role, a living wage as calculated by the Ontario Living Wage Network. We believe that fair compensation for our employees translates to improved financial and overall well-being.
Business Development Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Who we are!
Meridian OneCap Credit Corp (MOC) is an equipment and finance company providing a broad range of financial services to businesses throughout Canada. Our parent, Meridian Credit Union, has over 70 years of banking history and is Ontario’s largest credit union.
MOC is a provider of asset financing in the form of capital leases. We are committed to being the best provider of specialized equipment financing services to strategic vendors across Canada. Our service-oriented culture and exceptional group of professionals serves to provide our strategic partners with value-added service and constructive solutions.
Meridian OneCap Credit Corp provides customized leasing solutions both to help companies sell equipment and to companies that have chosen to lease equipment, rather than buy. For manufacturers and vendors, we enable you to provide your customers with a value-added service that helps your customers acquire equipment efficiently and gives your company a competitive edge. And for the end user, we can help you to preserve working capital in your business, while benefiting now from the use of the equipment.
Our team is known as industry leaders. We’ve earned our reputation through consistent delivery of financing programs with the most efficient transaction process and superior customer service. With the largest direct sales force within the Canadian market, it’s no wonder our customer service is unparalleled.
About Meridian OneCap
The role:
The Business Development Manager is responsible for the marketing and sales of all products and services within a defined market area to targeted vendors and resellers of equipment that meet credit parameters.
The incumbent will be responsible for identifying and developing targeted vendors to provide programs that allow the vendor to maximize lease penetration to their customer base.
The focus of sales efforts will be on equipment finance and lease transactions up to but not limited to $250,000.The Business Development Manager’s expected volume target ranges from $5 to $20 million annually depending on his/her assigned territory.
The Business Development Manager is responsible for communicating the asset class and values to the Credit team and ensuring that the overall risk profile of the prospective lessee is acceptable. The Business Development Manager also works with his/her customer base to ensure that any supplementary Meridian products are introduced on a direct basis to our clients and prospects
Key Responsibilities
- Acquires good quality and profitable equipment finance and lease transactions by identifying likely prospects and implementing an aggressive calling program within the assigned area
- Develops prospective equipment dealer accounts that have the highest potential of profitability; Identifies, structures, and closes leases and other equipment finance transactions with ONECAP prospects.
- Develops new leasing business independently, meeting with larger and more complex prospects in a designated region to a larger sales goal with an increasing emphasis on developing business from outside contacts.
- Makes prospect calls independently to sell leasing services and cross sell other Meridian products and services.
- Gathers prospect financial and general business information independently for larger and more complex accounts.
- Explains wide array of leasing alternatives and guides prospects to best choices based on leasing experience, understanding and individual prospect situations. Answers questions and follows up on information requests; compiles necessary information to begin financial analysis.
- Provides support and assistance to credit decision process and communicates credit decisions to Customers.
- Negotiates specific lease terms and conditions for more complex leases within parameters defined by credit decisions. Finalizes lease agreements with prospects and closes sales.
- Maintains regular contact with vendors who sell regular amounts of equipment, ensuring MOCC is given every opportunity to quote on
- client's equipment finance and lease requirements.
- Proactively assesses and clarifies client’s needs and wants and provides appropriate levels of service.
- Represents MOCC at appropriate industry and community functions when required.
- Establishes productive, professional relationships with key clients, both internally and externally.
- Monitors status of current lease portfolio to ensure conformity with terms; ensures necessary documentation is completed and forwarded for processing; supports Sales Coordinators as required to ensure documentation requirements are met with operations and processing areas to ensure lease payments are collected and
- recorded.
- Plans and collaborates cross functionally to achieve sales objectives.
- Prepares an annual business plan outlining objectives and strategies on how new business will be secured. Plan to be reviewed on a quarterly basis.
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing and promotions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Detailed knowledge of all aspects of equipment finance and leasing preferred - specifically with special emphasis on accounting, taxation, credit, pricing and security.
- Solid understanding of the leasing industry, competitors, pricing environment, security requirements and product offerings.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, financial analysis and credit structuring typically found in the Commercial Lending environment.
- Proficient understanding of lease accounting and tax implications from lessee and lessor perspective.
- Proficient understanding of financial theory of lease vs. buy analysis for modeling different finance structure options.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with client’s CFOs & Controllers as well as internal Bank staff such as VP's, Directors, Sales Directors, Administrative / Operations staff. Identifies and resolves moderately complex issues.
- High level of personal motivation, energy and drive.
- Accepts responsibility for positive end results.
- Collaborate style and persuasive interpersonal skills; ability to influence others.
- Expert sales/closing skills.
- Thorough knowledge of relationship building and teamwork skills
- Aptitude for mathematical functions including financial calculations.
- Proficient with Microsoft operating systems including Word, Excel, Outlook and the Internet.
This role represents an existing vacancy. Internal candidates are being considered as part of our standard process
Salary Range: CAD $79,100 - $118,700 annually
Compensation for this role is based on a combination of skills, experience, and internal equity. Candidates with stronger alignment to the role’s requirements may be placed higher within the range. Your recruiter will share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.
Office Location: Toronto Corporate Office. This is a hybrid opportunity
Meridian OneCap has a remote work policy that allows flexibility for employees to work remotely but also requires our employees to attend the office minimum one day per week. The intention is for purposeful meetings to collaborate, innovate and build effective relationships with your team, your colleagues and your leader which is important to us.
What's in it for you?
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
- We provide you with the tools and technology needed to delight your candidates and clients!
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top organizations around the world
- Hybrid work arrangements with in-person office time to collaborate, innovate and build relationships with your colleagues
- This isn't your typical "corporate" job. We work hard and we have fun!
Build the Future of Banking with Us
At Meridian, we’re not just adapting to the future—we’re shaping it. We see talent as a catalyst for sustainable growth , community impact , and future-readiness . As the financial landscape evolves, we’re looking for team members who bring:
- Embedding & leveraging technology – Confidence and willingness to learn and integrate AI and emerging technologies into new ways of working. Experience with low/no code tools like the Microsoft Power Platform and generative AI productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot is considered an asset
- Critical Thinking – The ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret information from various sources and apply logic and problem solving to make decisions.
- Data Driven – Leverage data and insights to identify, prioritize and improve member experience and business efficiency.
- Curiosity & Flexibility – Comfortable navigating and embracing change and uncertainty, ask more questions, explore more options. Continuously learn and grow.
Our Commitment To You
Meridian OneCap is committed to promoting an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to employing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities and Members in which we live and serve.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.
Please note that due to the volume of applications, only those under consideration will be contacted for an interview.
Thank you for your interest in Meridian OneCap.
Meridian only posts jobs on our official Careers Site, LinkedIn, and Indeed. If you find a Meridian job posting on any other site, please verify it by ensuring it directs back to our official career page. Meridian never asks candidates to apply through third‑party links that do not redirect to our Careers portal (UltiPro). For more tips on how to protect yourself from job scams visit Protect yourself from job scams | Meridian .
About Meridian Credit Union
The Meridian Experience!
A different employment experience Are you looking for an employer who shares your passion and enthusiasm? Do you want a job where you know you’re making a difference, every day you come to work? Do you want a challenging career with an organization that gives back to the community and whose employees embrace corporate social responsibility?
Consider Meridian as a way you can grow your career with us. Where you’ll be involved in local decision making, work hands-on in finding solutions for our Members, where everyone works together to achieve our personal and financial goals.
We’ll provide an inspirational environment that’s open and collaborative that empowers you to reach your professional goals and excel in the work of fulfilling our vision.
You’ll have an opportunity to develop strong, enduring and independent working relationships where long-term partnerships with our Members is a reality. We are committed to creating a highly engaged workforce; we believe it’s critical to our success.
As a company that puts people first. Meridian has always paid close attention to the rising cost of living and factored this into employee wages, which is why we are incredibly proud to be Ontario’s largest certified living wage employer. We pay all our employees, regardless of role, a living wage as calculated by the Ontario Living Wage Network. We believe that fair compensation for our employees translates to improved financial and overall well-being.