According to his LinkedIn page, Bartle spent over seven years as senior product and pricing manager with LBG, after working as pricing development manager for HBOS and management accountant at Yorkshire Building Society. Bartle has also worked as an auditor at big four accountancy firm KPMG.
Jaedon Green, Leeds Building Society’s director of product and distribution, said: “I am delighted to make this appointment and welcome Matt to Leeds Building Society’s product team.
“Our ability to attract talented individuals, such as Matt, is testament to the pace of growth and transformation at Leeds Building Society. It also illustrates the ambition which remains.”
Bartle added: “I am really excited to be joining the Society at a time of such rapid change both within and external to the business.”
Last month Leeds announced that Martese Carton would replace Louisa Sedgwick as head of intermediary distribution from mid-September. Carton will join the society from Natwest where she is currently working her notice period as senior corporate account manager.