Regional President

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Accountable for the growth of the Corporate Banking and Commercial Real Estate businesses (portfolio size and health, P-L, customer metrics, etc.) and the expansion of the entire Region as a whole by creating and managing high-level sales and business development plans for the team.
• Responsible for recruiting and retaining high caliber staff in the local market including training, performance evaluations, and professional development of team members and provides ongoing management of business development and relationship management activities.
• Establishes and manages the strategic direction of the Region with guidance from Management. Implements the strategic direction of the region through the regional sales plan and target segment focus.
• Reviews teams account plans and supports their business development activities, as needed. Manages team sales pipeline, including pipeline reviews and provides ongoing coaching and problem-solving support to team members, helping them achieve their goals.
• Actively engage in business development activities such as developing strategic referral sources, managing local marketing plans, and joining team for customer meetings as needed.
• Responsible for the health of Region's portfolio through ongoing oversight of the credit approval and monitoring process, working with Credit Partners to manage all credit activities Assist with risk mitigation discussions at the request of the Chief Leadership. Approves credit requests within his/her credit approval authority level and reviews credit submissions to credit committee.

Qualifications Required Skills:

• Ability to drive key process improvements and effectively manage priorities and ambiguity as the driver of company's vision and mission. Community involvement.
• Strategic perspective in all interactions and decisions. Analytical ability needed to identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Decisive and effective negotiator with excellent leadership and management abilities. Excellent communications skills - verbal, written and interpersonal.
• Talent and brand builder - Builds relationships based on trust and respect. Promotes the inclusion of diverse knowledge, skills, and experiences to achieve results.
• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Must be organized in order to work with large amounts of financial data.
• Proactively seeks ways to improve personal and organizational effectiveness to meet current and future business needs. Learns equally from successes and failures.
• Depth and breadth of knowledge in company and industry
• Knowledge of economic and financial services industry, to include banking and lending. Knowledge of banking and regulatory compliance policies and procedures with a thorough understanding of business processes, business strategy and operations.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and should have advanced knowledge of Excel.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 15 years commercial banking, credit and lending experience.
• Master's degree preferred.