SVP, Regional Executive, Retail Banking Position Available In Westchester, New York

Job Description:

Responsible for ensuring Banking Center leaders and their teamsare consistently performing their roles with excellence. You willalso cultivate positive working relationships with your peers,business partners, and the various departments that support RetailBanking, including Sales Effectiveness, Branch Administration,Human Resources, Deposit Operations, Marketing, Deposit Pricing,etc. Your leadership and ability to execute will enable Bank OZK toimprove every day. Essential Job Functions 1. Demonstrate a passionfor delivering excellence and creating a high performing, diverseteam that understands and enthusiastically embraces the Bank’svision, strategies, and goals, and wants to win together. 2. Meetregularly in person in your assigned offices to engage constantlyand actively with team members, observe and monitor performance,and coach Banking Center Managers to ever greater skill. 3.Successfully execute the Bank’s strategies and tactics for theregion. 4. Ensure business growth that meets the Bank’s standardsfor quality and profitability, customer satisfaction, andregulatory and operational compliance. 5. Support team members’client negotiations based on an understanding of the fundamentalsof banking and Bank OZK’s strategies. 6. Lead, coach, monitor, anddevelop your team to successfully execute against defined businessdevelopment goals, operational effectiveness, and servicestandards. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring your teamis performing daily huddles, client needs assessments, and otherRetail Sales Effectiveness processes according to establishedstandards. 7. Address team member development, coaching, andperformance matters in a timely and fair manner in collaborationwith Human Resources and in accordance with Bank OZK’s policies andguidelines. 8. Demonstrate accountability for businessdevelopment-related key performance indicators and goals, inaddition to new client growth, client expansion, exception pricingmitigation, fee waiver management, and other metrics as determinedby management. 9. Collaborate effectively with operational partnersto hold team members accountable to corporate operational standardsand effective internal controls. 10. Coordinate and createsynergies between multiple banking centers and line of businesspartners to focus on and achieve business objectives. 11.Anticipate and respond effectively to high pressure situations andan ever-changing banking environment constantly affected byeconomic cycles, labor market dynamics, technological advancements,regulatory changes, etc. 12. Monitor and analyze industry trends,competitive activity, and market changes to identify and keepsenior management aware of your region’s unique strengths,weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 13. Ensure engagement incommunity activities to demonstrate community involvement andsupport, facilitate Bank branding/name recognition, and promotebusiness development and recruitment efforts. 14. Identify,recruit, hire, and retain excellent talent to maintain a highlyeffective team. 15. Display a high degree of integrity,trustworthiness, professionalism, flexibility, and adaptability.16. Follow Bank policies, procedures, and guidelines to protectclients, employees, and bank assets. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities1. Knowledge of business development techniques in a retailenvironment. 2. Knowledge of retail banking or ability andwillingness to learn. 3. Ability to create and foster a pipeline oftalent and a culture of growth where high performing team memberssee and understand career development opportunities. 4. Ability todemonstrate a continuous focus on quality, profitability, andefficiency in the pursuit of business growth. 5. Ability to thinkstrategically and translate goals into actionable, detailed,day-to-day execution. 6. Ability to consistently deliverexceptional customer experiences. 7. Ability to effectively leadand manage all aspects of performance including people, operations,service, and business development. 8. Ability to demonstrate anunderstanding and belief that an individual’s attitude and aptitudeare the primary determinants of success. 9. Ability tostrategically place people in roles and on teams that enable themto be fully engaged, contributing their unique strengths, gifts,and experiences to their roles. 10. Ability to communicateeffectively both verbally and in writing. 11. Ability todemonstrate effective planning and organizational skills in adynamic business environment. 12. Ability to adhere to Bankpolicies and procedures. 13. Skill in using computer and MicrosoftOffice, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. BasicQualifications 1. Bachelor’s degree or commensurate work experiencerequired 2. 5 years of business development and retail leadershipexperience, preferably leading a minimum of 5-7 retail bankingbranches, required 3. Proven, consistent achievement of businessgrowth goals and financial targets required 4. Experience managing,leading, and coaching professionals required 5. Comprehensiveknowledge of bank products/services and regulations preferred 6.NMLS eligibility required; NMLS license preferred (required forlending activities)