Assistant Branch Manager

Leads a branch team in delivering the Bank’s brand promise and in meeting the Bank’s business objectives. Serves as a leader, coach, and role model for team members in developing new customer relationships, solidifying existing customer relationships and delivering high-quality customer experiences. Achieves assigned sales goals. Ensures efficient and effective branch operations.

Essential Functions

• Coaches, manages, and trains team members to deliver high-quality sales and service experiences consistently in the Bank’s branches.
• Consistently employs the Bank’s sales management practices: new customer onboarding, lobby leadership, huddles, white boards, coaching, and sales team meetings.
• Motivates team members to achieve assigned sales goals.
• Serves as a role model for team members and colleagues in the delivery of the Bank’s brand promise and values.
• Develops and maintains strong knowledge across the full range of products and services that the Bank has to offer.
• Develops solid understanding of the assigned branch market. Prospects and identifies opportunities for new business. Monitors and communicates local competitive activities.
• Leads branch team in executing effective operational and quality control to provide high-quality, efficient customer service, ensure compliance, and risk mitigation, by following established policies and procedures and making sound business decisions.
• Partners with various lines of businesses across the bank to identify opportunities for new business banking relationships. Manages relationships with business banking customers in partnership with Treasury Management and Commercial Banking.
• Identifies opportunities for consumer mortgage relationships and presents quality leads to Mortgage Officers.
• Identifies opportunities for Wealth Management relationships and presents quality leads to Wealth Advisors.
• Represents the Bank within the community. Identifies and participates in community and business events for increasing awareness of and interest in Burke & Herbert Bank. Participates in Bank sponsored activities and events, including evening management meetings and weekend functions.
• Solves complex customer servicing issues and handles difficult customers effectively.
• Mentors and develops team of branch representatives with varying skill sets and experience (Tellers, Relationship Bankers) to achieve service, sales and operational excellence. Ensures effective team member communication. Identifies and supports training and development opportunities. Provides ongoing coaching, prepares performance evaluations and take disciplinary actions.
• Attends educational functions, classes, and learning/development sessions as assigned by Senior Management.
• The duties of this position must be performed from the physical branch or bank location in order to best service the needs of the customers or support the Bank facilities.
  
  

Skills/Abilities

• Strong coaching, motivational, and training skills focusing on sales, service and operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Proven commitment in meeting the established sales goals.
• Proven sales experience to include developing strong business and consumer relationships.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Ability to resolve problems effectively and efficiently.
• Strong ability to handle difficult customers.
• Proven leader in CRM usage and adapting to technology updates.
• Detail oriented with minimal CIP errors.

Education and Experience

• High School or Equivalent
• Two plus years preferred of commercial branch banking experience as a Relationship Banker.
• Microsoft Office and Internet Skills.

Supervisory Responsibility
This position has supervisory responsibilities.

Salary Grade = 7

Work Environment

This job operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Office environment with job duties conducted via telephone, face-to-face meetings, and on the computer.

Physical Demands
This position requires manual dexterity, ability to lift files and opening cabinets, bending, stooping or standing as necessary.

Travel
Travel may be required for this position.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity/M/F/disability/protected veteran status.