About Us:

Built on a legacy of more than 100 years in banking, we pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence, exceptional client service, and year-after-year recognition of our industry leading financial performance. Uniquely positioned with our own internal Fintech team, we create and offer innovative personal and business banking solutions.

We are dedicated to building community and strive to help our clients succeed financially. By helping to facilitate financial stability for our clients, we positively impact their lives and support families and our communities. We are socially responsible. We also aspire to foster a productive and enriching work environment for our team members. When our clients and team members thrive, we achieve success for our bank.

About You:

Being the best bank for our clients and team members begins with outstanding talent that possesses and displays the following attributes:

• Accomplished executive leader with proven business development management expertise
• Enthusiastic leader who executes market strategies to seize opportunities for business growth
• Strategic thinker who can translate regional goals into actionable, detailed, day-to-day execution plans for our team members
• Demonstrated ability to ensure repeatable sales processes are consistently executed
• An outstanding coach with proven record of building strong sales teams
• Tenacious focus on the delivery of an exceptional client experience
• Demonstrated ability to inspire team members to meet business objectives
• Passionate about the successful delivery of Bank OZK’s value proposition
• Expert, influential communicator and negotiator

Your Role:

In this role, you will deliver superior business growth results as you shape a progressive business development culture for our growth-oriented community bank. You will contribute your unique talents, skills and experiences to role model and coach relationship building skills, setting high levels of accountability with team members. You will cultivate, maintain and strengthen relationships with community bank leadership, actively promoting cross-company partnership and teamwork. You will lead your team and our bank to get better every day.

• Execute strategic and tactical plans to ensure market growth and client retention targets are met
• Ensure weekly business development activities are completed and reinforce them with active, ongoing role modeling and coaching
• Generate organic deposit growth and assist with deposit pricing negotiations that support Bank OZK’s NIM and efficiency goals
• Lead, coach and develop multiple Banking Center Managers and/or Business Development Officers to successfully execute against defined business development goals and service standards
• Demonstrate accountability for business development-related key performance indicators (goals), in addition to new client growth, client expansion, exception pricing mitigation, fee waiver management, and other metrics as determined by management
• Coordinate and create synergies between multiple banking centers and business partners to focus on and achieve business objectives
• Lead by example and be a change agent to help banking center team members evolve to meet shifting client needs and demands
• Enthusiastically embrace, support and model the bank’s values and mission
• Drive high performance through coaching and role-modeling
• Model talent development skills and business development skills to facilitate strong employee engagement
• Identify and recruit talent and build a highly effective team
• Display a high degree of integrity, trustworthiness, and professionalism at all times
• Follow Bank policy, procedures, and guidelines to protect clients and bank assets

Job Expectations:

Ability to operate normal and customary equipment/technology used in a business environment, with or without accommodation

Note: This description is not an exhaustive list of all job responsibilities, skills and standards required. Other job responsibilities, skills, and standards may be added. Management reserves the right to add or change the job requirements at any time.

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