Community Business Development Manager - Commercial Relationships
About The Position
As a Business Development Manager on the Community and Business Development team, you will guide regional and national community opportunities for commercial clients and partners. You will manage a portfolio across government, higher education, healthcare, nonprofit, and middle market relationships, adapting coverage as priorities evolve. Working with colleagues across the firm, you will translate partner needs into engagement plans with measurable outcomes and provide disciplined progress tracking and executive-ready updates. The role supports stronger trust, deeper engagement, and expanded access to financial health capabilities. The position involves building and growing relationships that broaden meaningful community engagement across key commercial sectors, and connecting partners to resources and programs for employees, students, and community stakeholders. You will collaborate across the firm to turn shared priorities into measurable outcomes. Travel of up to 75% is required.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of business development experience in at least one of these sectors: government, middle market, higher education, healthcare, or nonprofit.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and align outcomes to observable behaviors and commitments.
- Ability to create clear, executive-level summaries, updates, and presentations.
- Ability to operate independently and manage competing priorities in a matrixed environment.
- Relationship management skills, including building engagement plans with partner entities and internal stakeholders.
- Coaching and collaboration skills, including the ability to partner effectively across functions to lead adoption and execution.
- Ability to travel up to 75%.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing national portfolios and executing engagement plans that scale across sectors, geographies, or partner types.
- Experience deploying financial health education programs, workforce financial wellness initiatives, or community-based capability-building programs with internal delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of commercial relationships across government, higher education, healthcare, nonprofit, and middle market sectors.
- Develop and maintain holistic engagement plans that align goals, resources, and measurable outcomes with partner entities.
- Monitor progress against engagement objectives and provide clear, consistent, executive-ready updates.
- Identify, assess, and prioritize opportunities to deepen engagement with sector-aligned banking teams and internal stakeholders.
- Translate partner needs into actionable engagement strategies and coordinated execution plans.
- Collaborate with financial health coaches and community managers to expand the reach and effectiveness of financial health workshops and education programming.
- Recommend scalable solutions and repeatable operating practices supporting community and business development priorities.
- Lead cross-functional coordination to ensure timely execution and strong follow-through in a matrixed environment.
- Represent the firm with high integrity and strengthen trust through measurable community outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
