Director

Bank of Montreal•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

BMO’s Diversified Food Director position is a key lead on deal teams, collaborating and generating solutions to current and prospective clients within sector markets. As a sector and deal structuring expert, the Director will assist in generating significant revenue by developing and implementing a sales marketing plan for the West Coast market and working with our DIG team to grow the market, actively managing business development opportunities, and overseeing ongoing monitoring of client portfolio performance to maximize penetration and return. The Director achieves various partnering efforts, including management of the team and client initiatives, to ensure successful transactions. Food, Consumer and Agribusiness lending experience required. Facilitates growth for the Bank through business development and management of key client relationships. Maintains an outstanding and continuous record of significant revenue generation from sales and syndications. Acts as an escalation point for complex client issues, using strategic problem-solving to resolve conflicts and maintaining strong client relationships. Leads the structuring of high-value, complex deals, and credit approvals, ensuring alignment with client needs. Oversees credit approvals and drives pricing coordination, acting as the primary client advocate to ensure alignment with client needs and bank objectives. Drives negotiations for high-value, complex transactions and credit approvals, ensuring deals are structured to meet client needs. Manages high-value client portfolios, driving cross-selling, retention, and profitability. Implements cross-selling initiatives, driving client engagement and successfully transitioning opportunities into revenue-generating sales. Leads market coverage strategies to expand portfolios, identify opportunities, and align with business goals. Represents bank at industry forums and conferences, leveraging insights on trends, competition, and emerging products to drive strategic decision-making. Engages with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align strategies, address client needs, and drive holistic business solutions. Delivers reports to the bank’s leadership on team performance, client satisfaction, market trends, and key strategic initiatives, delivering insights that inform corporate strategy. Drives strategic advisory on loan products, options, rates, terms, and collateral requirements, ensuring tailored solutions that align with client needs and business objectives. Builds and maintains strong long-term relationships with the bank’s high-value and strategic clients, providing strategic advice on financial solutions and ensuring exceptional service and partnership. Structures deals, secures credit approvals, negotiates high-value transactions, and identifies opportunities for cross-selling. Analyzes market trends, client industry developments, and competitive positioning to inform client solution strategies and optimize client satisfaction. Works closely with internal teams and stakeholders to define products, solutions and strategies that best fit clients’ needs. Identifies share of wallet opportunities. Leverages analysis tools to nurture and grow a portfolio that exceeds ROE thresholds and evaluates client returns on a proactive basis. Ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, and compliance policies in all aspects of relationship management, mitigating risk and maintaining service standards. Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do. Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion. Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through. Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders. Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent. Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance. Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders. Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine. Implements changes in response to shifting trends. Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience in Relationship Management, Account Management or Portfolio Management in a corporate or similar segmented banking environment with sales metrics is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree required; Business Administration, Finance and Accounting preferred. Any other related discipline or commensurate work experience considered.
If a Credit Qualifiable role, Credit Qualifications and associated credit knowledge and skills according to the credit portfolio requirements and qualification standards.
Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience and industry knowledge.
Advanced level of proficiency: Project Management Change Management People Management
Expert level of proficiency: Product Knowledge Regulatory Compliance Structuring Deals Portfolio Management Credit Risk Assessment Customer Service Stakeholder Management Negotiation Customer Relationship Building
Food, Consumer and Agribusiness lending experience required.

Responsibilities

Generating solutions to current and prospective clients within sector markets.
Developing and implementing a sales marketing plan for the West Coast market
Actively managing business development opportunities
Overseeing ongoing monitoring of client portfolio performance to maximize penetration and return
Management of the team and client initiatives, to ensure successful transactions
Facilitates growth for the Bank through business development and management of key client relationships.
Maintains an outstanding and continuous record of significant revenue generation from sales and syndications.
Acts as an escalation point for complex client issues, using strategic problem-solving to resolve conflicts and maintaining strong client relationships.
Leads the structuring of high-value, complex deals, and credit approvals, ensuring alignment with client needs.
Oversees credit approvals and drives pricing coordination, acting as the primary client advocate to ensure alignment with client needs and bank objectives.
Drives negotiations for high-value, complex transactions and credit approvals, ensuring deals are structured to meet client needs.
Manages high-value client portfolios, driving cross-selling, retention, and profitability.
Implements cross-selling initiatives, driving client engagement and successfully transitioning opportunities into revenue-generating sales.
Leads market coverage strategies to expand portfolios, identify opportunities, and align with business goals.
Represents bank at industry forums and conferences, leveraging insights on trends, competition, and emerging products to drive strategic decision-making.
Engages with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align strategies, address client needs, and drive holistic business solutions.
Delivers reports to the bank’s leadership on team performance, client satisfaction, market trends, and key strategic initiatives, delivering insights that inform corporate strategy.
Drives strategic advisory on loan products, options, rates, terms, and collateral requirements, ensuring tailored solutions that align with client needs and business objectives.
Builds and maintains strong long-term relationships with the bank’s high-value and strategic clients, providing strategic advice on financial solutions and ensuring exceptional service and partnership.
Structures deals, secures credit approvals, negotiates high-value transactions, and identifies opportunities for cross-selling.
Analyzes market trends, client industry developments, and competitive positioning to inform client solution strategies and optimize client satisfaction.
Works closely with internal teams and stakeholders to define products, solutions and strategies that best fit clients’ needs.
Identifies share of wallet opportunities.
Leverages analysis tools to nurture and grow a portfolio that exceeds ROE thresholds and evaluates client returns on a proactive basis.
Ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, and compliance policies in all aspects of relationship management, mitigating risk and maintaining service standards.
Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
Implements changes in response to shifting trends.
Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Benefits

BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

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