Regional President Tennessee

Truist Bank•Nashville, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Regional President is responsible for the overall performance of the region, encompassing client service quality, balance sheet quality, profitability, growth, and risk management. This role acts as the Chief Integrator for all banking functions within the region, including Commercial, Consumer, and Wealth, along with other line of business partners, to ensure a consistent client experience at Truist. The Regional President serves as the executive-level representative of Truist within the region, addressing regional, market, and community requests and issues in collaboration with Corporate Communications. Specifically, the Regional President II role provides oversight of the largest regions, some of which are full states, within Commercial Banking. These regions feature multiple growth markets with distinct go-to-market strategies aimed at increasing market share. This position involves managing Sales Leaders who, in turn, lead Bankers across various segments such as Commercial, Middle Market, Not-for-Profit, and Government, with client revenue generation concentrations up to $500MM.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and/or related training.
10+ years or more of bank lending experience, specifically in the Commercial segment (or higher level segment such as Middle Market and Corporate & Investment Banking).
Demonstrated leadership experience managing large teams and indirectly managing multiple partners who play a key role in enabling and supporting the Bankers provide the best solutions to the clients (e.g. Credit Delivery, Operations, Treasury, etc.).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; this position is often asked to represent Truist as the senior-most leader within the Region at community events, client events, etc.
Ability to travel, occasionally overnight.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Advanced Degree with concentration in Finance
15+ Years managing Commercial and/or Middle Market Lenders that offer the most complex financial solutions (e.g. Capital Markets FX, Syndications, etc.)

Responsibilities

Assume overall responsibility for sales management for the region, optimizing resources and tools to enable sales leaders and teammates. This requires communicating Truist’s vision, setting clear expectations and consistently inspecting the quantity and quality of behaviors, driving accountability to create desired results, and building and/or growing the capabilities and skills of the team that serves to achieve expected goals and objectives.
Responsible for managing the overall financials of the region to maximize returns for the bank. Has primary responsibility for the profitability of the region as well as expense management. Responsible for controlling costs and optimizing spend within the region. Partners closely with the pricing partners to enhance our liability growth, costs and mix.
Ensure a differentiated, valued experience is provided to clients through effective execution of Truist’s go-to-market strategy. Integrate all partners to ensure client needs are being met and service quality is a top priority; key partnerships across the Bank include: Business Banking, Retail (branches), Wealth, Capital Markets and Investment Banking, Insurance Holdings, and Mortgage. In addition, leveraging key partners such as Industry Consultants, Corporate Finance Consultants, Credit, Treasury and other Payment Services as well as Operations to understand clients needs, identify the best solutions for the client and service their ongoing needs (a.k.a. “Chief Integrator”).
Manage all HR-related aspects of teammates within the region to include performance coaching and feedback, compensation alignment by role, capability and skill set growth, hiring talent, addressing underperformance and taking action to include termination as necessary. Responsible for maintaining the appropriate staffing levels to ensure that client needs are met and creating a culture and work environment of inclusion and one that enables teammates to perform their best work.
Responsible for setting clear expectations and tone regarding Truist’s Credit Culture. Ensure that all teammates are aware of Truist Loan Policies and they are followed consistently by every member of the team with an emphasis on data integrity and overall risk management.
Partner with Credit Delivery to ensure that key loan portfolio goals of profitability, quality, safety, liquidity, growth and productivity are met.
Actively involved with Community Advisory Boards to ensure that board members are leveraged in the most efficient way for the Bank and that these boards contain the proper representatives from the community.
Acts as the primary contact between the Region and Truist’s Executive Leadership Team as this is the most senior leader in the Region and the voice of Truist; partners directly with Corporate Communications for proactive and reactive bank messaging as needed.

Benefits

medical
dental
vision
life insurance
disability
accidental death and dismemberment
tax-preferred savings accounts
401k plan
no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment
10 sick days (also prorated)
paid holidays
defined benefit pension plan (depending on the position and division)
restricted stock units (depending on the position and division)
deferred compensation plan (depending on the position and division)