VP, Commercial Team Leader
About The Position
The VP, Commercial Team Leader will manage a team of lenders and support staff, ensuring the team generates new business, effectively manages the portfolio, and adheres to credit, compliance, and operational policies. This role involves supervising the group to ensure adherence to bank policies and procedures, providing leadership aligned with the bank's direction and cultures, and approving loans within appropriate authority. The Team Leader will also be responsible for meeting budgetary goals and completing assigned projects. Additionally, the role focuses on developing new business opportunities through client solicitation, industry involvement, and expanding the existing client base, ensuring proper underwriting, financial analysis, and due diligence for all originated loans. The Team Leader will also work with the team to increase deposits and generate non-interest fee income. A key responsibility is the ongoing maintenance and customer service of an assigned loan portfolio, monitoring credit quality, assessing relationships, and completing annual credit reviews. Accurate data collection for portfolio status tracking is also required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Minimum of 10+ years of commercial lending and underwriting/portfolio management experience
- Understand the commercial marketplace within the Bank’s target area
- Be well-versed with the Bank’s credit policy and guidelines
- Have familiarity with other products and services offered by the Bank, for cross-selling purposes
- Ability to communicate effectively in both an oral and written capacity
Nice To Haves
- Leadership experience preferred
- Consistently demonstrate behaviors associated with Brookline Bancorp’s Core Four values: adaptability, accountability, leadership, and teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Supervise lenders and support staff to ensure adherence to bank policies and procedures.
- Provide leadership and instill the Bank’s Core Four and credit cultures.
- Approve and recommend loans within appropriate authority that are adequately structured and bear acceptable risk.
- Ensure budgetary goals are met.
- Develop new business opportunities through business development efforts, including new client solicitation, industry organization involvement, and expansion of existing client base.
- Ensure all loans originated within the team are properly underwritten with appropriate financial analysis and due diligence.
- Ensure loans are booked with proper documentation and post-approval due diligence is completed satisfactorily.
- Work with the team to increase deposits from clients and generate non-interest fee income.
- Manage the ongoing maintenance and customer service of an assigned loan portfolio.
- Oversee the management of loans assigned within the group.
- Monitor the ongoing credit quality of the portfolio and assess the credit quality of each relationship in accordance with policy.
- Complete annual credit reviews and ensure the accuracy of risk ratings.
- Ensure the accurate collection of data to track/monitor the status of the portfolio.
- Assume any other duties as may be required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
