Anticipating opening - Small Business Banking, Business Development Area Manager in Greater San Fran

This is a posting for an anticipated opening for Business Development Area Manager in our Small Business Banking division covering the greater San Francisco / Bay Area:

San Francisco
San Rafael
San Mateo
San Jose
Hayward
Oakland
Fremont
Palo Alto


Be a part of our success story.  Washington Mutual offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to do the best work of their lives in a dynamic and growing company. Through competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, internal advancement opportunities, and nationally recognized community involvement, you’ll have the chance to create a career you can be proud of. Your success story starts here.


Join our dynamic team and help build the future of Small Business Banking with WaMu as a Business Development Area Manager in support of the Small Business banking division.  In our exciting and rapidly growing organization, be responsible for coaching your Business Development Officers to enhance and expand relationships with current and new clients with the sales of WaMu Small Business products and services.

This position requires a mastery of small business relationship building, sales and sales management, and strategic planning.  The work involves applying Small Business banking objectives to your assigned sales area to develop effective strategies for your team of Business Development Officers to achieve their sales and performance goals.  Design and implement a strategic business plan to identify your prospects, tactics, and methodologies to build a successful Small Business banking organization. 


Essential Functions:
o Work closely with Market Manager to design and implement an overall sales and development strategy for attracting small business clients within the assigned Area, including sales targets, new customer acquisition rates, customer services levels, etc.
o Build, develop, and coach a team of effective Business Development Officers, managing their activities and overall performance against established sales and productivity goals.
o Demonstrate expertise in a variety of business development practices.
o Ensure effective partnership with Strategic Partners in assigned Area.
o Provide appropriate oversight to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations affecting your span of control.




This posting is used to express general interest in future opportunities and will expire on 09/15/06. Submit your profile by clicking on the link below and you will join our employment database. If you have not been contacted by 10/07/06 and would like to be considered for additional opportunities, please search our website and apply for current openings.



 

Requirements:

o  Demonstrated excellence in business relationship-building skills
o  Successful track record in developing and leading a relationship-management team
o  4 + years of Business Banking / Financial Services relationship management experience
o  Demonstrated results in development and execution of strategy to build sales and successful business relationships
o  Master's Degree preferred; Bachelor's Degree required (or the equivalent combination of experience and education that demonstrates the ability to perform the essential functions of the job)
o  Travel time required is approximately 60%+

 

 

Please note:  This position is intended for individuals with 5+ years experience managing teams of business developement officers.  If you have business development experience but not 5+ years of team management, please consider our other anticipated opening:
Business Development Officer

 


Washington Mutual is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Anyone needing accommodation to complete the interview process should notify the recruiter.