Job Purpose & Scope

In this role, you will provide excellent leadership, management, and coaching within your local market to achieve Bank OZK’s strategic goals. You will contribute your unique talents, skills, and experiences to cultivate, maintain, and strengthen relationships within the community and among team members. You will lead your team and our bank to get better every day, in every way.

Essential Job Functions

• Execute strategic and tactical plans to manage business development productivity and portfolio quality, and to meet financial targets

• Identify, prioritize, and develop strategies for high-value retention, expansion, and acquisition of customer relationships by delivering knowledgeable advice and solutions

• Engage relevant business and bank partners in team-based customer development with expert delivery

• Leverage local market networks and centers of influence to identify, prospect, and pursue business opportunities to hit market goals

• Display a high degree of integrity, trustworthiness, and professionalism at all times

• Embrace Bank OZK’s core lending tenets of asset quality, profitability, and then growth

• Manage team members, including daily supervision, interviewing and hiring, mentoring and training, performance appraisals, career development, promotion and pay recommendations, and separations of direct reports

• Model talent development skills to facilitate strong employee engagement

• Enthusiastically support and model the bank’s values and mission

• Regularly exercise discretion and judgment in the performance of essential job functions

• Maintain consistently good punctuality and attendance to work

• Follow Bank OZK policy, procedures and guidelines to protect customers and bank assets

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of the community and commercial banking market, including customer needs, competitive landscape, and regulatory environment

• Knowledge of bank regulations, policies, and procedures

• Ability to act as an innovative, insightful, and visionary leader with strong observation skills and attention to detail, capable of leading a team to success

• Ability to demonstrate a strong entrepreneurial spirit and positive reputation in the local market and among peers

• Ability to build and grow successful customer relationships

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, including strong persuasion and negotiation skills

• Ability to manage, lead, mentor, and train team members effectively, inspiring them to meet business objectives

• Ability to act as a team-oriented leader, capable of managing and thriving in a continually changing environment

• Ability to work effectively and efficiently both as part of a team and independently, while demonstrating effective interpersonal skills with all levels of management and with internal and external stakeholders

• Ability to demonstrate effective strategic, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to demonstrate effective organization and prioritization skills, attention to detail, and a strong sense of urgency, initiative, and drive to achieve goals and objectives

• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of integrity and commitment to uphold the Bank's values, culture, and reputation

• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• Ability to travel overnight, as needed.

• Skill in using computer and Microsoft Office applications necessary to perform essential job functions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or related field, or commensurate work experience, required

• 5+ years business development and leadership experience in a financial institution required

• 7+ years lending work experience, involving strong credit acumen, required

• Proven, consistent achievement of business development goals and financial targets required

• Solid experience managing, leading and coaching professionals required

• Comprehensive knowledge of bank products/services, lending/fair lending, collateral management, and regulations required

• NMLS, or successful completion of NMLS process within 45 days of hire, required

Job Expectations

Job Expectations: O perate customary equipment and technology used in a business environment, with or without accommodation.

Note: This description is not an exhaustive list of all job functions, duties, skills, and job standards required. Other job functions, duties, skills, and standards may be added. Management reserves the right to add or change the job requirements at any time.

EEO Statement

Bank OZK is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local law. Member FDIC.