Regional President

Position Summary
The Regional President is a senior executive and the community ambassador for the Busey brand within the region. Directly leading commercial lending while working directly with wealth management sales teams, the Regional President is responsible for the profitability and growth of Commercial and Wealth management businesses within the region and works to ensure full collaboration and coordination between Commercial, Wealth and all other Busey activities. The Regional President also works closely with centralized areas such as Service Support to identify efficient and effective ways to deliver an excellent customer experience, ensuring risk management and compliance expectations are achieved within the region.

Duties & Responsibilities

With a focus on well-capitalized business and individuals, the Regional President will generate revenue within the region leveraging the holistic growth/sales model as defined within centralized services through:

Effectively communicating goals and objectives internally and externally so that customer satisfaction is maintained at high levels and the group/division business objectives are attained.

Maintaining high Associate Engagement and Customer Net Promoter Scores within region

Identify ways to enhance products and service delivery; collaborates with other regions and functional areas to develop and implement such improvements.

Actively engages and shows leadership in the community through various networking events; attend various community events as a representative of the Bank.

Cultivating leadership and open communication within the region through calls, holistic sales team meetings, sharing of relevant information in order to enhance the standards of Service

Excellence in order to anticipate and exceed the needs of our customers, both internal and external.
Directly manages Regional Commercial leaders; Wealth Management sales teams have an indirect reporting line to the Regional President.
Responsible for achieving the Region's financial revenue, expense, portfolio growth, regulatory compliance and risk management goals:

Follow global risk, credit and compliance parameters of the company, as well as other corporate policies and expectations.

Responsible for management and risk reporting together with analysis for executive review and action.
Sets performance standards, manages workflow, grants authorities, evaluates performance, and recommends personnel actions within delegated authorities.
Promotes and facilitates frequent communications with Regional staff across all LOBs and Support areas.
Manages associates through effective organization of resources and a sound planning process.

Provides consistent direction to enhance achievement of the bank and regional goals while encouraging and developing a marketing focus for the Region.
Responsible for the performance of the Commercial Loan and Deposit portfolios; develops new Commercial and Wealth business via client interaction with existing and prospective customers.

Education & Experience

Knowledge of:

Banking and lending strategies
Terms and conditions of federal lending laws
Retail, mortgage and community banking products and services
Treasury management products and offerings
Ability to:

Proven business development, marketing, and sales skills, with a demonstrated ability to turn a perceived problem into a sales opportunity.
Demonstrated ability to develop, manage and motivate associates to achieve a high level of customer service and satisfaction, as well as sales activity that meets and/or exceeds overall business objectives.
Develop new procedures and approaches to solve problems.
Make independent decisions for which there are not always precedents.
Take reasonable care to prevent loss to the organization.
Education and Training:

Requires a 4-year college degree Finance, Economics or Business Management.
Requires 7 or more years of lending, credit and leadership experience.
Requires knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Compensation and Benefits


Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.


(Base Pay Range: $305,000 - $370,000 annually)


Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being-now and in the years to come-are important to us. Busey's Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.


Equal Opportunity


Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey's commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey's Equal Opportunity Employment.


Unsolicited Resumes


Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.