Branch Expansion Execution Leader - Carolinas

0101 The Huntington National Bank; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington Bank is seeking a Branch Expansion Execution Leader to own the enterprise framework for preparing, launching, and stabilizing new branch locations. You will train leaders, coach teams in-market, and coordinate with regional and enterprise partners to accelerate growth and market execution.

The role emphasizes readiness, performance, and risk management, with travel up to 50% and a office-based workplace.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in retail banking leadership or sales management.
• Experience leading execution across multiple markets or large geographies.
• Willingness to travel approximately 50% across Huntington footprint.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the enterprise branch expansion execution framework and readiness standards.
• Provide advanced leadership training for new branch execution and readiness.
• Coach local leaders on readiness, meetings, routines, and performance expectations.
• Monitor growth, pipeline activity, and market readiness; intervene when gaps emerge.
• Align Retail with Business Banking, Mortgage, Wealth, Insurance, Marketing, and community partners.
• Uphold risk ownership with strong branch operations and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Leadership experience

Market leadership

Travel readiness

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

The Branch Expansion Execution Leader is part of the Retail Enablement and Execution team and owns Huntington's enterprise framework for preparing, launching, and stabilizing newly built branch locations. This leader works directly with regional, district, branch, and market leadership teams to build the capability, partnerships, routines, and field execution required to accelerate consumer and business household growth. Through hand-on training and coaching before, during, and after launch, the role brings expectations to life while preparing local leaders to assume full ownership of long-term performance, risk, and market execution.

Duties and Responsibilities

Expansion Strategy & Readiness

Own and continuously improve Huntington's enterprise branch expansion execution framework, including readiness standards, launch expectations, tools, routines, and measures of success. Lead market readiness and alignment with Regional Presidents, Retail Regional Managers, District Managers, Branch Managers, Physical Distribution, and key enterprise partners. Identify readiness gaps, clarify ownership, and drive actions required to prepare the leadership team, branch colleagues, and market for launch.

Leadership Training & Capability Building

Serve as the subject-matter expert for new branch execution and provide advanced training that prepares leaders and colleagues to build a customer base from the ground up. Partner with Onboarding and Development to shape differentiated learning, reinforce required training, validate practical readiness, and address capability gaps. Train and coach local leaders on readiness and partner meetings, differentiated leadership routines, performance expectations, and ongoing colleague development.

In-market Execution & Coaching

Provide hand-on field leadership before, during, and after launch, working knee to knee with teams to demonstrate expectations and turn strategy into consistent behaviors. Coach and model prospecting, cold calling, community engagement, centers-of-influence development, business outreach, joint calling, pipeline management, and local brand building. Observe execution, provide real-time feedback, remove barriers, and establish clear actions and accountability with regional, district, branch, and market leaders.

Growth, Stabilization & Transition

Monitor early consumer and business household growth, pipeline activity, partner engagement, leadership routines, and execution against the market growth plan. Lead targeted intervention when readiness or performance gaps emerges and apply field insights to strengthen future branch expansion strategies. Maintain focused support through the defined stabilization period and transition primary execution ownership to local leadership once sustainable routines and capability are established.

Partner & Community Activation

Align Retail with Business Banking, Mortgage, Wealth, Insurance, Marketing, Community Development, Physical Distribution, and other partners around shared market opportunities and ownership. Prepare teams to build relationships with small businesses, employers, centers of influence, local organizations, and community partners that support household growth and market awareness. Capture and share best practices across the Retail Enablement and Execution team and the broader branch expansion portfolio.

Risk Ownership & Operational Excellence

Reinforce that everyone owns risk through strong branch operations, adherence to policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, and customer-focused conduct. Incorporate risk and control expectations into readiness, training, coaching, and field execution; identify and elevate gaps as appropriate. Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years' proven leadership experience in retail banking, sales management, market growth, or a related field.
• Experience leading execution, developing leaders, and driving results across multiple markets or large geographies.
• Ability to travel approximately 50% across the Huntington footprint, including extended in-market engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and coaching skills with the ability to influence across levels and functions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change, build capability, and drive adoption through hand-on field engagement.
• Strong operational acumen and deep understanding of retail banking sales, service, consumer growth, business banking, and risk management.
• Experience launching new branches, entering new markets, or leading market growth and community activation strategies.
• Ability to manage multiple launches, competing priorities, and tight deadlines in a collaborative environment.

Exempt Status

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay) Yes

Workplace Type

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Welcome to Huntington! At Huntington, we look out for people. From reinventing banking with game‑changing innovations to building an internal culture that creates lifelong bonds, together, we can make people’s lives better. And amazing things happen when we look out for each other. We prove it every day. Whether it’s helping a colleague or collaborating on a new tool that will revolutionize the way we save money, our actions can have a huge impact. Our colleagues look out for people with a Can‑Do Attitude, Service Heart and Forward Thinking. Those are our values simple but powerful. Each of them pushes us do the right thing, to do right by people. Because people are what matter. If that sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply to join our team. If you’d like to learn more about how Huntington looks out for people, visit https://www.huntington.com/lookingout

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