Branch Leader: Growth, Service & Team Excellence

First Mid Bank & Trust; Effingham (IL); On-site; USD 51,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO & holidays

Tuition reimbursement & bonuses

Job summary

First Mid Bancshares, Inc. seeks a Branch Manager in Effingham, IL to lead daily operations, drive sales and deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will supervise staff, manage budgets, and ensure compliance while fostering community relationships.

The role emphasizes coaching, process improvement, and cross-team collaboration to achieve branch goals and foster client loyalty. A strong background in retail banking and leadership is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Associate's degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of sales management experience with a proven track record of driving sales, both individually and as a leader of a sales team.
• Minimum 5 years of retail sales and customer service experience.
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of advanced math functions that will allow for the analysis of credit and financial information.

Responsibilities

• Oversees operational and sales function of larger volume branch or stand‑alone banking centers in the individual market areas.
• Responsible for leading the team to ensure an exceptional customer and team member experience.
• Acts with confidence by answering customer questions and owning customer issues.
• Maintains a position of trust and responsibility by keeping all customer or team member information confidential.
• More community‑focused, sales leader.
• Stays abreast of industry knowledge, regulations, and changing environment in the financial industry.
• Manages and ensures internal changes to processes and procedures are communicated and implemented.
• Communicates and ensures adherence to all bank initiatives, compliance, security, and operational policies and procedures as well as financial loss standards.
• May process consumer loan requests.
• Resolves customer concerns and issues when needed.
• Responsible for continual training of staff, which includes but is not limited to, sales, operation policy and procedures, customer service, product knowledge, risk management, and physical security. Maintains thorough product knowledge.
• Oversees the training of the Deposit Service team to operate the branch.
• Assigns and schedules staff to ensure optimum service coverage, even distribution of the workload and appropriate project delegation.
• Delegates various operations duties to the Assistant Branch Manager and/or branch staff while maintaining overall administrative responsibility.
• Meets with branch staff regularly (both 1:1 and in group meetings) to organize sales efforts, communication procedural/product changes, and resolve issues to optimize branch performance and employee engagement.
• Establish regular coaching opportunities with each team member to review goals and highlight further personal development.
• Responsible for monitoring Branch income and annual budgeting.
• Selects, trains, supervises, and evaluates the branch staff to enhance individual productivity and enable them to function according to their respective job description.
• May be required to work in other First Mid Banking centers

Skills

Math proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Associate's degree + 3 years sales management

Job description

First Mid Bancshares, Inc. seeks a Branch Manager in Effingham, IL to lead daily operations, drive sales and deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will supervise staff, manage budgets, and ensure compliance while fostering community relationships.

The role emphasizes coaching, process improvement, and cross-team collaboration to achieve branch goals and foster client loyalty. A strong background in retail banking and leadership is preferred.