Credit Products Manager Senior

Flagstar Bank; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is hiring a Senior Manager of Credit Products to oversee credit underwriting and portfolio management. This role requires extensive experience and provides leadership to a skilled team, focusing on improving credit processes and supporting sound credit decisions within the bank’s strategic objectives.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Disability insurance

Comprehensive leave program

Qualifications

• 12+ years of credit underwriting and portfolio management experience.
• Experience in managing teams of credit analysts and underwriters.
• Master's Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversees first-line credit underwriting and portfolio management.
• Manages a team of underwriters ensuring risk grading and loan evaluations.
• Collaborates with sales, risk, and technology teams for growth.

Skills

Leadership

Credit Analysis

Risk Management

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

Undergraduate Degree in Business or Economics

Tools

Credit Decision Engines

Portfolio Management Strategies

Job description

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Credit Products Manager Senior

Apply locations Work From Home FL time type Full time posted on Posted 15 Days Ago job requisition id 17263

Position Title

Credit Products Manager Senior

Location

Work From Home FL, FL 32302

Job Summary

The Senior Manager of Credit Products is responsible for overseeing first-line credit underwriting and portfolio management within an assigned vertical, ensuring alignment with the bank’s risk appetite and business objectives. This role manages a team of underwriters and credit professionals, ensuring accurate risk grading, loan evaluation, and ongoing portfolio monitoring. Utilizing data-driven insights and portfolio analytics, the Senior Manager identifies emerging risks and opportunities, providing recommendations to leadership to support sound credit decisions. Collaborating with sales, risk, and technology teams, this role helps drive responsible growth, improve underwriting processes, and enhance credit product offerings. With a focus on operational execution, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement, the Senior Manager plays a key role in maintaining portfolio quality and supporting the bank’s long-term success.

Pay Range: $165,621 - $223,588 - $281,556

Job Responsibilities:

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains visibility and deep knowledge of bank relationships within the assigned region or vertical to ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Executes on the strategic priorities set by the Head of Credit Products, Line of Business leaders, Credit Products Senior Director and 2nd and 3rd Line Risk partners to ensure alignment with enterprise goals.

• Proactively identifies and escalates areas for improvement in credit processes, policies and procedures

• Maintains the credit quality of assigned portfolios and/or lending verticals by overseeing underwriting, portfolio management, and risk monitoring activities.

• Establishes and fosters a shared vision across assigned regions and verticals, ensuring consistency in credit decisioning and risk management practices.

• Attracts, develops, and retains top talent within Credit Products by providing leadership, coaching, and professional development opportunities for underwriters, portfolio managers, and credit analysts.

• Collaborates closely with Sales, Credit Products, and Risk teams to drive responsible growth, optimize credit decisioning, and enhance portfolio performance

• Serves as a key point of contact for deal flow assignment, credit risk reviews, and escalations, ensuring timely and well-informed credit decisions.

• Leverages data-driven insights and analytics to identify emerging credit risks and opportunities, proactively adjusting strategies as needed.

• Well versed in legal documentation (e.g., Credit Agreements) and positioned to both develop more junior associates on the topic and interact with internal and external legal counsel and negotiate terms directly with clients.

• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and risk frameworks while supporting continuous process improvements.

• Provides credit risk reporting and analysis to senior leadership, contributing to portfolio strategy and risk management discussions.

• Partners with legal and compliance teams to ensure underwriting and portfolio management practices align with all regulatory requirements.

• Supports senior leadership in delivering portfolio analysis and reporting, contributing to strategic decision-making.

• Recruits, develops and trains top credit underwriting and portfolio management talent.

• Performs special projects, to include continuous improvement and transformation initiatives, and additional duties and responsibilities as required.

• Consistently adheres to regulatory and compliance policies and standards linked to the job as listed and complete required compliance trainings. Accountable to maintain compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Required Qualifications:

• Education level required: Undergraduate Degree (4 years or equivalent) in Business, Economics or related field.

• Minimum experience required: 12+ Years of 1st line of defense credit underwriting, portfolio management, and risk management experience within the Financial Industry including credit strategy and credit analytics.

• 5+ years of experience in managing teams of credit analysts, underwriters in the specialty vertical.

• Experience and expertise in credit bureaus, credit decision engines, credit and cash flow modeling for underwriting and portfolio management decisions, income/identity verification and loss forecasting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education level preferred: Master's Degree (or Postgraduate equivalent)

Job Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations related to credit decisions, ensuring compliance in underwriting and portfolio management.

• Proficiency in credit bureaus, credit decision engines, underwriting models, and portfolio management strategies, with experience in income/identity verification and risk assessment.

• Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate credit analysis into actionable strategies and policies for key stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to contribute to business strategy by incorporating industry knowledge and market trends into credit risk assessments and recommendations.

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and execute tasks efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong leadership and team development skills, fostering collaboration, coaching, and professional growth within the credit team.
  Physical demands (ADA): No unusual physical exertion is involved.

Flagstar is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Flagstar provides teammates access to a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information: Benefits | Flagstar Bank

About Us

Who We Are

Flagstar Bank is a diversified consumer and commercial bank grounded in building relationships to meet clients where they are on their financial journeys.

Our History

Our parent company, New York Community Bancorp, Inc., is based in Hicksville, NY, and has $116.3 billion in assets, $85.6 billion in loans, $81.4 billion in deposits, and $10.8 billion in total stockholder equity. We are a leading regional bank with 420 banking branches, 134 private client banking teams, wholesale lending via approximately 3,000 third-party originators, retail mortgage lending, multifamily lending, mortgage servicing, and subservicing. We’re also the second largest mortgage warehouse lender nationally based on total commitments. Flagstar has strong footholds in the Northeast and Midwest and exposure to high-growth markets in the Southeast and West Coast.

What We Do

We are driven by our commitment to partner with our clients to set and reach goals together, helping them to take charge and thrive.