Strategic Business Development Lead

First National Bank; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 63,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401k with matching

Time Off Programs

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

First National Bank (FNBO) seeks a strategic Business Development professional to coordinate growth initiatives across AG, CRE, and Corporate/Specialty leaders. You will drive events, marketing programs, customer engagement, and cross‑functional projects to accelerate execution and impact.

You’ll partner with senior leaders to manage multiple priorities, deliver data-driven insights, and optimize processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Project Management, or related field.
• Experience in business development, marketing, project management, event strategy and execution, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex projects, competing priorities, deadlines, budgets, and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong project management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop executive-ready presentations, agendas, reports, and business communications.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively work with and influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Salesforce, CRM platforms, data analysis, or business development tools.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate business development initiatives, events, marketing programs, customer engagement activities, and strategic projects across multiple banking verticals.
• Lead and manage multiple business development projects simultaneously, coordinating stakeholders, timelines, deliverables, and follow-through from planning through completion.
• Lead and facilitate business development meetings and working sessions, including scheduling, agenda development, meeting preparation, facilitation, documentation, and follow-up.
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings and initiatives to align teams on priorities, projects, events, and business development opportunities.
• Conduct research and provide data, insights, recommendations, and resources to support business development strategies and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, resources, and business development practices.
• Lead the planning and execution of customer, prospect, networking, community, conference, and business development events from strategy through post-event follow-up.
• Partner with leaders to establish event objectives, content direction, and desired outcomes.
• Manage event logistics, including venues, vendors, invitations, registration, attendee communications, hospitality, AV, promotional materials, speakers, and day-of execution.
• Develop agendas, briefing materials, communications, and other content to support customer and prospect engagement.
• Track participation and evaluate event effectiveness to identify opportunities for future engagement and business development.
• Serve as a liaison between Business Development, Marketing, Brand, and internal partners.
• Coordinate development of marketing materials, presentations, content, sponsorship assets, and customer-facing resources.
• Provide business direction to marketing partners to align initiatives with priorities and customer needs.
• Support strategic marketing and brand initiatives to strengthen relationships and awareness.
• Develop, maintain, and forecast budgets for teams and verticals.
• Track expenses, sponsorships, event costs, and budget utilization.
• Monitor sponsorships, memberships, conference participation, renewals, and related opportunities.
• Coordinate procurement, vendors, contracts, and promotional materials.
• Serve as a key resource for Salesforce and business development tools, reporting, and best practices.
• Support leaders with Salesforce training, data management, reporting, and system utilization.
• Develop and distribute reports and insights related to pipeline, referrals, prospecting, cross-selling, and other activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting, tracking, and processes.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Organization

Relationship-building

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Marketing/Communications

Tools

Salesforce

CRM platforms

Data analysis

Job description

First National Bank (FNBO) seeks a strategic Business Development professional to coordinate growth initiatives across AG, CRE, and Corporate/Specialty leaders. You will drive events, marketing programs, customer engagement, and cross‑functional projects to accelerate execution and impact.

You’ll partner with senior leaders to manage multiple priorities, deliver data-driven insights, and optimize processes.