Eastern Bank · 17 hours ago
Portfolio Development Officer
Eastern Bank is committed to supporting its employees and fostering individual growth. The Portfolio Development Officer is responsible for managing relationships with key clients, sourcing and evaluating new banking transactions, and ensuring a positive customer experience to deepen client relationships.
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Responsibilities
Manage an assigned portfolio of Business Banking clients to ensure that we are delivery a positive customer experience to meet their expectations
Source, evaluate and recommend new banking transactions for existing Portfolio Clients for new loan, deposit and cross sell opportunities
Expectations will be to contact the customers twice a year, with one of the contacts being an in person visit
Work with Portfolio Managers to ensure that the maintenance required on loan relationships in the Portfolio is completed in a timely manner
The Portfolio Development Officer will be the primary contact for the clients both proactive and reactive
Work with Business Banking team to develop referral relationship to funnel larger opportunities for Existing Portfolio clients that are growing as well as larger New to Bank opportunities
Field referrals from existing Portfolio Clients and external Centers of Influence for New to Bank clients inclusive of loans, deposits and cross sell products
The primary objective of this category would be to drive new to bank business
The Portfolio Development Officer must work within the boundaries of the division and bank's policies and procedures
The Portfolio Development Officer must have the ability to regularly and consistently facilitate the resolution of issues that occur with complex and diverse commercial relationships
The Portfolio Development Officer must have the ability to work independently and to consistently demonstrate the ability to balance multiple assignments and priorities
The Portfolio Development Officer must possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal and have the interpersonal skills needed for a positive team environment
This position will have an accelerated learning path around the credit process in place
This will include internal analyst courses, regular attendance at credit committee meetings, structure loan transactions with the feedback of the Credit Delivery Manager or Team Leader and some participation in 3rd party credit courses
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
5 years of banking experience
Must have a basic understanding of commercial businesses and banking
Demonstrated basic knowledge of credit and sales processes
Superior communication, organizational, writing, and interpersonal skills required
Strong sales skills in a fast pace environment
Must be resourceful and able to search out answers and solutions to complex problems and issues
Able to utilize a full range of Portfolio Management responsibilities
Technologically proficient
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
Retirement
Vacation
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Eastern Bank
Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England and the largest community bank in Massachusetts.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2023-09-19Acquired
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