Consumer Investments Market Leader - Upstate New York Market

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for managing a team that may be composed of field-based Financial Solutions Advisors. Key responsibilities include driving local strategies and tactics surrounding the client experience, deepening and growing relationships, and ensuring operational excellence at the market and financial center levels. Job expectations include working across the organization to develop business knowledge and cultivate one team partnership to collectively achieve results.

Responsibilities:
• Champions organizational vision and values executing consistently to drive business results
• Manages the financial planning and asset-based relationship sales process
• Engages with Financial Center Advisors, coaching for strategic business drivers and successful professional growth and development
• Manages sales using growth plans in Sales Force
• Manages effective Financial Center Advisor recruiting strategies 
• Administers superior sales supervision and practices in the market

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
• Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement
• Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions
• Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues
• Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance
• Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions
• Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization
• Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work

Skills:
• Risk Management
• Leadership Development
• Coaching
• Customer and Client Focus
• Talent Development
• Sales Performance Management
• Business Operations Management
• Customer Service Management
• Decision Making
• Executive Presence
• Performance Management
• Recruiting
• Process Performance Management
• Critical Thinking
• Result Orientation

Required Qualifications:                                                     

• Has Series 7 and 66,or is able to obtain any/all required licenses within a specified period of time

• Has supervisory licenses of an 8 (or 9 and 10 combined) or possesses a Series 4, 24 and 53, or is able to obtain any/all required licenses within a specified period of time

• 5+ years' of demonstrated experience with sales/bank operations and building, leading, managing and coaching a team​

• Enthusiastic, highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic and intense focus on results, acting in the best interest of the client

• Collaborates effectively to get things done, building and nurturing strong relationships with key partners/clients across and outside of organizations

• Displays passion, commitment and drive to deliver an experience that improves our clients' financial lives

• Confident in identifying solutions for clients based on their needs and can resolve problems independently or bring in others as needed

• Communicates effectively and confidently and is comfortable engaging all clients

• Ability to learn and adapt to new information and technology platforms

• Applies strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to meet clients' needs as well as escalate as needed with sense of urgency

• Will follow esta