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Job Location: Clarksville, TN 37040Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: Not SpecifiedTravel Percentage: Up to 25%Job Category: Banking

Job Title: Commercial Banking Manager

Department: Loans

Reports To: CBO

FLSA Status: Exempt

Supports Legends Bank’s Mission, Vision, and Values by demonstrating the following characteristics and behaviors with team members, customers, and communities we serve.

L – Lead; E – Engage; G – Grow; E – Excel; N – Notice; D – Do; S – Serve

The Area Manager is responsible for leading the commercial and business banking activities within an assigned geographic market. The position is accountable for the market's overall production, profitability, portfolio quality, talent development, and relationship growth objectives.

This leader drives performance through a combination of personal production and leadership of Commercial Bankers, Business Bankers, and Commercial Banking Support personnel. Responsibilities include commercial loan growth, deposit growth, treasury management revenue, fee income generation, portfolio management, credit quality, team development, and community involvement.

The Area Manager serves as the primary commercial banking leader within the assigned market and is responsible for ensuring the successful execution of the bank's commercial banking strategy while fostering a disciplined credit culture and delivering exceptional customer outcomes.

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and execute market business plans designed to achieve commercial loan growth, deposit growth, treasurymanagementrevenue growth, fee income generation, and profitabilityobjectives.
• Maintain a significant personal portfolio of commercial and business banking relationships while generating new business opportunities.
• Represent the bank throughout the market through active participation in community, civic, and professional organizations.
• Lead, coach, and hold team members accountable for commercial loan production, business banking production, deposit generation, treasury management sales, and fee income goals.
• Establish andmonitorcalling activity standards, pipeline management expectations, relationship development goals, and overall production metrics.
• Conduct regular production reviews and coaching sessions to ensure achievement of individual and team performance goals.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, andretainhigh-performing commercial banking professionals and support staff.
• Establish performance expectations and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and professional development opportunities.
• Partner with executive leadership and Human Resourcesregardingperformance management, succession planning, compensation recommendations, and organizational development and strategic planning activities.
• Ensure effective portfolio management practices are consistently applied across all assigned commercial and business banking relationships.
• Monitor portfolio quality through oversight of annual reviews, risk ratings, exception tracking, delinquency management, charge-offs, covenant compliance, and overall credit administration activities.
• Collaborate with Credit Administration and executive leadership toidentifyemerging credit concerns and developappropriate riskmitigation strategies.
• Drive treasury management penetration throughout the market by partnering with bankers and treasury management personnel toidentifyopportunities and deepen customer relationships.
• Promote growth of noninterest income through treasury services, merchant services, referral partnerships, and other fee-generating products and services.
• Encourage a relationship-based approach to customer management that strengthens overall wallet share and long-term client retention.
• Exercise lending authority within established approval limits andparticipatein the approval process for larger or more complex credit relationships.
• Support sound credit structuring, underwriting discipline, and adherence to lending policies and procedures.
• Review and recommend risk grade changes, accrual modifications, charge-offs, and other credit actions whenappropriate.
• Ensure compliance with all bank policies, regulatory requirements, and risk management standards.
• Support strategic initiatives designed to improve commercial banking performance, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain accountability for the overall performance, profitability, and reputation of the commercial banking function within the assigned market.

• 7-10 years of progressive commercial lending experience, portfolio management, commercial credit analysis, underwriting, loan administration, or related banking experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of commercial credit analysis, cash flow analysis, borrower risk assessment, loan documentation, and commercial lending requirements.
• Demonstrated success growing commercial loans, deposits, treasury management revenue, and overall client relationships.
• Strong understanding of commercial credit, portfolio management, treasury management solutions, and commercial banking profitability drivers.
• Ability to apply sound accounting, financial, economic, and credit principles to the review and monitoring of commercial credit risk.
• Knowledge of Commercial Lending requirements and documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to apply sound economic and accounting principles and practices to the review of credit risk.
• Strong analytical and project management skills; and Exemplary written and oral presentation skills.
• Experience leading and supervising Commercial and Business Bankers, credit administration, loan review, audit, or compliance functions preferred.

Assumes responsibility and is accountable for the loan/deposit growth in the market. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Extensive knowledge and proven track record in financial institution lending, branch operations, and bank procedures.
• Significant background in credit administration as well as state and federal financial institution regulations.
• Excellent ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and interpret government regulations and legal documents.
• Effectively provide strong leadership with an ability to be versatile and relate to varying mindsets within a diverse group of banking professionals.
• Strong analytical, time management and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Action oriented with a high aptitude in the areas of reasoning, critical thinking and analysis.
• Understand and comply with all bank policy/procedures and regulatory laws and regulations.
• Foster and promote the bank image at all times.
• Maintains the highest standards of ethical behavior, honesty and professional excellence.

Minimum of bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field with 10 years or more experience in the Commercial lending and branch management areas required. Advanced degree preferred.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that an employee encounters and must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to:

• sit or stand for extended periods of time; ability to bend, reach and lift up to 25 lbs.
• Move around the various work locations freely.
• Have sufficient dexterity of arms, hands and fingers to efficiently operate a computer keyboard, mouse and other computer components.
• Have the ability to converse and exchange information with all customer and staff.
• Have close, far and peripheral vision.
• Willingness/ability to travel between the branches in the market.