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Regional Business Development Officer

AT Merrill
Merrill

Regional Business Development Officer

Houston, TX

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for identifying and developing new client relationships in their respective territories through direct calling and networking efforts. Key responsibilities include individually researching and contacting new prospects to successfully solicit new business opportunities and supplementing direct calling on prospects by developing referrals from business intermediaries (e.g. consultants, attorneys, investment bankers, accountants, business brokers). Job expectations include designing and implementing appropriate sales strategies to achieve assigned production goals.

Responsibilities:

  • Develops new business opportunities
  • Prospects new clients and centers of influences
  • Builds relationships with new and existing clients, centers of influence, and associates
  • Devises sales strategies for territory management and market analysis
  • Communicates, negotiates and leads development
  • Provides complex credit solutions

Skills:

  • Business Development
  • Client Experience Branding
  • Client Solutions Advisory
  • Prospecting
  • Referral Management
  • Client Management
  • Pipeline Management
  • Referral Identification
  • Relationship Building

Required Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of sales experience with good working knowledge of credit and lending issues.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including presentations
  • Self-motivated and result oriented

Desired Qualifications:

  • Strong desire to create business working with referral sources.
  • Undergraduate degree in business, finance or economics
  • Formal credit/lending training and strong credit skills
  • Proven business acumen by working with lending products and Small Businesses to provide solutions and services to fit their financial needs
  • Demonstrated sales ability; influences with impact; ability to develop new client relationships and new business

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Client-provided location(s): Houston, TX, USA; San Antonio, TX, USA; Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24044059
Employment Type: Full Time