Position Summary
The Managing Director, Commercial CRE role builds and maintains a customer base through prospecting, community involvement and proactive business development activities. The position is focused on increasing loan portfolio, generating fee income and maintaining loan quality. Within this leadership role, presenting loans for approval to necessary committees, and leading a commercial team within a larger Busey market, are also key areas of responsibility.Duties & Responsibilities- Lead and Motivate a Goal Oriented Team:
- Provide strategic guidance on implementation and execution of team goals.
- Foster a success and results oriented environment that safeguards accountability.
- Motivate and lead a high preforming team; attract, recruit, and retain the Commercial Banking team.
- Possess a clear understanding of performance expectations and address any deficiencies in a timely manner.
- Monitor workflow and projects consistent with the Bank’s strategic and business plans.
- Prepare management reports as requested.
- Develop Internal and External Relationships:
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with all Busey teams.
- Interact with internal and external clients and provide extraordinary service.
- Build relationships based on trust and strategic partnerships with business owners and other decision makers.
- Develop and maintain trusted, positive relationships with other employees, clients and vendors.
- Analyze Client Needs & Deliver Client Based Solutions:
- Structure profitable commercial lending solutions that best meets the individual client needs.
- Analyze customers’ needs and ascertain their financial position and credit worthiness; establish and negotiate terms, costs, repayment methods, collateral requirements and rates; manage relationship with customer monitoring repayment activities and variance in changes in the company.
- Represent the Bank in a highly professional manner.
- Complete job assignments in a professional, timely and efficient manner; organize and prioritize work.
- Goals & Production Quality
- Meet or exceed all goals and targets related to the identification, acquisition, and retention of prospective and current clients.
- Ensure that all commercial loans meet credit/financial requirements and complies with all policies and procedures as determined by the Bank.
- Follow all processes and procedures for loan documentation and review as outlined by the Bank.
- Analyze, synthesize and communicate complex data, financial data and related issues in an accurate, objective and straightforward manner.
- Complete job assignments in a professional, timely and efficient manner; organize and prioritize work.
- Knowledge of:
- Advanced knowledge of commercial banking products and services including credit analysis, underwriting and treasury management product and services.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong sales and customer service skills
- Ability to:
- Analyze and interpret numerical data
- Analyze and solve problems of a complex nature and make decisions based on a wide knowledge of many factors where application of advanced technical concepts is required for which there are not precedents
- Make independent and difficult decisions within parameters of the Bank’s loan policies
- Routinely travel (locally) and occasional out of state travel, which may require overnight stays.
- Effectively communicate, deliver upon production results, demonstrate the ability to excel in high-pressure situations.
- Exhibit strong interpersonal skills with the ability to cultivate long term relationships and influence others internally and externally.
- Act as a team player with a value set consistent with the culture of Busey
- Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- Requires 10+ years of banking, finance, or sales relates experience.
- Formal credit training, an advanced degree and/or ongoing AIB seminars and other resources is highly preferred.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.
(Base Pay Range: $200,000 - $255,000 annually)
Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.
Equal Opportunity
Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.
Unsolicited Resumes
Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- 10+ years of banking, finance, or sales related experience
- Advanced knowledge of commercial banking products and services including credit analysis, underwriting and treasury management
- Formal credit training, an advanced degree and/or ongoing AIB seminars
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong sales and customer service skills
- Demonstrated leadership and team management including recruiting, motivating and retaining commercial bankers
- Ability to analyze and interpret numerical and financial data and make independent complex decisions
- Willingness to routinely travel locally and occasional out-of-state travel
- Ability to ensure commercial loans meet credit/financial requirements and comply with bank policies and procedures
Busey Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Busey and has not been reviewed or approved by Busey.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company match alongside a profit‑sharing plan, creating multiple employer‑supported savings channels. This structure strengthens long‑term financial security beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available, adding an ownership pathway that complements traditional retirement benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and volunteer time off are included, supporting time away for family and community. Flexible scheduling features in some materials further support practical use of time off.
Busey Insights
What We Do
As of September 30, 2023, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) was a $12.26 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank, a wholly-owned bank subsidiary of First Busey Corporation, had total assets of $12.23 billion as of September 30, 2023, and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank currently has 46 banking centers serving Illinois, eight banking centers serving Missouri, three banking centers serving southwest Florida, and one banking center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Through Busey’s Wealth Management division, the Company provides asset management, investment, and fiduciary services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. Assets under care totaled $11.55 billion as of September 30, 2023. Busey Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary, FirsTech, specializes in the evolving financial technology needs of small and medium-sized businesses, highly regulated enterprise industries, and financial institutions. FirsTech provides comprehensive and innovative payment technology solutions including online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money and data movement; merchant services; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments at retail agents. More information about FirsTech can be found at firstechpayments.com. Busey Bank is honored to be named among America’s Best Banks by Forbes magazine for the second consecutive year. Ranked 26th overall in 2023, compared to 52nd in last year's rankings. Busey was named among DiversityInc’s Top Regional Companies. The DiversityInc Top 50 survey is the external validator for large U.S. employers that model fairness in their talent strategy, workplace and supplier diversity practices, and philanthropic engagement. We are honored to be consistently recognized nationally and locally for our engaged culture of integrity and commitment to community development. For more information about us, visit busey.com.
