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Job Description
As the Market Engagement Lead for Business Banking, you will lead a high-impact activation team that drives sales teams' understanding and adoption of the products, tools, and best practices needed to win new business, deepen client relationships, and accelerate revenue growth. You will turn business priorities into strategic market engagement plans with sales-ready messages, resources, and routines that help bankers know what matters, why it matters, and how to use it with clients. You will partner with Product, Sales, Communications, and Learning & Development leaders to create a consistent, repeatable approach for educating, engaging, and activating bankers focused on small business clients. The ideal candidate is a dynamic communicator and persuasive influencer who understands how sales teams absorb information, what motivates banker action, and how to turn complex product information into clear, compelling content that drives adoption and results.
Key Responsibilities:
Understand business priorities, banker education needs, and desired outcomes to ensure market engagement efforts drive adoption, sales execution, and measurable business results.
Develop and manage strategic market engagement roadmaps and delivery plans that align priorities, stakeholders, milestones, success measures, and follow-up.
Serve as a strategic consultant with Product, Sales, and field partners to identify adoption opportunities, clarify banker needs, and refine sales messages and resources to build banker belief, confidence, and action.
Use storytelling, sales insight, and influence to make complex information relevant, memorable, and motivating for frontline teams and leaders.
Reinforce adoption through success stories, recognition moments, and engagement tactics that encourage continued growth and participation.
Gather banker and sales leader feedback to identify what is working, where support is needed, and how strategies should evolve.
Measure and communicate the impact of market engagement efforts through feedback, adoption indicators, business outcomes, and stakeholder input.
Basic Qualifications:
Master's degree, or equivalent work experience
10 or more years of experience in project management activities
Two or more years of managerial experience
Preferred Skills/Experience:
Experience building a new capability, standing up a team, or creating a repeatable operating model for strategy design, sales enablement, market engagement, field engagement, or banker readiness.
Knowledge of business banking products, sales processes, sales routines, banker or field team engagement, product launches, revenue campaigns, or client engagement strategies.
Experience driving behavior change, adoption campaigns, sales activation, or large-scale employee engagement initiatives.
Ability to bring creativity, urgency, energy, and a sales mindset to internal communications and enablement efforts.
Confidence working with senior leaders, frontline managers, and subject matter experts to shape messages that are credible, actionable, and easy for sales teams to use.
Strong business judgment and ability to connect enablement activity to sales execution, revenue generation, employee performance, and client outcomes.
Experience in sales enablement, field engagement, internal communications, change management, training, sales operations, or another role focused on helping sales teams perform.
Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to make complex information simple, relevant, and energizing for a sales audience.
Proven ability to influence stakeholders, build trusted partnerships, and align cross-functional teams around shared sales priorities.
Experience creating communications, tools, training materials, or resources that improve sales understanding, adoption, confidence, and performance.
Ability to move quickly, manage competing priorities, and execute with clarity, energy, and strong attention to detail.
Experience working across cross-functional teams and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
Experience building trusted relationships with sales leaders, product partners, and other key stakeholders.
The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.
If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Review our full benefits available by employment status here (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/benefits/us) .
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://careers.usbank.com/verification-of-eligibility-for-employment) .
The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00
U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
