Vice President Agribusiness
Current1. SALES and RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: The VP Agribusiness will coordinate with other field staff (including Financial Services Officers, Customer Service Representatives, Crop Insurance Specialists, Appraisers) to identify new customers, provide high quality customer service, and share appropriate information to help the association achieve its desired results. Develop and maintain a significant professional presence throughout the assigned territory. Spend most of the time out of the office to build professional relationships with customers, prospective customers and influencers based on mutual trust and respect. The objective is to understand customer goals, credit strengths and weaknesses, and deliver “value added”/constructive agricultural and financial information that will assist them in their agribusiness. The VP Agribusiness is accountable to determine and define the appropriate customer interaction and coordinate the appropriate staff that may directly or indirectly be a part of the relationship to serve the customer’s loan, lease, crop insurance and servicing needs. The VP Agribusiness also ensures appropriate communication to the customer and to internal team members regarding the customer. 2. DELIVER SOUND CREDIT: As part of the ongoing consultative relationship with our customers, the VP Agribusiness will interpret and evaluate financial information and ask appropriate follow-up and probing questions to determine the appropriate product or service. The VP Agribusiness will approve loans within delegated authority and work with a credit analyst to make quality credit decisions consistent with the request and associated loan risks, and then set clear expectations with the customer.