Job Description
- Application Deadline: Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT
- Position: Branch Managers (Nationwide)
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- Location Nigeria
- Job Field Banking 
Job Description
Business and Financial Performance
- Delivery of the branch’s budget numbers against Key Performance Indicators.
- Identify business growth opportunities in the local market and develop appropriate strategies for capturing such to grow our market share.
- Work jointly and proactively with all internal stakeholders (businesses, Operations, Technology, and product partners) to increase Ecobank’s wallet share within the respective market segments.
- Review Account Plans for all RMs attached to the branch with a view to enhancing customer wallet share, business volumes and earnings.
- Achieve targeted product cross-sell ratios and increase customer adoption of Ecobank’s products, platforms, and services.
- Ensure that various business segments in the branch maintain a CABAL that is commensurate with overall budget projections.
- Ensure that all incomes are properly recognized.
- Grow the deposit base of the branch with specific focus on growing low-cost deposits, collections, value-chain business, and channels.
- Achieve cost-income ratio targets of the branch and business.
- Ensure that credit approval memoranda (CAM) meet the Banks’ credit policy guidelines and loan accounts are operated within ‘credit approval’ limits and terms.
- Conduct weekly, monthly business performance and profitability reviews.
- Ensure all Non-Performing Loan (NPL) & Past Due Obligation (PDO) ratios are kept within budgeted limits and targeted for recovery.
- Attain sales goals and customer satisfaction levels through the effective management of resources.
Customer Centricity
- Constantly review strategies to ensure excellent and comprehensive customer service delivery, quality standards and branch ambience are constantly upheld in the branch.
- Identification and marketing of prospects within the target market.
- Responsible for exceeding customers’ expectation across the segments.
- Establish and sustain a customer-centric business culture in the branch, leveraging on people and technology to ensure service quality and excellence in the delivery of our products and services.
- Sustain/drive increased digital channel utilization across all collections and payments channels measured via key KPIs [ATM uptime, Card adoption and activity levels, Mobile Banking adoption and activity, Retail Internet Banking (RIB)/OMNI adoption/ activity levels and POS/WEB activity], Omni lite, NQR and POS
- Ensure high customer satisfaction as measured and monitored through customer feedback surveys and Net Promoter Scores (NPS).
- Efficiently and effectively liaise with internal departments/Units – CIB, Trade, Risk, EBS, etc. including other Branches and departments to promote and drive business volumes and profitability at the branch.
- Review, approve & recommend for higher approvals, properly evaluated customers’ banking needs as it relates to credit, electronic banking and operational support.
- Negotiation of loan/credit terms and conditions, pricing, closing of transactions and after sales follow up.
Leadership and People Management
- Motivate and lead team to achieve consistent profitability through a clear process for setting targets, performance management & monitoring of all set targets.
- Conduct regular people performance and productivity reviews.
- Create and sustain a fit-for-purpose succession plan and build a healthy talent pipeline.
- Encourage and foster a congenial working environment to enable your team achieve excellence through teamwork and operational efficiency.
- Ensure an agile and efficient workforce with right skills to meet set strategic objectives.
- Effectively harness the strengths of and optimally engage people resource within the team for maximum productivity.
- Coordinate and manage Relationship Managers ensuring that they deliver on set deliverables.
- Derive strategies from data findings for a profitable and sustained growth across reporting segments/businesses.
Process, Control and Operational Performance
- Promote high ethical and integrity standards and ensure the Ecobank RACE-IT Values are sustained and evident at the branch.
- Ensure there is a strong internal control system in place and monitor its adequacy and effectiveness.
- Achieve satisfactory audit rating and fully comply with KYC/AML and regulatory guidelines.
- Ensure Risk Management indices are met [NPL, Recovery and Audit outcomes]
- Make recommendations to management to improve operations process to improve customer satisfaction.
- Ensure that there is an established strong cost and revenue assurance framework for all GLs in the branch.
- Strengthen governance and ensure proper regulation and control around segmentation and data handling.
- Develop, implement, and train Relationship Managers/ Account Managers on processes required to achieve service excellence, customer satisfaction and improved relationship management.
- Ensure bank’s credit policy requirements are upheld and only good quality risk assets requests are presented for approval.
- Develop and implement strategies to ensure effective growth and development of the bank’s share of wallet of existing clients.
- Develop and implement strategies for converting prospects and effectively onboarding/managing new clients.
Strategic initiatives
- Drive/Champion & sustain the ongoing Ecobank Nigeria digitalization agenda.
- Lead strategic initiatives as defined by the bank.