About Our Opportunity
The Regional Vice President of Agricultural Lending provides strategic leadership of the retail sales team in achieving portfolio growth while maintaining sound loan quality and credit administration. Leading, coaching, and developing Financial Officers to deliver an exceptional customer experience through the delivery of financial services consistent with regional, state and association goals.

LOCATION: This is a leadership role that may be based out of the Owensboro, Campbellsville, Elizabethtown, Hardinsburg, or Henderson, Kentucky offices.
SCHEDULE: Full Time, Hybrid
TRAVEL REQUIRED: 50% – 75%, within the region with some overnight travel

Compensation: $111,561.00 to $249,703.00 base salary plus potential for variable compensation. Base pay is determined by your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Farm Credit Mid-America/Rural 1st may compensate outside of the salary range for bona fide reasons not related to membership in a protected class.

How You Will Spend Your Time

• Leads by modeling our values, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, encouraging and enabling others to act.
• Establishes and maintains a positive work environment that promotes continuous learning, development, recruitment, and retention of highly effective employees.
• Coordinates and collaborates with leaders across the association by supporting the overall customer experience and sales delivery to drive consistency, work share, and success through participating in committees, projects and strategic initiatives.
• Provides strategic leadership for the overall customer experience/relationship, sales delivery and credit function for the assigned region.
• Achieves results through remote leadership of team members throughout their assigned region as well as influencing team members in other areas of the organization.
• Leads and coaches’ others, setting team’s direction, evaluating performance, exercising management authority in performance, compensation and other employment decisions.
• Leads the region’s business development plan, marketplace analysis and marketing plans. Understands and engages in the development of the regional territory from an advocacy and growth perspective.
• Aligns regional goals and results measured by sales numbers, credit quality, credit administration, effective servicing and financial results to the state and association goals.
• Grants authorities, sets standards, evaluates performance, corrects deficiencies, coaches and develops skills, effective and efficient review of credit analysis, regulatory compliance and procedural compliance.
• Monitors the quality of loan portfolios, establishing and granting lending authorities as well as reviewing loans.
• Conducts joint sales calls and credit administration reviews to coach and develop sales team members. Provides meaningful feedback to the Directors of Retail Operations to ensure an accurate and consistent customer experience.
• Establishes and maintains internal and external relationships while participating in Association and industry organizations to gain knowledge, share information, and enhancing the Association’s brand.

Minimum Education & Experience
Degree in business, agriculture, finance, accounting or related field is required.. 4 to 6 years’ of professional experience in financial services, agricultural sales and/or credit experience, with at least 2 years being in a leadership role or having demonstrated skills to lead a team of people.  Preference for agricultural sales leadership experience.