As an Assistant Branch Manager at Rockland Trust, you play a pivotal role in supporting the Branch Manager in overseeing daily operations, driving business growth, and ensuring exceptional customer service. Each day, you create a positive and motivating team environment to help staff meet branch goals and objectives, and cultivate a customer-centric retail environment focused on identifying and providing team-based solutions for customer financial needs.

With a consultative, team-oriented sales personality and outstanding personal customer skills, you take responsibility for ensuring that every customer receives a consistent World Class Customer Experience with every branch staff interaction whether in person, over the phone, or through digital channels. You are a leader in the branch, personally executing a high level of customer service and modeling these behaviors to the staff.

What You'll Experience:

• Meaningful relationships: We believe that Each Relationship Matters, and are fully committed to creating a respectful and inclusive environment where everyone is given the chance to succeed.
• Commitment to community: We believe supporting our communities is essential, and are committed to helping those in need.
• Recognition & reward: We believe all colleagues should be recognized for their contributions
• Training & development: We believe all colleagues are critical to our future, and we will invest in their success by providing educational experiences and resources to manage and navigate their careers.
• Comprehensive benefits: Our goal is to offer our colleagues a generous benefits package, and an environment that supports a healthy work-life balance. Our benefits include competitive compensation with performance incentive awards, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision, Pet Insurance, 401K retirement plan, Long Term Disability & Life Insurance, Child Care Reimbursement, Tuition Assistance for graduate and undergraduate programs, an award winning wellness program and much more.

Who We Are:

At Rockland Trust, we believe that being a great place to bank starts with being a great place to work. When our colleagues are valued and cared for, they're empowered to make a difference for our customers and communities.

As one of The Boston Globe's "Top Places to Work" for the past fourteen years, we know that finding the right people is just the beginning. Through competitive benefits, enriching development opportunities, and a respectful and collaborative culture, we've built a workplace that enhances our colleagues' lifestyle and inspires them to reach their full potential.

For over 116 years, we have been dedicated to strengthening the neighborhoods we live in and serve. Rockland Trust offers a wide range of banking, investment, and insurance services to help individuals and businesses work toward their financial goals with more than 120 branches located throughout Massachusetts, as well as commercial banking, investment management offices, and residential lending centers across Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

What You'll Do:

• Work in direct collaboration with the Branch Manager to:
• Train, motivate, develop, and coach employees.
• Accept responsibility for individual and overall branch sales, and customer experience performance.
• Nourish branch enthusiasm for participating in product promotion and other areas of opportunity.
• Track and report branch performance.
• Maintain the operational integrity of the branch.
• Ensure proper controls are maintained over all branch operational processes and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate new and/or changed policies and procedures to branch staff.
• Develop and implement sales programs and maintain a positive sales and service environment.
• Develop and maintain effective lobby management and customer outreach efforts.
• Maintain and utilize Salesforce platform.
• Manage referral targets on both an individual basis as well as for the branch team, leveraging a needs-based, consultative sales approach and online produce recommendation guides.
• Proactively identify, report, and resolve customer issues to ensure a positive customer experience.
• Ensure team compliance with RTC policies and procedures by leading by example, demonstrating our RTC core values and delivery on our customer promises.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of all products and services provided by the bank including Consumer Products, Home Lending, Business and Cash Management alternatives; act as a resource to others in product knowledge.
• Actively demonstrate technology and self-service channels with new and existing customers promoting ATM, online banking, and mobile banking alternatives.
• Understand and utilize Regional Based Staffing and branch staffing models to coordinate in-branch customer demand while facilitating and supervising proactive outreach such as outbound calling and external sales calls.
• Consistently meet or exceed sales and service expectations by effectively leveraging RTC needs-based product recommendations; consistently meet or exceed requirements on mystery shops.
• Show initiative in maintaining a solid foundation of product knowledge by taking advantage of trainings as they are offered and completing required trainings within the timeframes provided.
• Represent Rockland Trust by establishing meaningful roots in the communities it serves.
• Supervise branch staff in the absence of the Branch Manager.
• Assume responsibility for additional reporting duties and responsibilities as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be or become a Notary Public and NMLS certified.
• Ability to generate sales excitement and act as a coach and mentor to the staff.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel with ability to operate a variety of office equipment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Consultative, team-oriented sales personality with outstanding customer service skills.
• Sound risk decision-making skills and strong operational proficiency.
• Supervisory abilities to provide constructive and positive feedback, and manage performance.
• Ability to meet compliance and audit requirements.
• High degree of professionalism and ability to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when needed.
• Ability to work within normal office requirements, with long periods of standing and continuous customer support.
• Willingness and ability to work within a flexible work week, which may include weekends, as customer needs dictate.
• Serves as the bank representative in community activities
• Ability to successfully complete our training program

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• College degree and two to four years of retail banking or equivalent experience preferred.
• The ideal candidate should possess Retail Banking experience in a sales environment with strong supervisory experience.

Rockland Trust is the Bank Where Each Relationship Matters. In pursuit of that promise, we foster a respectful and inclusive work environment where everyone is given the chance and resources to succeed.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Additionally, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Now that you've heard a little bit about us, we'd love to hear more about you. Submit your application and come help us strengthen our communities- one relationship a time.