Position title: Senior Relationship Manager

File: FCC192-12/13

Location: Blainville, Quebec

Closing date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Division: Operations

Language requirement: French

Commercial lending expertise rewarded
Build relationships with large businesses related to agribusiness and agri-food. You’ll help tailor our approach to providing specialty lending and other business services to processors, wholesalers, input providers, equipment manufacturers and dealers: businesses that enhance Canadian agribusiness and agri-food. With at least five years of lending experience, you’re comfortable mentoring others and negotiating financing packages with entrepreneurs and industry executives. Along with a degree in agriculture finance, business or commerce, or a professional agrologist designation, you have an MBA, CFA, CGA or CA designation (or an equivalent combination).

These competencies describe the required behaviours and expectations for the position:

ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES JOB COMPETENCIES

Agility
Acknowledges both organizational and personal capacity to change, based on what is and is not possible or probable. Knows when to say no. Changes approach accordingly, even though this may entail considerable effort to meet the organization’s needs.

Customer experience
Undertakes a regular exchange of information with customers and/or co-workers for mutual benefit to build a network of trust. Manages these relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure alignment and efficiency of effort.

Initiative
Makes well-thought-out modifications to systems or processes to improve both their impact and performance.

Learning and innovation
Develops a cross-boundary approach to learning by gaining information from multiple sources and encourages this in others as a strategy for continual improvement. Adapts communication for different audiences.

Solution focus
Analyzes relationships among several parts of a problem or situation. Demonstrates resilience by developing personal tactics and techniques to deal with issues and changes encountered in resolving problems.

Teamwork and partnership
Makes sure the practical needs of the team are met. Uses different leadership styles in response to the needs and goals of the team.

 

Customer business sense
Fosters a comprehensive understanding of local markets, industry practices, etc., and their relationship to building and sustaining long-term and stronger customer bonds. Develops business-based perspectives specific to a customer’s situation, taking into consideration both tangible and intangible issues.

Identifying, planning and executing
Demonstrates a keen understanding of differences in relationships between individuals and groups. Develops and implements effective work plans and schedules for multiple undertakings that involve different groups. Effectively allocates work and is able to redirect resources quickly to meet changing priorities while managing competing tasks.

Impact and influence
Uses comprehensive influence strategies and actions tailored to different groups. Uses initiative to develop sponsorship and support for ideas to ensure buy-in and ownership.

Judgment and decision-making
Shapes decision making by considering multiple underlying issues. Makes a systematic effort to understand the readily apparent and subtle complexities involved in exercising judgment.

Product, service and solutions focus
Continually enhances knowledge and develops a comprehensive understanding of marketplace offerings. Builds new solutions that redefine the customer relationship.

Relationship building
Develops and nurtures contacts with individuals or groups in different parts of the organization or beyond the organization. Establishes broad-based relationships, networks or groups to facilitate opportunities to discuss and share information.