Position Summary
The Managing Director, Energy Banking is a senior relationship and business leader responsible for driving growth, profitability, and client engagement across the Energy sector portfolio. This role provides strategic leadership in delivering comprehensive banking solutions—including lending, treasury, capital markets, risk management, and advisory services—to energy clients. The Managing Director serves as a trusted advisor to executive-level clients, leads complex deal execution, and plays a critical role in talent development, portfolio management, and strategic direction for the Energy Banking platform.Duties & Responsibilities
Client Relationship Management & Business Development
- Originate, structure, and grow complex banking relationships with energy companies, sponsors, and industry participants.
- Serve as primary relationship manager for key strategic clients, maintaining deep executive-level engagement.
- Identify new business opportunities, expand wallet share, and cross-sell banking, capital markets, treasury, wealth management and advisory solutions.
- Act as a trusted financial advisor, delivering insights on industry trends, capital structures, market risks, and strategic options.
Deal Origination & Execution
- Lead the origination and execution of credit facilities, project financings, and related energy transactions.
- Partner with Capital Markets, Risk Management and Treasury Management to deliver integrated solutions.
- Oversee credit structuring, underwriting, pricing, and approval processes, ensuring strong risk-adjusted returns.
- Provide senior oversight on transaction documentation, negotiations, and closings.
Portfolio & Risk Management
- Maintain accountability for portfolio performance and regulatory compliance across energy client relationships.
- Monitor industry trends, commodity cycles, regulatory developments, and macroeconomic factors impacting the portfolio.
- Proactively manage risks, approvals, renewals, and remediation strategies where appropriate.
- Ensure adherence to internal risk policies and governance standards.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and performance management for Energy Banking teams.
- Foster a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
- Participate in recruiting, coaching, and succession planning efforts.
- Serve as a senior representative of the Energy Banking group within the organization and externally.
Strategy & Market Leadership
- Contribute to the development and execution of the Energy Banking growth strategy, including energy transition initiatives.
- Represent the bank at industry conferences, client events, and with key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with senior leadership on product innovation and market positioning in the evolving energy landscape.
Education & Experience
Knowledge of:
- Advanced knowledge of energy markets, capital structures, commodity risk, regulatory environment and financial modeling
- Strong strategic, analytic and financial acumen
- Executive level communication, negotiation and presentation skills
Ability to:
- Proven performer as an Energy loan officer in a high performing commercial bank environment is required; familiarity with the metro market and region is preferred.
- Effective communicator, results oriented, demonstrates the ability to excel in high-pressure situations.
- Exhibit strong interpersonal skills with the ability to cultivate long term relationships and influence others internally and externally.
- Lead teams, exhibit influence across organizations and manage large, complex client portfolios
Education and Training:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Economics, Engineering or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 12+ years of progressive experience in commercial or investment banking, with significant focus on the energy sector
- Demonstrated success in senior-level relationship management, deal origination and complex credit structuring
Compensation and Benefits
Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.
(Base Pay Range: $275,000.00 - $325,000.00 annually)
Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.
Equal Opportunity
Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.
Unsolicited Resumes
Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.
