Executive Director, Distribution Planning

Come and join us to reshaping the future!

As an Executive Director of Distribution Planning on the Branch Distribution Analytics Team, you'll lead a team of analytical and geospatial professionals responsible for developing and advancing the analytic framework that supports our distribution network planning. Your primary stakeholders will be the real estate organization which is responsible for managing our 5,000 branch and 15,000 ATM distribution network. Your leadership will guide the identification of new branch builds, network optimization actions, and performance monitoring, ensuring our distribution network delivers maximum business value and supports our customers' needs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee the identification of new branch builds and market expansion opportunities, leveraging data-driven insights to guide strategic investments in the retail network.
• Lead branch network optimization analysis, including consolidations, relocations, and redevelopments, to ensure efficient and effective distribution of resources.
• Monitor branch profitability and performance, providing actionable recommendations to senior executives.
• Direct ATM network planning and analysis to optimize coverage and accessibility for customers.
• Produce competitive reporting and analyze retail deposit share trends to inform strategic decisions.
• Track customer behavior and branch engagement, translating findings into strategies that enhance customer experience and drive business growth.
• Build strong presentations and data visualizations that effectively convey analytical findings and recommended actions to influence senior executives.
• Effectively prioritize and deliver a portfolio of high-impact initiatives, organizing resources to meet commitments and deliver maximum business value.
• Partner closely with business customers to identify impactful projects, influence key decisions with data, and ensure client satisfaction.
• Maintain industry-leading knowledge of analytic techniques, particularly as applicable to financial services, demography, and retail network planning. Leverage this knowledge to coach junior team members and tackle complex problems.
• Deliver scalable and sustainable new analytic capabilities that unlock value and support ongoing management of key business levers.
• Lead local data strategy initiatives, including sourcing new data, identifying and adopting new tools, and integrating them into necessary analytic platforms.

• 10+ years of industry experience in strategy, finance, business analytics, real estate, or other quantitative roles (e.g., marketing analytics, sales analytics, risk analytics, business insights), including leadership of complex projects.
• 3+ years of experience managing strategy, finance, analysis, or data science teams.
• Experience navigating complex, matrixed organizations responsible for supporting multiple key stakeholders.
• Experience navigating complex, matrixed organizations responsible for supporting multiple key stakeholders.
• Strong data controls mindset ensuring appropriate documentation, testing, and validation.
• Able to convey complex information in an understandable, compelling, and persuasive manner to senior executives.

• MS degree in an analytical field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Applied Math, Operations Research, Physics, and Data Science) or business degree / MBA with an extensive track record as an analytics practitioner.
• Direct experience and the ability to provide coaching for a range of modern data science, analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Python, R, Spark, Alteryx, ESRI, SQL)]
• Prior financial services, management consulting, or corporate strategy experience.