Senior Relationship Manager I, Business Banking
Posted Aug 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
The posting asks you to build and manage a network of centers of influence and referral sources. How do you build one from nothing in a new market?
What they are checking: Whether they have actually built a referral network or inherited one.
You would manage renewals and collection efforts on past dues and defaulted loans. Tell me about a credit that went bad on you.
What they are checking: Ownership of a loss, which reveals whether their book is real.
How do you keep a prospecting pipeline going during a quarter when you are busy servicing existing clients?
What they are checking: Discipline about the activity that pays off two quarters later.
This asks for a minimum of six years of combined credit and lending experience, prefers a formal bank credit training program, and states a salary range of ninety-eight to one hundred thirty-two thousand dollars plus bonus. What would you want to know about how the goals are set?
What they are checking: That they read the terms and will ask directly about how they are measured.
What would you do
You carry annual goals for loan and deposit volume, cross-sales, call planning and fee income. Which of those is hardest to move, and what do you do about it?
What they are checking: Honest self-knowledge about the part of the scorecard they find hard.
How do you cross-sell treasury services to a business owner who only came to you for a loan?
What they are checking: Expanding a relationship without damaging the reason they came.
A prospect you have been calling for a year finally engages, but the deal the bank would approve is worse than what they have now. What do you say?
What they are checking: Integrity when walking away costs a year of effort.
Arlington Heights is a specific market. What would you want to learn about local businesses there in your first three months?
What they are checking: Market-level thinking rather than a generic territory answer.
About the work
This book is businesses with generally up to twenty-five million dollars in revenue. What does a company that size actually need from a bank?
What they are checking: Whether they know the segment, which behaves nothing like middle market or small business.
Walk me through how you would structure a loan for a business whose financials are not as clean as you would like.
What they are checking: Credit judgment on real small-company books.
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