Community Market Specialist

Community Market Specialist

This position can be located at our Kearney, Grand Island, Holdredge, Hastings, or Lexington, NE branches.

What's Important to You We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That's why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) in addition to paid federal holidays.
• Student debt employer repayment program.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 6% match.

The health and happiness of the places we call home matter to us. Learn a little more about what we do for the communities we serve and why we want YOU to be a part of it.

We encourage you to apply. Reach for what you want and tell us why your work ethic and willingness to learn make you a natural fit for #Team First Interstate .

SUMMARY The Community Market Specialist partners with branch and market leaders to support employee readiness, ensure consistent execution of standards, and strengthen the client experience across branch locations. This position provides onboarding support, field‑based coaching, and training reinforcement while also helping identify trends, improve processes, and reduce operational risk.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads structured onboarding, role transitions, and early development support for new and promoted employees across assigned markets, ensuring consistent use of established training programs, certification requirements, and defined milestone touchpoints.
• Partners with Community Banking leaders to assess talent readiness, identify skill gaps, align on performance priorities, and support market-level goals related to client experience, growth, and operational excellence.
• Conducts routine branch visits to evaluate execution against standards, provide real-time coaching, deliver scenario-based training, and reinforce expectations related to service quality, referral behaviors, sales practices, and operational controls.
• Provides targeted coaching through observation, transaction and account reviews, documentation checks, and other activities to improve accuracy and reduce risk.
• Facilitates regular connections with branch leadership to reinforce enterprise initiatives, communicate process or policy changes, and ensure alignment on operational expectations.
• Monitors key performance and operational indicators—including client experience insights, referral activity, documentation quality, exception trends, losses, reconciliations, audit findings, and training progress—and partners with leaders to develop action plans addressing emerging risks.
• Maintains standardized documentation such as onboarding updates, branch visit summaries, coaching observations, evaluation forms, and action plans to ensure visibility, trend analysis, and consistent follow‑through.
• Supports enterprise and market‑wide initiatives, projects, and operations review follow‑up by providing feedback, training, and validation of resolution steps.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional partners to escalate branch needs, improve tools and resources, and influence enhancements to operational processes and controls.
• Participates in talent selection and development activities for branch roles, supporting readiness and providing supplemental leadership capacity during Community Market Leader absences when needed.
• Represents the bank in community involvement and financial education initiatives, supporting Community‑to‑Community (C2C) commitments and reinforcing the bank's presence and reputation in local markets.
• Completes all work accurately and in accordance with regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures, maintaining current knowledge through required training, ongoing coursework, and continuous learning in a highly regulated environment.
• Serves as a change champion, helping branches adopt new systems, processes, and enterprise initiatives through structured training, reinforcement, and feedback loops.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with one or more Community Market Leader(s) to advance the company's objectives across multiple branches within the market.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this…