Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Private Banking Team Lead
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Des Moines, Iowa, United States
**What you’ll be doing**
As a **Private Banking Team Lead,** you will cultivate new and manage existing high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) client relationships, providing tailored banking and lending solutions. You will oversee a portfolio of relationships while leading a team of Private Bankers, ensuring strong sales execution, portfolio management, and adherence to risk standards.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with internal partners across CIBC Private Wealth Management and CIBC Commercial Banking to expand relationships and deliver a full range of financial services. Your leadership will drive profitable growth, deepen client relationships, and enhance the team’s performance in meeting lending and deposit needs.
**How you’ll succeed****• Lead and manage private banking relationships:** Oversee complex lending and deposit relationships for HNW and UHNW clients while guiding your team in portfolio management and business development.
**• Drive team success:** Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and day-to-day management of Private Bankers, ensuring a strong sales and risk management culture.
**• Expand client relationships:** Serve as a trusted advisor, actively identifying opportunities to offer customized lending, deposit, and wealth management solutions.
**• Ensure portfolio health and risk management:** Oversee portfolio reviews, past-due remediation, risk rating accuracy, and timely renewals for both your portfolio and your team’s.
**• Facilitate credit and underwriting processes:** Work closely with Underwriting, Group Portfolio Managers, and Credit Risk Management to structure deals that meet client needs while mitigating risk.
**• Leverage technology for client engagement:** Ensure Salesforce activity is up to date, tracking client interactions, opportunities, and referrals across the team.
**• Actively participate in the market:** Represent CIBC Private Wealth Management by engaging in local industry events and building new client relationships.
**• Maintain compliance and governance:** Hold your team accountable to policies and procedures while fostering a diverse and inclusive environment that reflects the CIBC brand.
**Who you are****• Experienced in private banking:** You have 7–10 years of experience managing lending and deposit relationships for HNW and UHNW clients.
**• Educational background:** You have a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, or Economics (preferred).
**• Credit and investment expertise:** You have deep credit knowledge, experience working with investment portfolios, and an understanding of trust solutions.
**• Relationship-driven:** You excel at building and maintaining relationships with HNW and UHNW individuals, business owners, and corporate executives.
**• Risk-focused and analytical:** You can assess credit risk, structure lending solutions, and complete the necessary analysis and documentation for credit actions.
**• Technology proficient:** You are skilled in Microsoft Office, financial analysis, and modeling, with experience utilizing Salesforce for client management.
**• Team-oriented leader:** You have experience mentoring and managing a team in a collaborative environment, introducing appropriate partners and financial solutions.
**• Industry-savvy:** Experience advising business owners and corporate executives in Middle Market, Large Corporate, and/or Private Wealth is highly desired.
**• Formally trained in credit:** You have formal credit training or equivalent experience to support complex credit structuring.
**What success looks like*** We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, a vacation offering and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program* Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients* We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and developmentAt CIBC, we offer a competitive total rewards package. This role has an expected salary range of $170,000 - $225,000 for the St. Louis, MO market based on experience, qualifications, and location of the position. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component.
* CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com* You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.* We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program\*, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.* Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.* We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.
Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.
Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us. #J-18808-Ljbffr
As a **Private Banking Team Lead,** you will cultivate new and manage existing high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) client relationships, providing tailored banking and lending solutions. You will oversee a portfolio of relationships while leading a team of Private Bankers, ensuring strong sales execution, portfolio management, and adherence to risk standards.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with internal partners across CIBC Private Wealth Management and CIBC Commercial Banking to expand relationships and deliver a full range of financial services. Your leadership will drive profitable growth, deepen client relationships, and enhance the team’s performance in meeting lending and deposit needs.
**How you’ll succeed****• Lead and manage private banking relationships:** Oversee complex lending and deposit relationships for HNW and UHNW clients while guiding your team in portfolio management and business development.
**• Drive team success:** Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and day-to-day management of Private Bankers, ensuring a strong sales and risk management culture.
**• Expand client relationships:** Serve as a trusted advisor, actively identifying opportunities to offer customized lending, deposit, and wealth management solutions.
**• Ensure portfolio health and risk management:** Oversee portfolio reviews, past-due remediation, risk rating accuracy, and timely renewals for both your portfolio and your team’s.
**• Facilitate credit and underwriting processes:** Work closely with Underwriting, Group Portfolio Managers, and Credit Risk Management to structure deals that meet client needs while mitigating risk.
**• Leverage technology for client engagement:** Ensure Salesforce activity is up to date, tracking client interactions, opportunities, and referrals across the team.
**• Actively participate in the market:** Represent CIBC Private Wealth Management by engaging in local industry events and building new client relationships.
**• Maintain compliance and governance:** Hold your team accountable to policies and procedures while fostering a diverse and inclusive environment that reflects the CIBC brand.
**Who you are****• Experienced in private banking:** You have 7–10 years of experience managing lending and deposit relationships for HNW and UHNW clients.
**• Educational background:** You have a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, or Economics (preferred).
**• Credit and investment expertise:** You have deep credit knowledge, experience working with investment portfolios, and an understanding of trust solutions.
**• Relationship-driven:** You excel at building and maintaining relationships with HNW and UHNW individuals, business owners, and corporate executives.
**• Risk-focused and analytical:** You can assess credit risk, structure lending solutions, and complete the necessary analysis and documentation for credit actions.
**• Technology proficient:** You are skilled in Microsoft Office, financial analysis, and modeling, with experience utilizing Salesforce for client management.
**• Team-oriented leader:** You have experience mentoring and managing a team in a collaborative environment, introducing appropriate partners and financial solutions.
**• Industry-savvy:** Experience advising business owners and corporate executives in Middle Market, Large Corporate, and/or Private Wealth is highly desired.
**• Formally trained in credit:** You have formal credit training or equivalent experience to support complex credit structuring.
**What success looks like*** We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, a vacation offering and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program* Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients* We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and developmentAt CIBC, we offer a competitive total rewards package. This role has an expected salary range of $170,000 - $225,000 for the St. Louis, MO market based on experience, qualifications, and location of the position. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component.
* CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com* You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.* We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program\*, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.* Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.* We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.
Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.
Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us. #J-18808-Ljbffr