Ameriprise Financial

Branch Manager

Posted on: 20 Oct 2021

Irvine, CA

Job Description

Job Description

The Branch Manager role leads one or more Ameriprise owned branch offices. They are responsible to understand the local market and execute a business plan to growth the branch profitably. Key responsibilities include growth of existing advisor practices through business plan coaching on key revenue drivers, bringing new talent to the organization through successful recruiting and acquiring of external practices, leading with integrity, and developing a strong culture to optimize relationships and resources within the office.

Responsibilities

Implement national recruiting strategy. Recruit high quality experienced advisors to your branch. Actively generate leads into local area pipeline and manage the end-to-end candidate experience. Develop branch’s unique value proposition and articulate to candidates. Execute on onboarding and ramp-up plans that drives growth.

Drive profitable organic growth of the branch office key metrics through active leadership, coaching, and delivery of the Ameriprise Client Experience. Inspect results regularly and provide systematic coaching to advisors in the branch on ongoing business planning, client acquisition, advice, investment solutions, external practice acquisition, and more.

Lead the branch with integrity. Perform front-line supervision to ensure sales activities are appropriately based on client objectives, goals, and risk tolerance. Anticipates, manages, and resolves risk items to ensure the interests of the client. 

Develop strong local office culture, including a culture of peer learning and comradery; achievement orientation; growth and continuous development.  Ensure Ameriprise core values are upheld - client focus, integrity always, excellence in all we do, and giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

Maintain or build personal wealth management practice serving clients through the Ameriprise Client Experience.  Lead from the front and be a role model for others in how you serve your clients and run your practice.  

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree

Obtain and maintain appropriate registrations to provide oversight on broker/dealer operations and develop advisor training. 

Active FINRA Series 7
Active FINRA Series 24, or 9/10
Active State Securities Agent Registration (S63 or S66) 
Active IAR S65/S66
Insurance (life and variable)

Proven success driving organic growth with advisors, proven leadership skills and ability to drive & motivate a large organization to achieve results

Business planning and strategic management skills

Excellent compliance record and knowledge of compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven success driving business growth.

Proven leadership skills and ability to drive and motivate an organization to achieve results.

Demonstrated sales success with proven ability to acquire clients and close business, self driven and achievement oriented.

Ability to execute a playbook to drive results, strong presentation skills.

P&L expense management and ability to analyze data and reports to determine business opportunities. 

Knowledgeable and able to develop networks within the community
Excellent compliance record

Masters degree and/or relevant industry designations preferred (e.g. CFP)

Ameriprise Financial

Minneapolis, MN

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services to individual and institutional clients in the United States and internationally. It operates through five segments: Advice & Wealth Management, Asset Management, Annuities, Protection, and Corporate & Other. The Advice & Wealth Management segment provides financial planning and advice, as well as full-service brokerage services primarily to retail clients through its advisors. The Asset Management segment offers investment management and advice, and investment products to retail, high net worth, and institutional clients through unaffiliated third party financial institutions and institutional sales force. Its products also include U.S. mutual funds and their non-U.S. equivalents, exchange-traded funds, variable product funds underlying insurance, and annuity separate accounts; and institutional asset management products, such as traditional asset classes, separately managed accounts, individually managed accounts, collateralized loan obligations, hedge funds, collective funds, and property funds.

The Annuities segment provides variable and fixed annuity products to individual clients through affiliated and unaffiliated advisors, and financial institutions. The Protection segment offers various products to address the protection and risk management needs of retail clients, including life, disability income, and property casualty insurance through advisors and affinity relationships.

The Corporate & Other segment consist of long term care business, net investment income or loss on corporate level assets. The company was formerly known as American Express Financial Corporation and changed its name to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. in September 2005. Ameriprise Financial, Inc. was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.