The client is seeking an SVP – Mortgage Lending to provide strategic leadership for all mortgage lending operations. This executive-level role will develop and execute complex mortgage strategies aligned with the organization’s vision, mission, and brand. The SVP will collaborate with the leadership team to help shape corporate culture, strategic plans, tactics, budgets, and organizational priorities.
Key responsibilities include providing executive leadership across lending operations, overseeing the lending operating department from origination through processing, underwriting, servicing, and closing, and improving business performance efficiency through innovation to reduce origination costs. The SVP will develop and execute strategies to enhance service levels, increase revenue and productivity, and support solution development, while planning process improvement initiatives, managing budgets and tactics, and aligning forecasting and staffing needs with growth and loan volume.
The SVP will establish, monitor, and report on operating activity and key metrics to ensure processes are efficient, effective, and compliant with quality standards, applicable laws and regulations, and investor guidelines. The role also requires expert guidance and coaching to advance team performance, along with leadership and communication skills, the ability to lead a team, analyze complex situations, and problem solve, and experience developing and managing internal controls. Qualifications include a bachelor’s degree (preferred), five or more years of senior management experience in the mortgage industry, ten or more years of technical experience in mortgage lending operations, working knowledge of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA/VA loans, and maintaining required licensing requirements for control person purposes; experience with Encompass may be preferred.