Branch Manager (BDGM) 6 Posts at Equity Bank Tanzania

The job title is Branch Manager (BDGM), reporting to the Head of Retail. It is a Manager/Senior Manager function level, with 6 vacancies located in New Branches: Zanzibar, Songea, Kigoma, Masaki, Tanga, and Arusha.

The basic purpose of the role is to provide leadership to achieve high performance by ensuring employee development, engagement, and performance management to deliver organization objectives and goals. It also involves growing the company's market share by identifying new markets and creating unique customer products/services intimacy experiences, gathering intelligence on customers, competitors, and market trends through research, and formulating and implementing business development strategies and marketing plans.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for business development and marketing activities for overall business growth (on deposit, alternative banking channels, and quality loan portfolio).
• Assessing key markets and business opportunities for bank's products and services.
• Formulating and implementing business development strategies and marketing plans.
• Intelligence gathering on customers, competitors, and market trends through research.
• Handling business inquiries and generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, and proposal writing.
• Developing new revenue streams while optimizing income from existing lines through innovative marketing and rapid exploitation of changing customer needs and tastes (to grow profitability for the bank).
• Growing the company's market share by identifying new markets and creating unique customer products/services intimacy experiences.
• Grow the number of accounts, carded customers, agents, and merchants.
• Managing and monitoring the branch budget.
• Monitoring the existing business portfolio and new accounts performance.
• Provide leadership to achieve high performance by ensuring employee development, employee engagement, and performance management to deliver organization objectives and goals.
• Fostering partnerships and maintaining business relations with key industry players.
• Work with other departments on product/service enhancement and development to ensure customers are delighted.
• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor in line with the job description.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Skills:

• Strong leadership, mentorship, and coaching skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of Bank risks and their mitigation.
• Knowledge of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) policy guidelines.
• High personal standards, goal-oriented, and with personal initiative.
• Good understanding of bank Policies and Procedures.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Work Experience:

• 5+ years in banking.
• Focus on business development and relationship management.
• At least 2 years in a supervisory or managerial role.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field from a reputable college/university.
• MBA preferred.

Apply by 17th November 2025 email [email protected]