In this role, you will:
- Manage and develop teams of individual contributors and managers in roles with moderate work complexity and risk in the Operations functional area
- Work with more experienced management to develop and execute business strategies
- Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement and risk control development within the Operations functional area
- Develop and implement business unit strategies
- Provide expertise for technical, operational and processing functions related to business unit
- Determine appropriate strategy and actions of Operation management functional team to meet moderate to high risk deliverables
- Interpret and develop policies and procedures for functions with moderate complexity within scope of responsibility across business lines or functional areas
- Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
- Lead team to achieve objectives
- Engage and influence stakeholders, internal partners and peers associated with the function or affected by its outcomes
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Operations
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years of Operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3+ years of management or leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
- 6+ years of Lending experience with 5+ years of managing Credit Underwriting function at scale
- 3+ years of people management experience
- In depth understanding of Home Lending processes, Mortgage production: Origination, Applications, Processing, Underwriting, Closing and Funding
- Candidate having underwriter credit authority in the past is preferred
- College graduate
- Amenable to work on US shift or night shift
Job Expectations:
- Manage and develop a team of multiple US Residential Underwriting, Processing, Closing teams while ensuring successful planning, integration, impasse resolution, and measurement of operations with moderate to high complexity and visibility
- Engage functional leaders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo's policies and business line objectives
- Identify potential risks when implementing change along with developing mitigation strategies and plans
- Interpret procedures and processes, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of programs, services, and initiatives that are significant in scope, complexity, and risk
- Collaborate with and influence functional business partners, leaders, and executive management to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
- Lead initiatives for HLO Retail Production team
- Engage LOB partners at a strategic level for Underwriting and HLO Retail
- Manage on-going account relationships
- Conceptualize, agree and drive strategies to add value to the business
- Provides leadership in the integration / implementation of programs / services / initiatives with cross functional business partners, recognizing the significance of competing priorities and strategies and adjusting as necessary
- Interacts with leadership and stakeholders in India and Stateside to establish strategic plans and objectives for program management
- To build and structure a comprehensive organizational design
- Handle critical and complex manufacturing tasks as part of the fulfillment transformation model
- Provide insights and assist leaders in building effective process metrics
- Manage Business Initiatives and series of programs associated with business strategies to obtain benefits and controls
- Responsible for leading project teams and managing all activities in project life cycle across multiple departments within Retail Line of Business
- Works with users to understand complex problems and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines
- Develops metrics and evaluates performance of processes, programs, and initiatives
- Make decisions and resolve issues related to business operations under direction of the Underwriting management
- Ability to understand data, identify gaps and generate timely alerts to reduce / eliminate gaps / risks
- Proactively engage with internal bank stakeholders, third parties, settlement agents via telephone to gather necessary information, documentation, clarify information & resolve underwriting conditions
- Ability to conduct clear and customer centric telephone conversations to explain underwriting decisions, documentation requirements and next steps in the mortgage process
- Collaborate cross functionally with Underwriting, Processing, Closing & Sales teams for seamless communication and customer satisfaction
29 Sep 2025
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.