Chief Marketing Officer

Responsibilities

• Manages a team of professionals in a customer-centric culture to excel in a fast-paced environment.
• Coaches, develops, and conducts performance management activities with direct and indirect reports.
• Identifies high-potential employees for advanced training and development opportunities.
• Effectively manages poor performers.
• Establishes and leads the enterprise marketing vision and strategy aligned to growth, profitability, and customer experience objectives
• Designs and executes the annual enterprise marketing plan including priorities, investment strategy, forecasts, budgets, and performance measurement
• Differentiates Midland States Bank from competitors and creates strong market preference across target customer segments and geographies
• Serves as custodian of the Bank’s brand ensuring consistency, differentiation, and relevance across all customer, employee, and community touchpoints
• Aligns marketing strategy with enterprise growth priorities across all lines of business, ensuring close partnership with sales, product, and distribution teams
• Partners closely with executive and senior leadership, line of business and department leaders to ensure enterprise alignment and leverage across initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 12+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience, including senior or executive‑level responsibility.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise‑wide marketing functions within financial services or similarly regulated industries preferred.
• Proven experience integrating brand, digital marketing, performance marketing, and analytics to drive measurable growth.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership teams and presenting to senior management or Boards.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, market expansion, or acquisition integration preferred.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to instruct others, interpret documents, and write reports and correspondence.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to deal with complex problems involving multiple facets and variables in non-standardized situations.

Preferred

• MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, market expansion, or acquisition integration preferred.

Benefits

• comprehensive healthcare, well-being benefits, paid family leave as well as generous paid time off.
• Total Rewards also include banking perks, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401K plan with company match and may include the opportunity to participate in our Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation plan.