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Job Description

The Planning Consultant is responsible for advancing the wealth planning experience across Private Wealth Management, Ascent, and Personal Trust by providing planning expertise, coaching, training, and consulting support to relationship managers and business partners.

This role serves as a trusted advisor and field-facing planning resource, helping teams deepen planning conversations, identify client opportunities, strengthen planning acumen, and improve adoption of planning best practices. The consultant partners directly with advisors, private wealth advisors, trust officers, and business leaders to deliver education, coaching, and strategic guidance that drives business growth and enhances the client experience.

The Planning Consultant develops and delivers training programs, coaching strategies, educational content, and field readiness initiatives that increase planning knowledge, confidence, and effectiveness. The role also collaborates with stakeholders to identify opportunities to enhance planning capabilities, support new hire onboarding, and process improvement.

In addition, the consultant provides subject matter expertise on complex planning topics, conducts quality reviews and case consultation, and helps ensure planning practices remain aligned with business objectives and risk management expectations.

Basic Qualifications:

-Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

-10 or more years of wealth management experience

Preferred Skills/Experience:

- Deep knowledge of wealth planning and high net worth strategies
- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop financial professionals

- Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with relationship managers

- Experience developing training curriculum, educational materials, coaching, and/or field communications

- Strong knowledge of planning technology, planning processes, and advisor workflow

- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with experience leveraging data and reporting to drive decision making.

Location expectations 

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. Position can be located in Minneapolis or Charlotte.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.