Job Description

We’re looking for a dynamic and client-focused Senior Business Development Manager to join our team as an Associate Director. In this role, you’ll grow Priority and International client base by introducing new clients, deliver holistic financial solutions, and drive sustainable business growth. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and care about long-term client impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and expand Africa region strategy to bring on new relationships
• Identify new opportunities through referrals, market insights, and proactive outreach.
• Complete client journey to onboard with the Bank and ensure clients needs are met throughout.
• Partner closely with investment and mortgage specialists to deliver seamless client experiences.
• Maintain robust compliance standards including CDD, KYC, AML and regulatory requirements.
• Stay on top of market trends, competitor activity, and client needs to support continuous improvement.
• Champion strong risk management and uphold the highest standards of ethics and conduct.
• Collaborate across teams, support talent development, and share best practices.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Strong relationship-building skills
• Solid understanding of wealth management, credit, and banking products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage tight timelines, and deliver consistently.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making ability.
• Skilled in handling complex client instructions and navigating multi-cultural environments.
• Team-oriented mindset with a willingness to support colleagues and contribute to wider team goals.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record in meeting business development and revenue targets.
• Valid Jersey work rights/permit - preferred
• Relevant relationship management training and professional development.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.