Job Summary

As a Junior Relationship Manager you will play a critical role in supporting the Senior Relationship Managers in managing strategic client relationships across our European client portfolio of Banks, Broker Dealers, and Fintechs. Additionally, you will independently manage your own portfolio of smaller clients. This hybrid role offers a unique opportunity to grow into a strategic client partner by driving client engagement, revenue generation, and end-to-end relationship management while maintaining the highest risk and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and execute the global business strategy together with Senior Relationship Managers, translating it into actionable client-level plans.
• Manage a defined client portfolio, contributing to account planning and strategic initiatives.
• Support client engagement across senior and C-suite levels, positioning Standard Chartered as a trusted advisor.
• Originate new business opportunities by leveraging our institutional offerings across our products, including e.g. Financial Markets, DCM, Payments & Trade Finance as well as Securities Services
• Identify cross-sell opportunities across multiple product lines and coordinate with internal product partners.
• Ensure that all client interactions are aligned with internal policies and external regulations (AML, CDD, Credit).
• Maintain strong internal stakeholder relationships (Credit, Legal, Compliance, Risk).

Skills and Experience

Core Competencies:

• Prior experience in client relationship management / coverage or in a Sales role in Financial Markets/DCM or Transaction Banking covering Financial Institutions
• Knowledge of Institutional Clients (Banks, Broker Dealers, Fintechs)
• Financial Crime Risk & Credit Awareness
• Client Prospecting & Opportunity Development

Technical Proficiency:

• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Solid understanding of Financial Markets and/or Transaction Banking Products
• Solid understanding of regulatory and compliance standards within banking

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Banking, Finance or a related field
• Fluent in English and German (written and verbal)

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.