The Role Responsibilities

As a Business Acquisition Manager, you will play a critical role in expanding Standard Chartered's customer base by sourcing New to Bank (NTB) Priority Banking customers through a strategic and need-based approach. This role requires dynamic engagement with potential clients to introduce them to our banking solutions and to facilitate smooth handovers to the Relationship Manager (RM) channel for asset under management (AUM) qualification.

• Drive and achieve sales targets aligned with new business acquisition goals, ensuring measurable growth in the priority banking segment.
• Conduct thorough marketing and targeted telemarketing campaigns using provided leads, and perform account management activities to nurture prospects towards meeting the AUM qualification threshold.
• Actively participate in client-facing events such as market outlook seminars, lifestyle events, and year-end gatherings for Priority and Commercial Clients, facilitating networking opportunities and expanding referral channels.
• Support sales promotions and other marketing activities aimed at exceeding defined sales targets, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to maximize impact.
• Prepare, analyse, and consolidate detailed sales activity reports to provide insights on market trends, client engagement metrics, and sales performance.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of market conditions and customer needs to adapt strategies proactively and identify emerging opportunities.

This position demands a high degree of proactivity, excellent communication skills, and a customer-centric mindset to build lasting client relationships and contribute to the bank's strategic growth initiatives.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum of 1 year of proven experience in the financial services sector or related sales and service industries, demonstrating notable success in customer acquisition and relationship management.
• A comprehensive understanding of financial products and a strong familiarity with the geographic and demographic characteristics of the branch’s marketing area.
• Exceptional ability to execute plans with a strong performance orientation and a passion for achieving and surpassing set sales goals.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of engaging diverse clients and internal stakeholders with professionalism and empathy.
• High levels of self-motivation and resilience, able to handle rejection positively and adapt in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Demonstrated aptitude for building rapport quickly and providing solutions tailored to clients’ unique financial needs.
• Capable of working collaboratively within a team while maintaining individual accountability for results.

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.
• 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.