Job Summary

We are seeking a driven and client-focused Associate, Commodities Sales to join our Financial Markets team in London. The successful candidate will support the growth of our commodities franchise across Continental Europe, with a focus on energy, emissions, natural gas, metals, and agricultural products. You will develop and manage relationships with corporate clients, deliver innovative risk management and financing solutions, and contribute to revenue growth while ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a dynamic global commodities business, working closely with product specialists, relationship managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional client value.

Key Responsibilities

• To develop relationships with the client’s key decision makers through calling, provision of trade ideas and provision of relevant ideas to become a critical external resource for their decision-making processes around usage of financial markets instruments for commodities risk management.
• Deliver individual PnL targets in accordance with P3 objectives.
• Work closely with relationship managers to grow existing client relationships and originate new relationships for the bank.
• Maintain an up to date account plan for FM Commodity products for each client leveraging market data such as coalition to target appropriate wallet. Use to identify key growth areas and communicate these clearly and regularly to product partners.
• Contribute to the teams sales planning and targeting process through pro-active participation in regular sales teams meetings.
• Work closely with the FM Commodity Specialist teams globally to identify client opportunities across the bank’s footprint.
• Work closely with local FM generalist teams to identify and execute cross sell opportunities.
• Ensure appropriate returns for the commodities franchise overall and specific client relationships collaborating with generalist sales teams in this regard.
• Provide seamless backup to other sales team members when they’re away from the desk.
• Grow and develop knowledge of all commodities sectors.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in relevant field.
• Demonstrated ambitious, motivated and energetic attitude.
• Experience in financial markets and sales.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Effectively managing multiple priorities while building trusted client relationships and delivering commercial results.

Advantages:

• AMF certification (or equivalent regulatory qualification).
• Familarity with commodities asset classes.
• Fluency in French, German, Chinese.
• Experience working in a global banking environment, diverse jurisdictions, with cross-border collaboration.
• Ability to effectively engage with international clients.

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.

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