Job Summary

We are seeking an Associate Director of Investor Sales with a strong focus on emerging and developing markets. This is a client-facing role, engaging primarily with hedge funds and asset managers, where you will be responsible for originating and delivering strategic macro trade ideas — from generation through to execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the Macro Sales strategy targeting UK Institutional clients, including hedge funds and asset managers, within Standard Chartered Bank’s (SCB) footprint to drive growth in SCB’s client revenues.
• Develop and maintain a strong partnership with Trading, Structuring, Research, Corporate & Institutional Coverage, Transaction Banking & other key stakeholders across the Bank. 
• Appropriately deliver SCB’s capabilities to clients through face to face meetings, conferences, and calls to determine Financial Market needs, as applicable.
• Engage sales team locally and globally to increase key global account revenue.
• Deepen investor relationships and improve dialogue around market ideas with key clients through increased client contact.
• Identify and cultivate prospective accounts with the goal of growing the FX, interest rate and credit business.
• Provide product solutions in FX, rates, or credit, based on individual knowledge and competency.
• Emphasis on cross asset and cross border collaboration in order to maximize client service and returns. 

Qualifications

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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