Job Summary

Lead and drive the Financial Sponsors Coverage business across Europe, accountable for regional strategy execution, client relationship management, revenue growth, and risk management in line with the Group and global Financial Sponsors strategy. The role partners closely with the Global Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage, Global Product teams, and regional Coverage leadership to deliver sustainable growth, deepen client relationships, and ensure disciplined risk, conduct, and governance standards across the Europe portfolio.

Responsibilities

•    Own and execute the Financial Sponsors Coverage strategy and Account Plans across Europe, aligned to the global Financial Sponsors and CIB strategic direction.
•    Contribute to the development of global Financial Sponsors strategy by providing regional market insight, client intelligence, and performance feedback.
•    Identify priority clients, sectors, and opportunities within Europe, balancing growth ambitions with risk, capital, and return considerations.
•    Partner with regional and global stakeholders to ensure consistent client value propositions and coordinated coverage across products and geographies.

•    Accountable for delivering Financial Sponsors Coverage revenue, cost, and balance sheet objectives across Europe, in line with agreed targets.
•    Drive origination, cross sell, and wallet share growth by partnering with Global Product teams and regional Coverage colleagues.
•    Monitor financial performance against targets, ensuring disciplined management of RWA, returns, and long term economic revenue objectives.
•    Build and maintain senior level client relationships with key Financial Sponsor clients in Europe, managing conflicts transparently and fairly.
•    Act as a senior escalation point for significant client issues within the region, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate root cause analysis.

•    Ensure Financial Sponsors Coverage activities across Europe operate within the Group’s process universe, policies, and control standards.
•    Drive consistent and efficient front to back processes across the region, working with Credit, Risk, Operations, Legal & Compliance, Technology, and Product partners.
•    Support the implementation of global initiatives, systems, and infrastructure changes within Europe, providing regional input where appropriate.
•    Ensure the business is operated in a safe, controlled, and scalable manner, fit for sustainable growth.

•    Provide strong leadership to the Financial Sponsors Coverage team across Europe, setting clear direction and role modeling the Bank’s values and conduct standards.

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.