Job Summary
This role is responsible for growing and managing the Sovereign, Supranational & Agency (SSA) Eurobond trading franchise, with a primary focus on European markets. The individual will lead market-making and trading activities across primary and secondary SSA bonds, develop trading strategies, manage client order flow, and work closely with Sales, Relationship Managers, and other stakeholders to deepen client relationships and identify new business opportunities. The role carries responsibility for achieving revenue targets, enhancing the bank's market presence through competitive pricing, and driving process automation and RWA optimisation initiatives.
The successful candidate will maintain a strong focus on risk management, governance, regulatory compliance, and conduct standards, ensuring adherence to internal policies and external regulations. They will collaborate extensively with global trading, sales, research, structuring, risk, and support teams while contributing to continuous process improvement and promoting effective financial markets and fair client outcomes.
Strategy
• Grow the Sovereign, Supranational & Agency Eurobonds franchise mainly in Europe.
• Effectively market make and trade in SSA bonds, both primary and secondary.
• Manage the implementation of trading strategies and the servicing of customer order flow
• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role
• Proactively engage in process improvements, eg: the automation of product offering to Clients
• Drive RWA optimisation to improve the overall FM product RoRWA
Business
• Achieving assigned full year budget as per annual P3 document
• To increase SCB’s visibility through competitive pricing in bonds for our clients globally
• To deepen existing client relationships through regular conversations on colour and trade ideas
• To work with and Sales/RM to identify new prospects and client opportunities
Skills and Experience
• Strong experience trading Sovereign, Supranational & Agency (SSA) bonds.
• Proven track record of market making, risk-taking, and executing trading strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to grow a trading franchise, generate revenue, and deliver against annual budget and profitability targets.
• Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with Sales, Relationship Managers, Research, Structuring, and Risk teams.
• Solid understanding of market risk, regulatory requirements, governance frameworks, and compliance standards within a global banking environment.
• Knowledge of balance sheet optimisation and capital efficiency initiatives, including RWA optimisation and return enhancement strategies
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.
