Job Summary:

As Director, International Corporates, you will focus on developing the Italian Corporates market across various sectors (Luxury, Utilities, Energy, Metals). You will manage and onboard clients autonomously while supporting Senior Bankers in business origination and ensuring client profitability. 

Key Responsibilities

- Originate new business through client research, pitch preparation, and industry analysis.
- Manage client onboarding and build long-term relationships.
- Support account planning, pipeline maintenance, and deal execution.
- Provide client and market analysis, and prepare high-quality briefing notes.
- Ensure compliance with sales discipline, governance, and risk management standards.
- Collaborate with Product Partners and internal stakeholders to drive cross-sell opportunities.
- Provide direct sales support to the Senior Banker/Banker on all origination activities for the assigned RM client portfolio.​
- Proactive assistance to the Senior Banker/Banker with transactional support on client research and meeting preparation/documentation ie pitch book preparation, research into industry trends etc; coordinating with product and other key stakeholders across the network to ensure client materials are of the highest quality and client focused
- Client meeting preparation and execution including logistics if attending client meetings in partnership with the Banker 
- Prepare high-quality structured Briefing notes for Senior management engagement. Liaise with Senior Management teams to ensure preparedness
- Proactively follow up on Southern Europe Business /Economic markets events related to the portfolio

Qualifications & Skills

- Bachelor’s degree in Banking or Finance (preferred).
- 5–10 years of banking experience with knowledge of Italian markets.
- Fluency in English, Italian, and ideally French.
- Strong client relationship, analytical, and deal management skills.

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.