Sales, Senior Director in London

Cboe Clear Europe N.V. is a multi-asset class central counterparty clearing Cash Equities and Securities Financing Transactions (SFT). It provides protection to both parties in a trade, ensuring the trade will settle at the agreed price even if one party defaults on its obligations. The organization is a critical European Financial Market Infrastructure, dynamic, fast-growing, and under strict supervision of financial regulators. The culture is professional, collaborative, and action-oriented. Cboe Clear Europe is 100% owned by Cboe Global Markets.

At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We’re building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

The Commercial & Business Development Team is hiring for a Senior Sales Director, Securities Financing Transactions. Being experienced in post trade whilst having knowledge of execution and market infrastructure within the SFT industry, you will be responsible for developing the SFT franchise, utilizing front office and post trade relationships and partnering with SFT clients and potential partners, advocating new initiatives, services and growing the business.

This role reports to the Head of Commercial & Business Development on the execution of the sales strategy, whilst supporting the Head of Product in the long-term SFT Product Strategy and Roadmap.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Growing the business for the SFT franchise
• Representing the company at conferences and being able to comfortably participate in panels, promoting the business and promoting market advocacy
• Responsible for market engagement, ensuring Cboe Clear is close to key market and regulatory developments and analyzing the change, impact and/or opportunity to develop partnerships and new strategies
• Support to colleagues in the Commercial & Business Development team on cross product sales and expertise in SFT, while working closely with the wider Product Management and SFT Operations in the overall maintenance and roll-out of the SFT product.

The ideal candidate has:

• Over 10 years financial services industry experience particularly within the SFT industry.
• Knowledge of front office and post trade functionality in securities finance transactions by having worked for a related securities lending infrastructure service provider, agent lender or borrower, in a sales, relationship or client management role.
• Experience in a Market Infrastructure or Investment Banks, with knowledge of front office and post trade functionality, in cash equities (essential) and equity derivatives and ETFs (desirable).
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities are required, along with the capacity to create client presentations and develop comprehensive business cases.
• Demonstrated expertise in networking and cultivating professional relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and project management skills, ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Willingness to travel

Benefits and Perks

We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:

• Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
• Pension Plan
• Enhanced paid parental leave to support parents
• Corporate Gym Membership
• 25 days holiday per year per holiday year for full time employees, increasing with length of service at a rate of one extra day per completed years’ service, up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee referral bonus program
• Complimentary lunch, snacks and drinks in any Cboe office
• Paid tuition assistance and education opportunities
• Generous charitable giving company match
• Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities

More About Cboe Europe

We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed.

We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.

Learn more about life at Cboe on our website and LinkedIn.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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