Associate Director, Macro Sales, Sponsors in London

The Associate Director, Macro Sales, Sponsors role at Standard Chartered is a critical position focused on driving the growth of our Macro Sales Sponsors segment on a global scale. This dynamic role involves partnering with major clients including large private equity firms, alternate investment managers, insurance companies, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds primarily in the Western markets, providing them with macro products - such as foreign exchange, interest rate, money market, credit, commodities and other bespoke solutions - to meet our client's risk management and investment needs.

Our sales team builds deep, trusted relationships, leveraging our bank expertise to deliver targeted solutions to our clients. The successful candidate will exhibit strong client relationship skills as well as good knowledge of macro products. They will have exceptional attention to detail and possess advanced skills in communication and presentation, including market analysis PowerPoint, enabling effective marketing of financial market products to diverse client groups. A strong analytical and technical mindset combined with an entrepreneurial spirit and sound risk awareness are essential to thrive. The role offers exposure to multi-asset classes, supporting both flow and non-flow transactions, and includes responsibilities related to client engagement, trade execution, and portfolio structuring.

This position is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual looking to expand their expertise in multi-asset financial products while playing a pivotal role within a global banking institution dedicated to innovation, client success, and sustainable growth.

• Direct client and P&L accountability with requirement to achieve individual revenue targets and contribute to team growth objectives.
• Develop and prepare comprehensive client presentations featuring market updates, cutting-edge research, and actionable trading insights to support client engagements and business development.
• Collaborate with Relationship Managers to identify and originate new client opportunities, driving awareness and adoption of Financial Market products.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams—including Sales, Research, Trading, and Structuring—to understand client businesses, tailor product offerings, and develop strategic client engagement plans.
• Engage proactively with Financial Markets Structuring teams to deliver innovative client risk solutions that cater to complex investment and hedging requirements.
• Manage daily flow business activities diligently, meeting all compliance and procedural standards while maintaining comprehensive documentation and reporting.
• Promote and increase volumes through digital channels by advocating for bank trading platforms and streamlining transaction workflows.
• Expand and nurture client relationships by marketing a broad range of Financial Market products including FX, Options, Interest Rates, and Money Market instruments.
• Work collaboratively to drive client engagement for Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) optimisation initiatives, aiming to improve the overall Return on Risk Weighted Assets (RoRWA) for Financial Market products.

• Proven direct front-office sales experience dealing macro products with clients within financial markets.
• In-depth practical knowledge of FX derivatives and interest rate derivatives essential for product discussions and sales.
• FCA licensing or equivalent regulatory certification demonstrating compliance and professional standards proficiency.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong initiative, capable of identifying and capitalising on new business opportunities.
• Highly ambitious and proactive approach, consistently driven to exceed targets and deliver exceptional service.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven track record of engaging clients effectively and professionally.
• Native-level proficiency in English required; additional language skills in French or Spanish considered advantageous.
• Familiarity with complex financial structures such as options pricing (rates and FX), deal contingent structures, and asset swaps is a plus.
• Advantageous to have understanding or exposure to commodities derivatives and eagerness to develop technical market knowledge further.

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.

• 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.

• 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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