Director, Commodity Structuring in London

As a Director in Commodity Structuring at Standard Chartered, you will play a pivotal role in expanding and enhancing our commodities business across Europe and the Americas. This role demands a professional who can blend deep market knowledge with innovative thinking to develop bespoke financial solutions that meet our clients' diverse needs. You will work closely with sales, structuring, and trading teams to craft complex derivatives and financing products that not only align with the bank’s strategic objectives but also adhere to robust risk management practices. This position offers an exciting opportunity to drive sustainable business growth in a fast-evolving marketplace. You will be instrumental in identifying new client opportunities, translating market trends into actionable business strategies, and leveraging your expertise to provide tailored solutions that address various commodity market exposures. The role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills to foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring the delivery of market-leading products and services. If you are passionate about commodities, thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment, and possess a keen commercial mindset, this role offers a platform to make a significant impact within a global financial institution.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and expand the commodities business portfolio for clients throughout Europe and the Americas, incorporating global product development and replication strategies.
• Originate and execute financial market business leveraging expertise in derivatives-based solutions, focusing on commodity-linked financing tailored to client needs.
• Support and mentor junior team members in designing and delivering bespoke derivatives and financing solutions, fostering their professional development and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Collaborate closely with structuring teams, sales, and traders to innovate and implement cutting‑edge product structures and financing options designed to drive growth in the commodities and financing sectors.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills and team‑oriented approach, promoting seamless deal execution and effective client engagement.
• Maintain an acute understanding of the Group Business strategy, contributing to product innovation and enhancement that aligns with overarching business goals.
• Drive service excellence by offering holistic hedging strategies and bespoke solutions, ensuring client satisfaction and long‑term partnerships.
• Generate ideas and support sales teams in translating unique client requirements into adaptable, scalable, and compliant financial products.
• Foster long‑term relationships with key corporate, business banking, and investor clients, identifying new avenues for business expansion and revenue growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to explore and establish new business channels, ensuring sustainable commercial success.
• Analyze and quantify client exposures based on balance sheets, cash flow, and investments, devising tailored risk‑management and hedging strategies to mitigate market risks effectively.
• Partner with non‑specialist market sales teams to expand business opportunities and solidify the bank’s positioning in the commodities market.

Qualifications

• Professional experience within a large banking institution, ideally with a focus on commodities structuring and structured finance.
• Strong foundational knowledge of physical commodities and structured derivatives, including institutional market practices and regulatory considerations.
• Background in physical commodities financing is highly preferred, reflecting familiarity with the operational and financial landscape of commodity markets.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a client‑focused and goal‑oriented approach, demonstrating initiative and resilience in a competitive market.
• Robust understanding of credit risk, market risk, and risk controls, including practical application of credit assessment methodologies in commodities financing.
• Familiarity with physical commodities financing platforms and relevant technology tools used for structuring and risk management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of fostering strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Relevant professional qualifications or certifications in finance, risk management, or commodities markets would be advantageous.

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 talent 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.

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