Trade Sales - Structured Trade & Commodities Finance

Title: Trade Sales - Structured Trade & Commodities Finance

Client: International Corporate and Investment Bank

Location: London

Job Summary: You will have the responsibility of originating and executing, Trade transactions in assigned jurisdictions working towards asset generation targets. You will be a key element of developing the countries trade capabilities and strategy. You will proactively contributing to achieve the banks strategic Transaction Banking goals and Supporting the Transaction Banking product cross-sell mainly within Structured trade finance or structured commodity finance transactions

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and create new business opportunities to grow the client base and market share.
• Develop and implement marketing and customer call plans with respect to Trade products across the bank to achieve the agreed financial targets.
• Responsible for trade deal origination, deal execution.
• Develop and maintain strong deal pipeline and trade target market to enhance the overall bank client proposal on bank markets.
• Actively participate and represent bank on trade forums.
• Establish personal relationships with trade customers.
• Drive the transaction execution process and assume deal ownership.
• Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with all other related departments and units in UK to achieve the Sales goals.
• Implement solutions with respect to trade products and harmonize the initiatives with the transaction banking business objectives in the UK
• Create customer-focused presentations, Trade pitch books and enhance banks ability to deliver a powerful and compelling trade proposition to its current and targeted trade customers.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in banking.
• University graduate (Bachelor’s degree) preferably with a Major in Finance, Banking, Economics, Mathematics, or Business Administration (related field of study), Masters preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English (Additional fluency in Arabic is useful)
• MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project and cross functional relationships.