Job Summary:

We are looking for a Trade Utilization Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for proactively reaching out to existing clients to broaden relationships and deepen wallet share, as well as driving client calling and farming activities to defend, maintain, replenish, and grow utilization for existing Trade Finance credit facilities and flow opportunities. They will report to the designated reporting structure and should have a comprehensive understanding of Trade Finance products and relevant skills. Additionally, the candidate should possess the required qualifications. At our bank, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of success, and we are looking for someone who embodies these values.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively reach out to existing clients to broaden relationships and deepen wallet share

• Drive client calling/farming activities to defend, maintain, replenish, and grow utilization for existing Trade Finance credit facilities and flow opportunities

• Explore opportunities with non-clients around FI products

• Devise a consistent but adaptive client calling and follow-up plan for targeted clients, with the goal to maintain and grow A&Cs

• Gain insights on client's business requirements to build leads for upsell/cross-sell

• Build relationships with key internal stakeholders, including Product Management, Trade Operations, Trade Sales, Trade distribution, Compliance, Credit, and Legal

• Provide reporting support, tracking, and reporting as required

• Ensure compliance with all AML, KYC, and all other Compliance requirements

• Keep abreast of customers' needs, trends, and product/market intelligence for new product developments/enhancements, strengthening SCB's competitive position in this field

• Provide feedback to management regarding client needs, trends, and market intelligence

Key Criteria:

• 5 years of client-facing experience, with particular emphasis on quota-carrying roles

• Good working knowledge of Trade Finance products, including but not limited to: Import and Export Letters of Credit, Standby LCs/Guarantees, Invoice Financing, Supplier Finance, Receivables Finance, Working Capital

• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across different functions to drive a collective agenda across multiple products and stakeholders

Essential Competencies:

• Knowledge of Product Line

• Marketing Strategy and Positioning

• Planning: Tactical, Strategic

• Disruptive Innovation

• Business Markets

• Business Performance Management

Additional Assets:

• Past experience in Sales, Product Management, Trade Operations, or Client Service

• Good interpersonal and communication skills (both in person and over phone and digital channels) and able to build rapport with client portfolio

• Ability to push through rejections and stay resilient and positive are key character and attitude traits for the role

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• 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.

Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Expected annual base pay range for the role is $124,000 USD to $155,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

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