Associate Director, Priority Banking

Standard Chartered Plc; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered plc in Dubai seeks an experienced Sales and Relationship Manager to build strategic client portfolios, onboard new clients and manage ongoing wealth and banking relationships across the UAE region.

You will drive revenue through targeted business development, deliver excellent service, and ensure compliance with anti-money laundering and risk controls while leveraging the bank's digital platforms.

Qualifications

• Experienced sales and relationship management in banking and investments.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to onboard new clients and service complex portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic plans for revenue generation and client acquisition.
• Onboard NTB clients through Branches and Direct Sales teams.
• Maintain Sales MIS and track calls, prospects, and business won.
• Deliver exceptional customer service and resolve complaints.
• Ensure compliance with anti-money laundering and risk procedures.
• Collaborate with risk and control partners to set expectations for the team.

Skills

Relationship management

Negotiation

Communication

Banking products

Job description

Our team consists of 25,000 colleagues, spread across 35 countries. We believe in transformation – embracing agile and new ways of working together, which helps us to truly ‘think client’ and serve millions of our affluent and emerging affluent clients, across the world. Our clients include individuals and small businesses, and we support them with a range of traditional banking services, including investment, credit and wealth planning solutions.

We offer career opportunities for relationship managers, customer service specialists, product and segment management, sales and wealth planning.

If you’re looking to unlock new job growth opportunities, Standard Chartered Bank is the place for you. We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team.

About Wealth and Retail Banking

Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) serves more than 11 million clients in many of the world’s fastest-growing markets. Our client continuum spans from Mass Retail to Affluent, including high-net worth clients served by our Private Bank. We leverage digital banking channels with a human touch to provide clients with differentiated products and services such as deposits, payments, financing, wealth management and personalised advice. We also support small business clients with their business banking needs.

About the Job

To become a strategic and managing client relations professional within our team, while utilizing your experience in building hips, across the region. Your focus will be on developing new relationships, to onboard new clients while maintaining and servicing a portfolio, through excellent communication, negotiation and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Creation of strategic plans for revenue generation and business development while driving the Digital Agenda.
• Generate new business to achieve defined targets in terms of the number of customers, volumes and revenue, including product mix, active/ passive ratio, liability targetsAbo, transactions.
• Induction of all (NTB) new customers brought in by the Branches & Direct Sales team.
• Creation of sales call plans to acquire large prospective customers through referrals.
• Update & maintain all Sales MIS (Calls, Prospects, Attritions, Business done, etc.)
• Effectively meeting customer expectations and handling/ reduction of customer complaints while providing professional customer service to achieve a high percentage of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations for your team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• To be able to detect any suspicious transactions, Money laundering, forgeries etc.
• Highest compliance with reference to Anti Bribery, Anti Money Laundering & Combating Financial Crime Risk procedures.
• Obtain Security & Commodity Authority (SCA) license and timely completion of Continuous Program Development (CPD) requirement post SCA licensing. This is a mandatory requirement for the role.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Experienced Sales and Relationship Manager with background in handling all Banking & Investment Products. Strong communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence outcomes.
• Networking ability to manage interdepartmental deliverables.
• Strong inter-personal skills and leadership ability, which encourages and promotes enthusiasm and team spirit.
• Good understanding of the business environment in UAE preferably with direct contacts with the local HNI community.
• Adapting to multi-cultural environment.
• In-depth knowledge of capital markets and financial planning
• SCA certified

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.