Director, Business Development

RBC; Montreal; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Montreal is seeking a seasoned professional for a sales role focused on Asset Servicing. This position requires excellent bilingual communication skills and a proven track record of client acquisition in the financial services sector. Responsibilities include identifying market opportunities, managing the sales process, and collaborating across the organization to drive revenue growth. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience and a strategic mindset towards innovation and client relationships.

Benefits

Excellent career development opportunities

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses

Supportive and dynamic team environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience within the financial services and/or asset servicing industry.
• Bilingualism required to serve clients across Canada.
• Sound technical knowledge of the Financial Services, Asset management and Asset services industry.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop new Asset Servicing sales opportunities.
• Manage sales processes from client identification to proposal submission.
• Travel to Canadian cities as required for client meetings.

Skills

Business development mindset

Engagement with C-level executives

Technical knowledge of financial services

Bilingualism (English and French)

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

In this role, you will be responsible for the identification, development, implementation of new Asset Servicing sales opportunities. You will participate in the definition of strategy to take RBC Investor Services (IS) products to market to drive new sales through client acquisition and revenue generation.

What will you do?

• Articulate a clear vision for sales growth across your defined territory that primarily focuses on the acquisition of new client names.
• Point of contact for strategic discussions with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and COOs looking to drive digital transformation, innovation journeys, and operational efficiency exercises. Be conversant and comfortable having strategic conversations on asset servicing capabilities, operational process improvements, managed services, outsourcing and modern technologies including Front – Mid and Back Office Fintechs, Cloud, APIs, AI, Web Technologies, Security, etc.
• Manage all aspects of the sales process from new client identification, engagement, strategy creation and ownership for each opportunity, create and attend prospect and client meetings, set direction and execute on the sales activities.
• Partner across all areas of RBC to bring OneRBC to the market. Build and execute on a pipeline of large revenue, high-impact enterprise deals using RBCIS platform capabilities.
• Identify opportunities in the market for expanding RBCIS footprint by enhancing the use of people, process, and technology to deliver new products and services to the market. This will include liaising and collaborating with product, technology and strategy owners at RBCIS to build and deliver new innovative product offerings and construct enterprise solutions.
• Ensure sales pipeline opportunities are well documented to create executive visibility into revenue targets and pipeline.
• Ultimate ownership and oversight of the delivery of RFI/RFP and proposal management processes for opportunity portfolio.
• Consultant engagement as required in support of complex long sales cycle deals.
• Travel outside of the office, typically to Canadian cities including overnight stays may be required.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 10+ years of relevant experience within the financial services and/or asset servicing industry
• Bilingualism (English and French) required, as you will regularly serve our clients and do business with RBC partners and/or employees across Canada with English and French speaking needs.
• Strong business development new client acquisition mindset
• Able to engage at “C” level across prospect organizations
• Sound technical knowledge of the Financial Services, Asset management and Asset services industry
• Extensive experience at translating product and technology vision and strategy into actionable programs and project capabilities
• Strategic, entrepreneurial mind‑set; innovative, creative and self-motivating

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Excellent exposure to communicate with various business partners and stakeholders in RBCIS and within other platforms as appropriate
• Working with an exciting, close-knit, supportive & dynamic group
• Opportunity to collaborate with other business segments within the bank
• Excellent career development and progression opportunities
• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
• Competitive compensation

Job Skills

Additional Job Details

Address: 1 PLACE VILLE MARIE:MONTRÉAL

City: Montréal

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-09-25

Application Deadline: 2025-12-25

Note

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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