Director/Senior Director, Corporates

FitchGroup; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fitch Ratings in Frankfurt is seeking a Director/Senior Director to lead origination efforts across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You will build relationships with banks, intermediaries and corporate issuers, and generate new rating mandates through active engagement and targeted outreach.

This role requires strategic thinking to position Fitch in the non-financial corporate market, and to map regional coverage while coordinating with London-based teams.

Qualifications

• Build and maintain a network of intermediaries across investment grade and high yield / leveraged finance who bring Fitch into pitch processes.
• Pitch directly to corporate issuer targets, both rated and unrated, across DACH.
• Contribute to mapping Fitch's EMEA intermediary coverage, coordinating closely with London-based peers.
• This is a business origination role within Fitch Ratings’ Business & Relationship Management group, covering corporate issuers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Responsibilities

• Originate new business by engaging banks, intermediaries and corporate issuers in the DACH region.
• Develop and execute the regional strategy for the Germany, Austria, Switzerland market.
• Support wider EMEA initiatives as needed.

Job description

Job Description

As one of the world's top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Explore a career at Fitch Ratings and you'll join a collaborative network of curious minds. Here, our differences are our strengths - in life as well as our work. Together we work with integrity and objectivity to provide clarity to the world's financial markets. We pride ourselves on our ability to harness the ideas, expertise, and professionalism of our global workforce, which is integral to our continued success. The accessibility and depth of experience of our industry leading analysts, combined with our broad sector credentials, allow us to help market participants make important credit decisions with confidence.

Fitch Ratings is currently seeking a Director/Senior Director based out of our Frankfurt office.

About the Team

The DACH corporate funding landscape is changing faster than at any point in the past decade. German, Austrian and Swiss corporates are broadening their funding mix beyond relationship bank debt and Schuldschein into public bond markets. Sponsor-led financing and private credit continue to expand across the Mittelstand and large-cap segments. Spin-offs, carve-outs and take-privates are creating new entities with new rating needs and new financing structures that require a credible, independent credit opinion.

Fitch has a clear growth ambition in this market. For the right candidate, this is an great opportunity to join a motivated team, shape its commercial strategy, and build a franchise rather than inherit one.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

This is a business origination role within Fitch Ratings’ Business & Relationship Management group, covering corporate issuers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

You will generate new rating mandates through two channels: building and deepening relationships with banks and intermediaries (DCM, Syndicate, Origination and Leveraged Finance), and marketing directly to corporate issuers, both rated and unrated. You will also help raise the profile of the Fitch brand through direct engagement, third-party conferences and targeted hosted events.

The role may additionally involve supporting selected business initiatives in the wider EMEA region.

Originate new business

• Build and maintain a network of intermediaries across investment grade and high yield / leveraged finance who bring Fitch into pitch processes
• Pitch directly to corporate issuer targets, both rated and unrated, across DACH
• Contribute to mapping Fitch's EMEA intermediary coverage, coordinating closely with London-based peers

Set and execute the regional strategy

• Understand Fitch's competitive positioning in the non-financial corporates market and translate it into a priorit