Director, Market Product Specialist, Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS)

Standard Chartered; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in the City Of London is seeking a Director, Market Product Specialist. This role entails delivering tailored investment solutions across various asset classes, providing expertise to the front-line teams, and managing trade processes. Candidates should possess a deep understanding of global markets and relevant qualifications. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Continuous learning culture

Proactive wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in private or wealth banking, capital markets, or investment advisory.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tactical investment ideas based on macroeconomic and market analysis.
• Provide product expertise and market commentary to Relationship Managers (RMs) and Investment Advisors (IAs).
• Manage the full trade process—from pricing and approvals to execution.
• Collaborate with teams across London, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong to ensure best-in-class service.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

Skills

Deep understanding of global markets and capital markets products

Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and effectively

Collaborative mindset with strong relationship management skills

Customer-focused with a high standard of service delivery

Agile, action-oriented, and comfortable in fast-moving environments

Education

Relevant Level 4 RDR qualification

Industry certifications such as ACI Dealing or CISI

Job description

Are you passionate about global markets and investment products? We’re looking for a dynamic, market-savvy professional to join our Capital Markets Products & Solutions team as a Director, Market Product Specialist. In this key role, you’ll collaborate with front-line teams to deliver tailored investment solutions across asset classes—Structured Products, FX, Fixed Income, Equities, and Derivatives.

You’ll play a critical role in supporting bankers and advisors with product knowledge, market insights, and trade execution—helping clients meet their investment goals and driving growth for the bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver tactical investment ideas based on macroeconomic and market analysis.
• Provide product expertise and market commentary to Relationship Managers (RMs) and Investment Advisors (IAs).
• Manage the full trade process—from pricing and approvals to execution.
• Collaborate with teams across London, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong to ensure best-in-class service.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., FCA best execution).

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Deep understanding of global markets and capital markets products.
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and effectively.
• Collaborative mindset with strong relationship management skills.
• Customer-focused with a high standard of service delivery.
• Agile, action-oriented, and comfortable in fast-moving environments.

Qualifications

• Relevant Level 4 RDR qualification (required).
• Industry certifications such as ACI Dealing or CISI (preferred).
• Demonstrated experience in private or wealth banking, capital markets, or investment advisory.

What we offer

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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 thingand 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
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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