Institutional Sales Lead

IMC Trading; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking an Institutional Sales Lead in Hong Kong to shape our direct counterparty ecosystem and optimize external liquidity flow. You will partner with traders to influence execution outcomes, liquidity access, and trading performance across high‑level markets.

As a senior member, you will drive key initiatives, evolve DCP capabilities, and mentor colleagues across trading and technology. This role blends trading, quantitative research, and low‑latency tech in a fast‑paced

Qualifications

• 10+ years in institutional sales with existing equity derivatives relationships in APAC.
• Deep understanding of market structure and execution mechanics.
• Proven track record in owning counterparty relationships and influencing trading performance.
• Experience in options, ETF and Chinese mainland markets preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage relationships with IMC’s direct counterparties and clearers.
• Onboard and manage relationships with new direct counterparties.
• Act as a senior escalation point for trading, operational, and commercial issues.
• Oversee off-screen trading flows from direct counterparties—from request to pricing and crossing.
• Analyze counterparty behavior, pricing quality, hit ratios, and response times.
• Develop understanding of market microstructure and its impact on trading performance.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance speed, reliability, and fill quality.
• Lead initiatives to improve scalability, automation, and data integrity across DCP workflows.
• Reduce manual touchpoints by partnering with technology on system enhancements.
• Ensure accurate and timely trade capture, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Drive best practices across trading support and counterparty engagement.
• Leverage data to identify inefficiencies, anomalies, and improvement opportunities.
• Build and maintain reporting on counterparty activity, performance, and KPIs.
• Use Python, SQL, and Excel to analyze and enhance trading workflows.

Skills

Institutional sales

Relationship ownership

Market structure

Python

SQL

Trading systems

Analytical skills

Options experience

ETF experience

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

As a Institutional Sales Lead at IMC, you will play a key role in shaping our direct counterparty ecosystem, helping define how IMC sources, interacts with, and optimizes external off screen liquidity flow.

This role goes beyond traditional counterparty management. You'll partner closely with traders, with direct influence on execution outcomes, liquidity access, and trading performance. Operating at the intersection of trading, quantitative research, and low-latency technology, you'll help ensure our counterparty interactions are fast, scalable, and commercially optimized.

As a senior member of the team, you'll drive key initiatives, contribute to the evolution of our DCP capabilities, and share your expertise with colleagues across trading and technology.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Counterparty Ownership & Strategy
  • Own and manage relationships with IMC’s existing direct counterparties and clearers.
  • Onboard, build and manage relationships with new direct counterparties.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for trading, operational, and commercial issues
• Execution & Trading Workflow Optimization
  • Oversee off-screen trading flows from direct counterparties from request phase, to pricing and crossing the trade.
  • Analyze counterparty behavior, pricing quality, hit ratios, and response times to inform routing and strategy decisions
  • Develop a deep understanding of market microstructure and how counterparty interaction impacts trading performance
  • Identify and implement improvements that enhance speed, reliability, and fill quality
• Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
  • Lead initiatives to improve scalability, automation, and data integrity across DCP workflows
  • Reduce manual touchpoints by partnering with technology on system enhancements
  • Ensure accurate and timely trade capture, reconciliation, and issue resolution
  • Drive best practices across trading support and counterparty engagement
• Data & Insights
  • Leverage data to identify inefficiencies, anomalies, and improvement opportunities
  • Build and maintain reporting on counterparty activity, performance, and operational KPIs
  • Use tools such as Python, SQL, and Excel to analyze and enhance trading workflows

Your Skills And Experience

• 10+ years of experience in institutional sales environment with pre-existing relationships in equity derivatives, priced or non-priced delta one markets in APAC.
• Deep understanding of market structure, execution mechanics, and counterparty interaction in derivatives or equities markets
• Proven track record of owning counterparty relationships and influencing trading performance
• Experience in options, ETF and Chinese mainland markets is preferred.
• Strong technical fluency, with experience working alongside engineering teams on trading systems and infrastructure
• Advanced analytical skills, with proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar tools

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.