Join us as a Director in Large Corporate Coverage, Consumer Industries

• We’ll look to you to originate and grow high-value relationships with some of the UK’s leading Consumer Industries businesses, acting as a trusted strategic partner to senior client stakeholders and bringing together the full breadth of the bank to support their ambitions.
• You’ll build and maintain a strong network of internal and external relationships, to help deliver the full breadth of the bank’s capabilities to our chosen clients.
• This is an exciting time to join a high-profile sector, with the opportunity to support leading businesses as they implement their strategies and navigate an evolving global macroeconomic environment.
• This is a senior origination role, and you’ll bring significant experience of covering large corporate clients in a coverage, advisory, or adjacent product role.

What you'll do

• You’ll play a key role in shaping and implementing our sector strategy, managing successful and profitable relationships across a portfolio of customers spanning the consumer products, retail, and leisure sub-sectors.
• You’ll position the bank as a leading strategic partner to our clients, combining strong knowledge of corporate financing with commercial insight and trusted senior relationships.

You also will:

• Lead origination across the full suite of financing, risk management and transaction banking products, leveraging the bank’s broader platform and collaborating effectively across product and coverage teams

• Deliver high-quality transactions through best-in-class structuring and execution
• Lead commercial thinking with chosen clients, positioning the bank as a first port of call and driving growth, market coverage and our external profile
• Contribute to the team’s commercial strategy and lead effective internal stakeholder management
• Shape and produce sector-led content and thought leadership to support high-quality client conversations

The skills you'll need

• We’re looking for a finance professional with significant experience in banking, advisory, or an adjacent product discipline. You’ll have a deep understanding of corporate banking, ideally within Consumer Industries, together with strong corporate finance and credit skills.
• You’ll demonstrate a strong understanding of the market dynamics, opportunities and challenges facing Consumer Industries, alongside knowledge of our core product set, including lending, debt capital markets, event financing, rates, FX, cash management and trade finance.

You will also have:

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to develop strong senior stakeholder networks internally and externally
• A proven track record of collaborating effectively to deliver commercial outcomes
• Strong time management, project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities
• A proven ability to analyse and solve complex problems
• A track record of contributing to stretching financial targets, combined with strong strategic thinking and external market engagement

Hours

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