Director, Client Executive

-Job description

**Some careers have more impact than others.**

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Securities Services provides robust and reliable solutions that enhance performance and mitigate risk, today and in the future. Working with institutional investors, banks, insurance companies, governments and multinational corporations, Securities Services offers a range of fund administration, global custody, sub-custody and clearing, and corporate trust and loan agency services.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a **Director, SSv Client Executive.**

Directors, SSv Client Executive are the owners of the end-to-end SSv client experience for their assigned client(s) globally. SSv Client Executive Directors are typically assigned the most complex portfolios in terms of either complexity of client needs (product mix, geographic footprint, revenue size) and/or number of clients.

With an in-depth understanding of their client’s current needs and strategic outlook, this role acts as a single, global client advocate within SSv. The role holder supports the client to navigate the firm and manages the virtual client team with both a commercial and service lens. This aims to achieve:

- Long-term commercial value for clients by leveraging our technology, scale, and geographic footprint to optimise service and platform solutions.
- Consistent delivery of service excellence through seamless ways of working across products, regions, and functions.

The role is a critical contributor to SSVs strategic ambitions, ensuring we create and maintain a platform for growth from which we can deliver:

- An industry-recognised, best in class client experience
- Improved Wallet Share
- A fully reference-able client base with limited/zero attrition

**Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders**
- Accountable for the overall client experience, retention, and satisfaction for assigned client base.
- Engages with assigned client base at C-suite and board level on needs and capabilities specific to client strategy, new regulation, product development and other solutions to establish an early adopter advantage.
- Accountable for creation and execution of the strategic level client plan in consultation with Platform Solutions.
- Forges deep relationships with key internal stakeholders, within SSv (Account Management, Client Service, Product etc.) and beyond (Platform Solutions and Global Banking Relationship Managers)
- Forecasts client revenues in partnership with Platform Solutions (incorporating projected organic and non-organic/competitive growth) to inform country-level targets, ensuring that all account plans are aligned with the Global Banking and Markets (GB&M) group plans. Accountable for generation of organic client revenue against target.
- Seeks out strategic revenue opportunities (including cross selling), partnering with MSS Platform Solutions where these are competitive and/or complex. Understands cost to service, measures losses, reviews key commercial metrics (e.g., operating leverage), and finds opportunities for improvement. Manages and prioritizes opportunity pipeline in consultation with Platform Solutions.
- Sponsors incremental new business approval submissions for any organic growth within the assigned client base and is accountable for that deal management and associated business approval processes and procedures.
- Negotiates legal wording as applicable for additional services.
- Ensures adherence to the SSv client governance and oversight model for assigned client base, including client due diligence, service reviews etc.
- Effectively manages staff on virtual client teams, advancing collective knowledge and effectiveness, and ensuring sustainable best practice is followed. (Direct line management may also be required.)
- Oversees execution of all supporting plans for assigned client base (including change management, product delivery, service improvement / remediation plans) and client collateral (e.g., client profiles for strategic client executives)
- Works proactively with product teams, providing a client perspective towards new product development to ensure we deliver on our value proposition and unlock higher margin opportunities. Communicates and manages product updates and changes with clients.
- Accountable for roll-out and integration of new client facing technology (delivered by the Product and Digital Data enablement teams). Promotes client adoption of existing technology as required.
- Senior point of contact for resolution of issues (operational, non-operational, BCP etc.)
- Maintains and enhances the reputation of HSBC in the marketplace through external relationships and thou