KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Drive and coordinate the strategic positioning of State Street in the region.Ensure the regulatory compliance with all respective regulators in the region and drive the management of relationships with key regulators.Represent the region as a board member in SSIH.Manage all country heads in the region and oversee all functions and businesses in the region.Work with the CCO in developing the regional revenue growth strategy and execute this with the country heads and the regional COO teams.Create a sense of urgency, focusing intensely on clients and prospects. Lead and develop Sales, Relationship Management and Client Service teams ensuring a coordinated and collaborative approach to client management and revenue generation.Ensure strategic alignment between sales effort and long-term business goals.Build and maintain deep strategic relationships with clients and targets.
Pro-actively lead significant deals. Identify prospects and implement sales strategies to meet aggressive net revenue growth targets.Cooperate with the Product Organization in developing value propositions that combine the best product capabilities and thought leadership State Street has to offer.Drive a solution's driven, client centric culture.Raise market profile and improve State Street's brand.Utilize industry network to penetrate market and bring on new customers across the full spectrum of investment servicing products.
DESIRED OUTCOMES
Achieve net growth in revenues and client wallet share relative to industry peers.Improve profitability.A driven senior executive with proven track record in growing businesses in the financial services industry in APAC. Developing sales, relationship management and client service strategies and driving to execution with proven results.Builds and maintains deep 'partner based' relationships with C-Suite at clients and prospects.In-depth financial services institutional market knowledge.Understands the importance of pro-active, transparent and constructive regulatory relationships. Ensures sound risk, conduct and controls to support sustainable performanceFuels innovation, proven agility, able to course-correct in response to changing marketsSeasoned communicator with executive presence, able to prepare and present State Street's unique value proposition to clients and prospects with impact.Inspirational leader of people who builds and leverages diverse talent that consistently deliver against targets.Analyzes risks and benefits of different courses of action - ensure that solutions fall within State Street's risk appetite.Builds trust and collaborates with key internal stakeholders.Demonstrated ability to provide fresh insights, is resilient, a change leader. A strong negotiator and influences courageously.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
MBA or advanced degree preferred.Minimum of 20 years of experience in strategic selling to and servicing institutionsProven track record and experience in driving and closing strategic, large-scale sales opportunities. Strong commercial mindset and ability to break down barriers to achieve financial goalsAbility to influence and work collaboratively with colleagues to drive business goalsExcellent communication skills and ability to work as one State StreetStrong knowledge and network of key contacts in the industryDeep understanding of complex investment servicing solutionsProven track record to successfully operate in different cultural and regional environments.Ability to operate effectively across all markets globally, with an understanding and appreciation for local nuances