Head of Wb Financial Institutions Coverage Luxembourg

At ING, we believe in empowering our people to reach their full potential. Our inclusive culture ensures that everyone has the opportunity to grow, make an impact, and contribute to our mission of serving our customers and society.

**Head of Financial Institutions Luxembourg**:
**Financial Institutions Luxembourg**:
The team is responsible for the Luxembourg relationships of approximately 250 clients. A commercial plan has been executed since the team’s inception and we have the clear ambition to deliver further growth over the next several years - focusing on existing as well as new clients.

**Key responsibilities**:
As Head of FI Luxembourg, your responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Be Head of FI Luxembourg, with full responsibility for FI Luxembourg activities, and be a member of the WB Luxembourg management team.
- Drive, refine, and adapt ING’s FI strategy centered on sales excellence and execution. Show a proven ability to anticipate and stay ahead of competition and be ING’s FI market leader and spokesperson.
- Address the business challenges facing the bank's clients in Luxembourg. Demonstrate the ability to translate this knowledge into smart business decisions and a robust sales process that deepens client relationships and increases market share and wallet penetration. Strong analytical skills and intellectual curiosity and agility will be key to successfully shaping the issues and setting a course of action to deliver long-term solutions to clients and driving the growth, profitability, and success of the organization.
- Lead a team of 10 salespeople, product managers, and account managers, keeping commercialization as the priority, retaining talent, and developing future leaders.
- Develop and execute sales strategies to deliver best-in-class local and international Cash Management, Trade, and Depository Solutions (Custody) with a view to achieving/exceeding budget and supporting cross-selling and product development.
- Manage the sales pipeline process by providing effective sales management through strategy planning, identification of opportunities, process qualification, client engagement, building solutions and presentations to clients, negotiation, and closure of deals with an objective of maximizing revenue and profitability.
- Instil a strong commercial approach to the business, including managing some key client responsibilities.
- Generate impact, engender trust and loyalty in cross-functional initiatives as well as with subordinates and clients; demonstrate a confident, engaging, transparent interpersonal style complemented by strong conflict resolution and persuasion skills; an ability to effectively build commitment towards common goals in a distributed matrix organization.
- Design tailor-made solutions aligned to global products to widen local offerings to clients.
- Lead market research and intelligence gathering on the most recent macro and micro-economic conditions in Luxembourg, and track industry trends, analyzing them against current capabilities and offerings, to develop new products.
- Monitor and understand customer needs, market, and economic trends as well as business opportunities and threats - use that knowledge to define the strategy and competitive positioning for FI Luxembourg.
- Innovate and drive the business forward, capitalizing on new opportunities.
- Participate in external industry committees in understanding trends and defining industry requirements.
- Realize the full potential of the sales team with a particular focus on the development of market-leading competencies for global solution delivery.
- Contribute to strategic development, including early identification of capabilities required to maintain market leadership.
- Ensure full observance of, and adherence to, applicable compliance and other regulatory requirements and guidelines.
- Ensure that the business operates with an acceptable risk tolerance and adheres to regulatory parameters.
- Develop and coordinate knowledge sharing and foster a culture of collaboration, client focus, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Actively contribute to the development and implementation of the overall business and people strategy and ING business principles including ING's Orange Code.
- Ensure a culture of inclusiveness.

**Your profile and required qualifications**:

- Is an execution-focused leader with a strong market reputation and commercial drive based on a thorough understanding of the Luxembourg NBFI (financial sponsors, asset and fund managers, investment management firms, private equity firms), banks, and insurance companies.
- Has strong knowledge of corporate cash, trade, fund finance, depositary and custody business, and derivatives.
- Has experience working in an organization where sales are not only booked in-country but also throughout the network (ING has global products and functionality).
- Demonstrates excellent influencing, facilitation, and partnering