Relationship Manager, Acquisition Specialist

Job ID: 37957

Location: Petaling Jaya, MY

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 2 Sept 2025

**Job Summary**

As a Standard Chartered Relationship Manager, Acquisition Specialist in SME Banking, you’ll be responsible for managing and developing relationships with mid-sized and emerging corporates to drive business growth and meet the bank's strategic objectives. You’ll provide exceptional customer service with the provision of financial solutions while managing operational risk and regulatory requirements.**Key Responsibilitie**
- To achieve agreed individual financial and non-financial targets by acquiring, growing, and retaining profitable Medium Enterprise customers within acceptable risk parameters.
- Contribute toward achieving the team’s overall target and delivering optimal portfolio return.
- Collaborate and build effective partnerships with other Relationship Managers, Credit Analysts, Team Managers, Segment Heads, colleagues in Client Due Diligence, and partners in Risk, Compliance, other support functions, and Product

**Skills and Experience**
- Relevant undergraduate degree, ideally with minimum of 3 years relevant experience in Banking or Financial Services industry.
- Ability to read and write in English.
- Good understanding of Companies Act and basic understanding of Cash Management and Trade Working Capital (optional).
- Able to work under broad direction but is a self-motivated individual who can demonstrate strong sense of initiative with the ability to work independently and as a team player; has technical responsibility and accountability for work performed and decisions taken.
- Possess effective interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, and collaboration skills.
- Results-oriented, target driven and able to work under stress.
- Establish sufficient experience in balancing between sales target and prioritising compliance and regulatory framework.
- This role requires extensive travelling.

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Account Management
- Addressing Customer Needs
- Anti-money Laundering Policies and Procedures
- Bank Account Features and Services
- Cash Management Services
- Small Business Banking

**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.- Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.- Together we:
- **Do the right thing** and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- **Never settle,** continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- **Are better together,** we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

**What we offer**

**In line with our Fair Pay Charter,** we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.- **Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,** with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- **Time-off** including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- **Flexible working** options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- **Proactive wellbeing support** through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- **A continuous learning culture** to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- **Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,** one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.