Manager - Business & Corporate Banking (SME Business Development & Strategy Partnership)

Job Responsibilities

Business Strategy Development

• Partner closely with key stakeholders and product teams to shape and execute strategic business growth initiatives.
• Drive the overall business management agenda, maintaining high execution discipline to deliver key strategic priorities.
• Accelerate branch network growth by optimizing profitability, expanding wallet share, driving cross-sell opportunities, and deepening client relationships.
• Foster seamless cross-functional collaboration between coverage and product units to deliver integrated, client-focused solutions.
• Deliver actionable strategic insights and constructive challenge to elevate business performance and optimize resource allocation.
• Formulate and manage the end-to-end proposition lifecycle for SME customers, including product and service development, pricing strategies, go-to-market plans, and performance monitoring.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Banking/Accounting or any related field.
• Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in industry and/or consulting with proven track record in Business Finance & Business Strategy.
• Working knowledge and understanding of business banking (ie. non-retail) products, processes and customer journeys.
• Strategic and organizational agility
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, able to effectively convey complex information at all levels
• Influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to constructively challenge in order to attain productive outcomes
• Strong banking skills and awareness of financial intricacies Detailed with numbers, reporting and analysis

About Hong Leong Bank

We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.

We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.

Realise your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.