Vice President, Sustainability Solutions Group (ESG)

Business Development:

• Pitch and originate sustainable finance opportunities to corporate customers across India
• Ensure deal alignment with market leading industry practices, internal policies, thresholds
• Proactively collaborate with internal relationship managers, product teams, senior management including investee bank partners to advance SMBC’s position in the sustainable finance market
• Shape and advance the bank’s sustainable finance/ solution product offering together with adjacent product teams and in line with customer appetite
• Collaborate closely with relationship managers across geographies to develop targeted and customer-centric sustainability solutions
• Proactive in arranging client meetings, workshops, travel to pursue opportunitie

Strategic and Operational Management:

• Supervise the team’s data management, tracking and submission of the team’s commercial progress and regular management reporting
• Provide technical contribution to process improvements in the bank’s evolving ESG policies, risk management and disclosures
• Supervise the team’s data management, commercial progress and management reporting
• Collaborate smoothly with related departments globally and in 1st, 2nd, 3rd Line of Defense roles

Thought Leadership:

• Drive the marketing strategy for the team for strategic events and forums
• Represent SMBC through speaking at and participating in external marketing events
• Form partnerships with strategic industry players, represent the bank to contribute to industry sustainability workstreams in the region.
• Write publications, enable the team to contribute to publications on thematic sustainability and sustainable finance topics.