Senior Product Manager on Structured Finance (f/m/d)
HSBC · Paris
Being part of HSBC in France, you’ll help evolve and grow our business.
Are you passionate for International Trade? Do you have experience in Structured Trade Finance Solutions? Would you like being part of designing the future of our business? Do you enjoy cross collaboration and interactions with multiple people and profiles across the world?
If you answered yes to these questions, we want to hear from you!
What you will do:
Global Trade Solutions (GTS) comprises over 4,500 people across more than 50 countries, helping suppliers and buyers with their export and import finance needs. Trade is where HSBC began in 1865, when we financed commerce between Europe and Asia.
The key purpose of this role is to be responsible for the successful implementation of our GTS Product strategy in Europe. This includes Commercializing our Proposition, maintaining and enhancing existing products, implementing new solutions, deploying new IT platforms, integration with third party suppliers, coordinating delivery across HBCE and branches and ensuring the proper governance is in place.
In this role you will:
- Manage the creation, development and conduct governance of all GTS Product suite with particular emphasis on emerging Structured Finance solutions: Inventory Finance, Contract Monetisation, Portfolio RF, Asset Based Lending…
- Manage the marketing and communication Product agenda to provide creative means for improving client and staff awareness.
- Ensure that existing proprietary systems remain fit for purpose through a constant process of functional enhancement and targeted to appropriate segments to increase digital client engagement
- Manage the development and implementation of the product strategy across the region with particular focus on improving the client User Experience (UX)
- Drive and focus on increasing product profitability for HBCE GTRF inventory, ensuring effective use of Risk Weighted Assets
- Maintain Regional financial accountability for the economic profit derived from these products, controlled to ensure they satisfactorily contribute to overall customer profitability.
- Ensure product designs create competitive advantages and withstand competitive threats. Sponsor product development and regional processing initiatives in response to market changes and/or identified opportunities.
- Lead the ongoing developments of core Trade and Structured Finance legal documentation - both in the context of newly developed products and in client implementations.
- Oversee provision of product awareness training for sales, client managers, bankers, service and other personnel.
- Work closely with Group entities in other regions to ensure adoption of best practices and reflect the global nature of the GTS business
You should apply if you have:
- Deep knowledge of Trade Finance Solutions, special focus on Structured Trade Finance
- Experience in Product related roles or having collaborated in Trade Product initiatives.
- Curious mindset with a clear focus on overcoming inefficiencies, managing risks and replicating successful solutions.
- Clear ability to manage stakeholders across frontline coverage, risk management, governance through the global product design and implementation, ensuring we are clearly aligned on commerciality of our product offering and client delivery channels whilst keeping risk within our appetite.
- A strong interest in digital and game-changing (or emerging) technologies (Blockchain, AI..)
- Awareness of the principal Trade Finance market Trends in Europe
- Project management experience
- Proactive attitude, keen to learn and flexibility to adapt for business requirements
- Being able to work independently and under pressure whilst using strong judgmental skills to identify and resolve complex problems, manage ambiguity, and adhere to timelines, ensuring high quality output. Ability to filter and prioritise multiple demands, resolve conflicts, and develop consensus
- Excellent written and oral communication; ability to articulate and detail, if necessary, issues to all levels
- Team player
- Proficient in MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word and MS Power Point
Even if you feel you do not meet 100% of our qualifications, we encourage you to apply, if you believe this role is right for you.
What you’ll get in return:
HSBC operates multiple variable pay plans, to reflect the diverse nature of the businesses, roles and markets in which we operate. Variable pay is designed to reward colleagues for their individual performance and contribution, as well as the performance of their relevant Business / Infrastructure, and the overall Group.
We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering usually covering healthcare, life assurance, pension, and family friendly leaves, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.
- We’ll help you progress your career, including access to development programmes, through HSBC University and our Degreed platform
- You can work your way and will have a say in when, where and how you and your team flexibly work together
- Our benefits will give you financial security, and can include company savings plan (PEE), savings plan for collective retirement, mutual insurance for you and your family, loyalty bonus, a Time Savings Account to monetize untaken off days (CET)…
- A Work Council which offers ticketing, travel, sports, legal aid, Christmas vouchers, Summer break vouchers…
- Our family-focused benefits can help you to support your loved ones and include family events days off (wedding, civil union…), additional maternity or breastfeeding leave, birth bonus, partial reimbursement of childcare costs, assistance to employees taking care of a relative with disability…
- We’ll give you a huge range of resources that support your well-being (yoga, sophrology, Mindfulness app)
- You’ll have international opportunities - this can be your place to start and branch out to anywhere we have offices
- A work environment that promotes Diversity & Inclusion, where you’ll be able to join our different Employee Resource Groups
- These benefits are on top of local usual benefits in France (refund of transport fees at 50%, 5 weeks of paid vacation & RTT, meal voucher card or corporate restaurant depending on location)
HSBC has been certified “Top Employer 2026” in Europe. This recognition from the Top Employers Institute rewards our HR practices and recognises HSBC as an HR Leader in several countries in Continental Europe. Not only is HSBC a great place to work, but we also offer the following unique and exciting benefits & opportunities!
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