Global Trade Specialist: Mid-Corp- CPT at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To manage and lead the sales team to achieve growth in market share and profitability and provide input that supports the strategy and promote the Nedbank brand.

Why Join Our Team

• Join Nedbank as a Global Trade Specialist: Mid‑Corp (Cape Town) and play a key role in driving growth, market share, and client excellence within a leading financial services brand. You’ll lead a high‑performing sales team, influence strategic outcomes, and deliver world‑class, client‑centric global trade solutions in a dynamic and regulated environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a high performance sales culture by ensuring alignment of the sales strategy with team targets.
• Ensure effective risk management by monitoring compliance to policies and procedures and relevant regulatory frameworks and taking corrective action where necessary.
• Ensure optimisation of resources and work flow to increase productivity by ensuring effective resource and work allocation.
• Develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships by ensuring that Nedbank values are followed in sales and service delivery.
• Ensure distinctive customer experience through driving the team to achieve consistent service delivery.
• Ensure client satisfaction by monitoring and analysing client experience results through the various tools and measurements and take required action.
• Ensure synergy between team networks through consistent and constant communication of expectations.
• Drive and monitor the implementation of the sales strategy against objectives and outcomes by ensuring that all businesses within your area of influence are aligned to the sales strategy.
• Develop and manage the budget according to the strategic business requirements.
• Ensure active and successful growth of Nedbank market share across existing and new clients by driving the sales team targets.
• Ensure transformational target are met through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment; retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self; managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives.
• Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g.. Green Strategy).
• Ensure issues raised in the Barrett and NSS surveys are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created.
• Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions.
• Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes.
• Optimise efficiency and embed correct values by ensuring direct reports understand and support Nedbank's vision; values and strategy and are measured on delivery against these.
• Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports by implementing performance agreements; ensuring a clear vision; agreeing on goals and objectives; providing regular feedback on performance; recognising and rewarding achievement and take appropriate corrective action where required.
• Identify relevant development needs by assessing own performance and behaviour through formal and informal feedback.
• Drive to execute own and direct reports planned development by attending learning; seeking coaching or other industry or technical learning events and opportunities.
• Maintain a capable high performing team by identifying a talent pool through conducting career conversations and utilising the talent grid principles and developing talent retention programmes (e.g.. rotation).
• Build depth of skills and knowledge in the team of managers by sharing knowledge and insight with team members Suring mentoring; coaching and day to day activities.
• Ensure continuous improvement goals are achieved by creating an environment whereby self; managers and team are encouraged to challenge the status quo by initiating constructive debates about work practices and areas for improvement.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are a results‑driven sales leader with 5+ years’ experience in financial services, including proven people leadership and sales success.
• Client‑focused, commercially astute, and FAIS‑compliant (RE1), you thrive on developing talent, managing risk, and translating strategy into sustainable performance.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• A recognised professional qualification in Finance and/or Sales.
• Successfully completed FAIS Regulatory Examination 1.

Minimum Experience Level

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading teams within the financial services sector.
• At least 5 years’ proven sales experience in a related role.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Business administration and management
• Business terms and definitions
• Communication Strategies
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Nedbank policies and procedures
• Organisational behaviour theory
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
• Human Resource Policies And Practices

Behavioural Competencies

• Initiating Action
• Building the Sales Team
• Coaching the Sales Team
• High-Impact Communication
• Driving Successful Customer Engagements
• Aligning and Executing Sales Strategy

Closing Date: 01 April 2026