# Business Manager **Company**: Deutsche Bank **Location**: Geneva **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DBWebsite/job/Geneva-Place-des-Bergues-3/Business-Manager---Emerging-Markets---Middle-East--F-M-X-_R0455350-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_076dffb7-477 ## Description The Business Manager supports the Middle East leadership team by translating strategic priorities into disciplined execution. Responsibilities: **Management support and governance** - Act as a key point of contact for the Middle East Market and Sub-Regional Head on business management, strategic, financial, risk and operational topics. - Coordinate the regional management rhythm, including agendas, materials, decisions, action tracking and follow-up for management, strategy, market review and leadership forums. - Prepare concise, decision-oriented updates and presentations for senior management and relevant governance bodies. - Support the development, implementation and monitoring of market, location and client-segment strategies. - Maintain clear ownership, deadlines and escalation paths for key actions, dependencies and open decisions. **Business performance and financial management** - Monitor revenues, Net New Assets, Net New Loans, client acquisition, assets under management and other agreed key performance indicators against plan and forecast. - Partner with Finance and Performance Management to support accurate management information, revenue attribution, forecasting, variance analysis and performance commentary. - Produce data-driven insights on current performance, emerging trends, opportunities and execution gaps. - Support annual planning and target-setting, ensuring objectives are translated into measurable desk and team-level ambitions. - Coordinate targeted book reviews and commercial initiatives designed to strengthen client penetration, revenues and asset growth. **Sales management and client development** - Drive a consistent sales operating rhythm across the Middle East, including pipeline review, prospect management, client acquisition and funding progress. - Maintain transparent and decision-useful prospect and opportunity reporting, with clear next steps, owners and expected outcomes. - Coordinate follow-up on relevant client leads and referrals, including requests received through Deutsche Bank channels. - Promote disciplined use of client analytics and business intelligence to identify actionable opportunities. **Products and platform connectivity** - Connect Coverage teams with Investment Management and Products to support the delivery of relevant investment and product content. - Coordinate communication on product launches, subscription timelines, availability and client-facing materials. - Identify platform, product and training needs and facilitate resolution with the relevant product and infrastructure partners. - Support effective follow-through on commercial opportunities while ensuring alignment with applicable suitability, cross-border and control requirements. **Risk, controls and operational execution** - Embed risk and control considerations into business planning and execution, without assuming responsibilities owned by independent control functions. - Coordinate business input for audits, reviews, remediation activities and governance requests; track actions through to evidenced completion. - Identify operational issues, dependencies and blockers, and escalate material risks or delays to the appropriate owner or governance forum. - Support Market Purity governance and related coordination in line with applicable policies, controls and approvals. - Support the business travel approval process by coordinating requests with relevant stakeholders and helping ensure required approvals are in place before travel. - Partner with relevant functions on client lifecycle, onboarding, KYC, cross-border, conduct and other business-control priorities. - Support consistent implementation of policies, procedures and management decisions across the Middle East coverage organization. **Change and strategic initiatives** - Lead or coordinate cross-functional projects and business initiatives from definition through implementation and benefits tracking. - Develop clear project plans, governance, milestones, decision points, risk logs and status reporting. - Drive continuous improvement and simplification of business-management processes, reporting and controls. - Facilitate collaboration across onshore and offshore locations and ensure regional initiatives reflect local requirements and constraints. **Skills:** - Master's degree. - At least five years of experience in business management or a comparable function within the Wealth Management or Private Banking industry. - Strong understanding of Wealth Management or Private Banking; experience supporting Middle East markets is an advantage. - Highly organized, accurate and resilient, with the ability to prioritize competing demands and deliver under tight deadlines. - Demonstrated ability to deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority. - Strong analytical skills and the ability to convert financial, commercial and risk information into clear management insights. - Sound judgement, professional integrity and the ability to handle confidential information appropriately. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise materials for senior management. - Proactive, collaborative and improvement-oriented approach, with strong follow-through and attention to detail. - Fluent written and spoken English; French and/or Arabic would be an advantage. - Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs. **Well-being & Benefits** - Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health. - Physically thriving: We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. - Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and wellbeing. - Financially secure: We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future. ## Skills ### Required - Master's degree - 5+ years of experience in business management - Strong understanding of Wealth Management or Private Banking - Analytical skills - Communication skills - Project management ### Nice to have - French - Arabic - Experience supporting Middle East markets --- Source: [Apply at db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DBWebsite/job/Geneva-Place-des-Bergues-3/Business-Manager---Emerging-Markets---Middle-East--F-M-X-_R0455350-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)