# Trading Development Team Leader

**Company**: HKEX
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Trading Development team at HKEX is seeking a seasoned leader to spearhead initiatives in advancing market infrastructure, systems, and policies.

**Job Duties:**

- Strategic Leadership & Market Design: Lead strategic initiatives to expand and optimize market structure design across core asset classes and trading channels. Uphold market integrity in alignment with HKEX’s revenue goals and regulatory mandates.

- Project Execution Oversight: Assume end-to-end ownership of project planning, ensure quality execution, and operational readiness.

- Market Analysis: Anticipate shifts in global and Mainland China regulatory landscapes. Assess the evolving market environment across Hong Kong, competing exchanges to craft robust strategies.

- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate and nurture high-level relationships with diverse stakeholders, including IT teams, regulators, and industry bodies.

- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of professionals, fostering a high-performance culture.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Social Science, Journalism or a related field. Advanced degree or relevant professional qualifications highly regarded.

- Minimum 15 years of progressive professional experience in capital markets, with direct experience in project execution management and/or operations.

- Demonstrated expertise in market structure design, supported by comprehensive product knowledge of Hong Kong and broader Asian/international exchanges.

- Proven track record working within multinational financial institutions. In-depth knowledge of Hong Kong capital markets is a distinct plus.

- Minimum 10 years of proven people management and team leadership experience in a complex, matrixed organization.

**Skills:**

- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.

- High-level presentation and lobbying skills.

- Fluency in Mandarin with excellent command of spoken and written English. Conversational Cantonese would be a distinct plus.

- Proactive, meticulous, highly adaptable, and adept at building effective strategic relationships.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic leadership
- market design
- project execution
- market analysis
- stakeholder engagement
- team leadership
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- strategic thinking
- presentation skills
- lobbying skills
- Mandarin
- English

### Nice to have
- Cantonese

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