This is a Singapore-based, hybrid Business Development Director seat with a global investor services and fund administration firm with a long-established presence across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The APAC business is a meaningful engine for the wider group - the platform sells the full shelf: fund administration, corporate services, fiduciary, depositary, and regulatory solutions across PE, hedge, real assets, and credit strategies.
The seat reports directly into the Regional Chief Commercial Officer for APAC. You land into an established sales function with delivery and servicing teams already in place across Singapore and Hong Kong, and a mandate to drive new logo growth in the Singapore market and across the wider region.
The RoleThis is a hunter mandate. Day one looks like territory mapping, prospect lists, and getting the calendar full of business partner meetings - not waiting for marketing leads.
You will:
The seat is sized for someone who has carried a number, not someone who has supported a process. If you are most proud of the pipeline you have personally built and the new logos you have personally landed, this seat is built around that profile.
What Makes You a FitYou have probably spent 8 or more years in client facing business development inside a fund administrator, asset servicer, or directly adjacent financial services platform - the kind of seat where a quarterly pipeline review is a real conversation, not a slide.
You have carried a quota, won new logos, and can talk through your last few wins with deal size, timeframe, and how the deal actually came together. You sell across PE, hedge, and closed/open ended fund managers - and you are equally comfortable on a discovery call with a CFO at a mid market PE shop and on a panel of stakeholders at a multi strategy hedge fund.
You bring an active, warm APAC network - not "I know the market", but specific names you would call in week one. You have owned an RFP end to end, not just supported the bid team, and you can describe how you sequence Operations, Tax, and Legal inputs to hit a deadline.
You are Singapore based (or able to land into a Singapore hybrid seat immediately), hold a relevant bachelor's degree, and you understand the APAC regulatory landscape - MAS at a minimum, with SFC, ASIC, and Cayman/BVI structuring in your peripheral vision.
The strongest fits will also bring some combination of: