Citi Commercial Bank Sustainability, SVP

Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. The core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments, and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. With 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. Citi is the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities.

We view integrating and managing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as an essential component of our strategy to help increase innovation, business resiliency, risk mitigation and value generation, and as a pillar of our long-term business success. The same is true for our clients and communities, and we work to support both in achieving their goals. These issues create opportunities for our business and are also incorporated into our environmental and social risk management processes.

Citi has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Since announcing our net zero commitment in 2021, we have outlined a Net Zero Plan and established a number of interim 2030 targets for select sectors of our portfolio. To achieve our net zero commitment, we will need to engage with new and existing clients at varying stages of transformation in their strategies and goals, as they navigate the transition to a low-carbon economy creating opportunities to support their journey.

About the Role

Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) is a global line of business at Citigroup that provides commercial banking services to mid-sized companies. CCB aspires to be the global bank of choice for trade-oriented companies, with revenues between $10 million and $3 billion. CCB wants our clients to see us as trusted thought partners who bring simplicity in an increasingly complex world, provide client-centric solutions for their long-term growth and pave the way for them to reach across borders and achieve their global vision.

CCB’s Sustainability team supports the implementation of this strategy helping clients transition to more sustainable business models and supporting sustainability focused disruptors to grow and scale their impact. As a core member of the Sustainability team, you will be responsible for supporting the Global Head of Sustainability, Citi Commercial Bank, in the implementation and execution of CCB’s Sustainability strategy, focusing on the origination and execution of Sustainability solutions that meet CCB client needs, and advancing CCB’s sustainability objectives and market positioning.

Key Responsibilities 

Driving Sustainability-focused Client Engagement, Origination and Execution

• Client Advisory: Provide advice to a wide range of CCB clients at different stages of their sustainability journey, ranging from “disruptors” with innovative business models to more traditional corporates that need to reposition their business models to be future proofed.
• Sustainable Finance Origination & Execution: Originate and support the execution across Citi’s sustainability focused product suite with focus on Sustainability-linked and Sustainable Use of Proceeds Financing by advising clients on relevant considerations for their industries.
• Sustainability Disruptor Prospecting and Origination: Lead the identification and prioritization of sustainability disruptor prospects with industry coverage teams. Support the engagement with sustainability disruptor prospects and clients to build relationship and demonstrate Citi’s sustainability value proposition.
• Content and Insights Delivery: Create, tailor and curate sustainability focused content targeted for mid-sized clients supporting clients to stay fully up to date with sustainability developments in a rapidly changing environment. Help develop solution packages and thought leadership together with product and industry partners in this evolving space.

Embedding Sustainability Mindset with in CCB

• Create internal awareness and momentum and help embed sustainability knowledge into the wider CCB organization by actively collaborating with internal focus groups and industry teams.
• Support capacity-building by delivering structured training modules to CCB bankers on relevant sustainability themes, content and products.
• Work closely with the CCB Sales Enablement, Strategy & Marketing teams to create effective go-to-market and communications strategies increasing awareness and visibility on CCB’s sustainability efforts and solutions.
• Support the ideation and delivery of sustainability focused events and conferences.