Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
This role will sit in the COO – APAC team which is responsible for establishing the overall strategic direction of the region. The office will liaise with all relevant stakeholders to create, implement, and roll out plans for operational processes, internal infrastructures, reporting systems and company policies all designed to foster growth, profitably and efficiencies within the region. It will design and implement management information to provide accurate and timely reports outlining the operational condition of the region and create effective measurement tools to gauge the efficiency and effectiveness of internal and external processes.
Role Summary
The Business Manager, APAC is a leadership role responsible for driving growth, enabling strategic change, and strengthening execution across the APAC region.
The role acts as a trusted partner to the COO – APAC, translating strategy into action by shaping priorities, leading complex change initiatives, and embedding scalable operating models that support sustainable growth.
This position combines strategic planning, business management, and transformation delivery, with a strong focus on improving how the region operates as it grows.
Importantly this role requires versatility covering complicated matters at depth whilst ensuring to step back and take a strategic high level view. Ability to influence and delegate to other functions is a must.
All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.
Overall Responsibilities
Strategic Growth & Business Enablement
- Partner with the COO – APAC to define, prioritize, and execute strategic initiatives that support revenue growth, new business activity, and regional expansion
- Act as a central point of coordination across front office, operations, finance, risk, legal, and technology to remove barriers to growth
- Support evaluation and execution of new business initiatives, partnerships, and market entry opportunities
Business Management & Execution
- Translate strategic priorities into clear plans, milestones, and outcomes, ensuring disciplined execution
- Establish and maintain robust management information and performance dashboards to track progress and impact
- Identify execution risks early and work proactively with stakeholders to resolve them
Culture & Ways of Working
- Promote a high performance, collaborative culture across functions
- Encourage continuous improvement, intellectual curiosity, and pragmatic problem solving
- Act as a role model for Marex values and conduct standards
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships across APAC and with global teams
- Support regulatory, legal entity, and control initiatives, including legal entity rationalization and clearing memberships, where relevant
Standard Responsibilities:
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA, NFA, AMF, AFM, MAS
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct.
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
- To escalate risk events immediately.
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
- The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time
Competencies, Skills and Experience
Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Skills and Experience
- Significant experience in Business Management, COO, Strategy, or Transformation roles within Financial Services
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross functional change initiatives in a regulated environment
- Strong understanding of how growth, controls, and operational scalability intersect
- Experience working with senior executives and influencing without direct authority
- Highly commercial, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands on execution
- Strong program and change management capability
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast paced, evolving environment
- University degree required
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Conduct Rules
You must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due skill, care and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators (where applicable)
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standard of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for customers