
Emirates NBD
Sales Manager ā Liabilities & Accounts (Retail Bank)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 18/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
04/12/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
18/01/2026
Job description
The role focuses on leading the Liabilities & Accounts sales function within the Retail Bank to develop market share for all Retail Liability products, drive business volume, penetration and cross-sell targets, and ensure delivery of fixed deposit, CASA balances, and payroll account objectives for the affluent, cross-selling, and business development teams. The unit is accountable for developing and growing liabilities, payroll business, deposits, and CASA base, acquiring new-to-bank customers, and creating a multiproduct sales culture. The role supports building a strong customer base for upselling retail products including loans, overdraft, credit cards and bancassurance. Responsibilities include delivering the annual financial budget aligned with the approved business plan, managing recruitment, retention and training of the sales team, maintaining consistency in business acquisition and approval rates, and creating medium-term sales plans with actionable strategies. The position requires coordination with internal departments to ensure seamless customer service, setting and monitoring individual targets, ensuring marketing initiatives and incentive campaigns are executed, and holding regular review meetings to assess performance against plans. Additional responsibilities include developing area-wise acquisition plans, segmenting business sourcing efforts, focusing on free zones, LLC companies, and large corporate payroll opportunities, overseeing daily team activities through a sales management system, implementing innovative sales promotions and motivational programs, and providing staff training on bank policies and procedures including Sanctions, AML and CTF. The role includes responding to regulatory requests, conducting periodic risk-based compliance monitoring, reviewing high-risk accounts and account opening applications for AML, compliance, high-risk and PEP concerns in line with UAE Central Bank guidelines, providing compliance-related feedback to internal teams and correspondent banks, and working with staff and customers to obtain required documents for compliance queries.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Develop the market share of all Retail Liability products and achieve business volume, penetration, and cross-sell targets across the team
- Deliver the annual financial budget in line with the approved business plan
- Manage recruitment, retention and training of team members to ensure strong sales capability and performance
- Maintain consistency in business acquisition and approval rates from acquired business sources
- Create and implement medium-term sales plans and strategies to achieve budgeted targets
- Coordinate with internal departments to deliver high-quality customer service
- Set individual sales targets and monitor performance regularly
- Ensure effective execution of marketing initiatives and incentive campaigns
- Hold regular review meetings to assess achievements versus plan and define corrective actions
- Comply with approved policies, procedures and norms to protect organizational and customer interests
- Develop area-wise acquisition plans and execute a scan-the-area approach
- Develop adaptive sales strategies jointly with branches based on location
- Focus on acquiring business from free zones and LLC companies through segmented sourcing strategies
- Monitor daily team activities through a sales management system and manage consequence management on sales
- Develop and implement innovative sales promotions and motivational programs for staff
- Provide staff training on bank policies including Sanctions, AML and CTF
- Respond to regulatory requests by providing required customer, transaction, policy, procedural or training information
- Conduct periodic risk-based compliance monitoring to ensure adherence to bank policies and procedures
- Review high-risk accounts for money-laundering concerns and provide feedback or approval within agreed TAT
- Review new account opening applications for AML, compliance, high-risk and PEP checks in line with Group PEP Policy and UAE Central Bank Guidelines
- Provide compliance-related feedback to internal teams, correspondent banks, central bank and regulators
- Work with staff and customers to obtain required documentation to resolve AML and compliance queries
Experience & skills
- Hold a Graduate or Postgraduate degree
- Demonstrate high level of computer knowledge and skills
- Possess more than 10 years of diversified management experience in sales and marketing, business development, training, product and client relationship management
- Show strong analytical, communication and leadership abilities to manage and motivate large teams
- Demonstrate high achievement orientation and ability to work with short time schedules
- Exhibit strong planning and organizational capabilities
- Possess strong knowledge of credit policy, banking operations and product programs
- Show strong experience in sales management, people management, business development and productivity management
- Demonstrate exceptional skills in shaping and building business relationships
- Exhibit outstanding leadership competencies and management qualities
- Be proactive, positive, aggressive, service-oriented and customer-focused
- Demonstrate strong team orientation and ability to inspire and manage people