Commercial Product Manager II, Transaction Services - Trade Distribution (TD)

The Commercial Product Manager is co-responsible for managing and optimizing ING’s Trade portfolio through active asset acquisition and distribution strategies, including sell downs, credit risk insurance, and participations. The role is exploratory and entrepreneurial—actively shaping and expanding its scope in alignment with ING’s Trade strategy. This includes promoting capital velocity initiatives, optimizing portfolio returns and revenues and contributing to cross-functional innovation and strategic growth. The position also involves maintaining strong relationships with clients, financial institutions, and investors to support portfolio performance and identify opportunities for syndication and expansion. In parallel, the role ensures operational excellence in daily execution and supports the development of scalable, automated processes in close collaboration with internal teams.

Responsibilities include:

-       Actively manage Wholesale Banking Trade assets to optimize returns through sell

downs, credit risk insurance, participations, and other capital velocity strategies

-       Maintain and deepen relationships with clients, financial institutions, and investors to

support portfolio performance and identify syndication and expansion opportunities

-       Serve as the primary contact for investor clients, ensuring smooth communication and resolution of operational issues.

-       Coordinate daily execution activities including forecasting, limit management, KYC, FATCA, and other related tasks.

-       Oversee the technical and operational setup for existing programs, with a focus on scalable and automated processes.

-       Collaborate closely with ING Hubs Operations and the Trade Sales Centre of Expertise and Trade Sales Account Management teams to ensure seamless execution and robust risk management.

-       Act as a key liaison for Trade-related capital velocity initiatives, engaging with internal stakeholders such as Loan Distribution Group, Sector Coverage, Credit Risk, Legal, TS Sales, TSAM, and Product teams.

-       Contribute to cross-functional teams to explore and expand the scope of the role, driving innovation in transaction structuring and execution.

-       Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture aligned with ING’s strategic growth objectives.