Institutional Sales Lead

As a Institutional Sales Lead at IMC, you will play a key role in shaping our direct counterparty ecosystem, helping define how IMC sources, interacts with, and optimizes external off screen liquidity flow.

This role goes beyond traditional counterparty management. You'll partner closely with traders, with direct influence on execution outcomes, liquidity access, and trading performance. Operating at the intersection of trading, quantitative research, and low-latency technology, you'll help ensure our counterparty interactions are fast, scalable, and commercially optimized.

As a senior member of the team, you'll drive key initiatives, contribute to the evolution of our DCP capabilities, and share your expertise with colleagues across trading and technology.

Your Core Responsibilities

Counterparty Ownership & Strategy

Own and manage relationships with IMC’s existing direct counterparties and clearers.

Onboard, build and manage relationships with new direct counterparties.

Act as a senior escalation point for trading, operational, and commercial issues

Execution & Trading Workflow Optimization

Oversee off-screen trading flows from direct counterparties from request phase, to pricing and crossing the trade.

Analyze counterparty behavior, pricing quality, hit ratios, and response times to inform routing and strategy decisions

Develop a deep understanding of market microstructure and how counterparty interaction impacts trading performance

Identify and implement improvements that enhance speed, reliability, and fill quality

Operational Excellence & Process Improvement

Lead initiatives to improve scalability, automation, and data integrity across DCP workflows

Reduce manual touchpoints by partnering with technology on system enhancements

Ensure accurate and timely trade capture, reconciliation, and issue resolution

Drive best practices across trading support and counterparty engagement

Data & Insights

Leverage data to identify inefficiencies, anomalies, and improvement opportunities

Build and maintain reporting on counterparty activity, performance, and operational KPIs

Use tools such as Python, SQL, and Excel to analyze and enhance trading workflows

Your Skills and Experience

10+ years of experience in institutional sales environment with pre-exisiting relationships in equity derivatives, priced or non-priced delta one markets in APAC.

Deep understanding of market structure, execution mechanics, and counterparty interaction in derivatives or equities markets

Proven track record of owning counterparty relationships and influencing trading performance

Experience in options, ETF and Chinese mainland markets is preferred.

Strong technical fluency, with experience working alongside engineering teams on trading systems and infrastructure

Advanced analytical skills, with proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar tools

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.