You won't be selling a service. You'll be selling banks a way to optimise their regulatory capital.
Since CRR3/CRD VI came into force, European banks can use ratings from ESMA-registered ECAIs to calculate risk weights under the standardised approach. Our client is exactly that: an independent European credit rating agency built specifically for SMEs and midcaps, authorised across all 27 EU member states. Your pitch is regulatory, financial and institutional at once — and right now, nobody else in the market is making it.
Our client is an ESMA-registered European credit rating agency specialised exclusively in SMEs and midcaps (revenues from €0 to €1.5bn), with a presence in two major European financial hubs. It is backed at board level by senior figures from European systemic banking and multilateral finance, and is on an ambitious multi-year growth path to become the reference rating agency for European midcaps.
This is a market-creating role inside a company in fast growth. There is no finished playbook. You'll build the route into European banking where one doesn't yet exist.
Lead the company's commercial development with European financial institutions, positioning midcap credit ratings as a strategic tool for regulatory capital management under CRR3/CRD VI. You'll operate at C-suite level — CFOs, capital management teams, CROs and heads of models — owning the full cycle from first conversation to signed agreement.
In a rating agency, your personal credibility is part of the product. Independence, objectivity and transparency aren't decorative — they're regulated by law and existential to the business. We hire for integrity, systemic thinking, rigour and executive presence, and we don't compromise on them.
Selection is run by Ethikos under its Conscious Selection Methodology™ — we assess not only what you've done, but how you decide and whether your way of operating is sustainable. Expect a competency-based interview, a values conversation, a live business case (pitching to a bank's capital-management team), an AI-skills exercise on a real Pilar 3 report, and a final interview with company leadership.
The world of work is changing faster than ever. AI, globalisation, new generations and social demands are reshaping the way organisations attract, engage and care for their people.
At Ethikos 3.0, we are not just adapting to this change – we are leading it.
We are the ethical alternative in people management, combining cutting-edge talent solutions with a deep commitment to human values and planetary wellbeing.
🌍 What we do
We help organisations find, develop and empower talent through innovative methodologies that align people with purpose. Our expertise covers:
Conscious Recruitment: selecting people not only for skills, but for values and cultural fit.
Leadership & Development: building leaders who inspire, not just manage.
Talent Mobility: connecting professionals with opportunities that matter.
Sustainable HR Consulting: integrating impact, wellbeing and performance.
💡 What makes us different
Every project with Ethikos generates positive impact beyond business.
We reinvest part of our profits into social and environmental causes, and our clients decide where that impact goes. With us, hiring talent also means building a better world.
✨ Our Mission
To prove that business can be human, profitable and sustainable at the same time.
🚀 Our Dream
To become a global benchmark for ethical, conscious and future-ready people management, inspiring a movement where companies grow not just for themselves, but for people, society and the planet.
