Senior origination specialists handle the more substantive origination work — managing strategic counterparty relationships, leading complex deals, and often guiding junior staff.
Workdays mix outreach at depth — strategic conversations, complex contracts — with internal coordination about pricing, terms, and risk. Senior originators often hold the longest counterparty relationships in the operation, and those relationships are part of what makes the book valuable.
Collaboration involves counterparties, internal trading or operations, and junior origination staff. What's harder than expected is the long horizon of relationship-building — origination is about counterparties choosing you over years, and the senior role inherits that horizon while still being measured on shorter cycles.
People who thrive tend to be knowledgeable about their market, patient, and good at long-term relationship-building. If you've built a counterparty book, the role often fits well. People who entered origination expecting fast wins, or who can't handle the slow nature of relationship-based business at scale, usually find senior origination work harder than transactional roles in the same market.
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