Job Summary

We are looking for a detail-oriented Senior Project Manager to oversee all key projects from inception to execution, with background in Program Management too. The Project manager is responsible for Planning, Monitoring & Executing projects including stakeholder management, business requirement gathering supervising team members, maintaining budgets, enforcing deadlines. Previous experience in managing Compliance, Endpoint devices and infra will be considered as added advantage 
 

Key Responsibilities

To be successful as a Project Manager you must be highly organized. A good Project Management team member can multitask successfully under pressure and handle multiple projects

•    Oversee, manage, facilitate, and execute the delivery of Infra, Endpoints, Collaboration & Communication and Compliance driven projects
•    Potential experience running Classic and Agile approach
•    Helping the team achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work, removing obstacles, and mentoring less experienced team members
•    Develop a deep understanding of our clients requirements and how best to respond from an infrastructure or end user perspective – taking into consideration their past experiences, their immediate challenges, and their strategic roadmap.
•    Planning – collaborate with stakeholders to develop a project management plan to deliver the infrastructure solution as designed, on time and to budget – and in accordance with the banks infrastructure delivery lifecycle process.
•    Manage product roadmap and prioritize the backlog
•    Works on prioritized work by the product owner in the sprint.
•    focus on essential components of the project and let go of unnecessary or distracting work. 
•    The ability to thrive and remain calm under pressure
•    Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with others.
•    Identify customer needs and feedback to the product owner during the course of the project
•    Ensuring availability of required resources to deliver projects to the agreed time line and budget.
•    Supervise team members and ensure that deadlines are followed.
•    Continuously track Project Plan to explore any possibility to go faster 
•    Enforce health and safety protocol, make sure signs of stress are escalated to program director.
•    Identify the resources needed for the project and source these materials.
•    Identify, mitigate and communicate key assumptions, issues, risks and dependencies to master projects & relevant control and governance committees.
•    Oversee the implementation of project improvements.
•    Ensures internal process, standards and risk compliance (including security, regulatory and audit requirements) are met
•    Ensuring that systems are commissioned following appropriate change control processes, and with knowledge transfer, training and required operational documentation provided to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) teams
•    Highlight, document and escalate risks and issues for management attention and or provide mitigation plans
•    Where required, re-engineer solutions due to any changes in scope, ensuring effective project change control and reforecast.
•    Review of solutions post-implementation & follow through to project sign-off & closure
•    Must be able to manage external (vendor) resources.
•    Certification in PMP and Scrum 

Strategy

• Supports the program strategy 

Business

• Facilitates customer journey 

Processes

• Highlights and addresses process gaps 

People & Talent 

• Supports diversity 

Risk Management

• Applies stringent risk management practices 

Governance 

• Adheres to bank standards 

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Lead the [country / business unit / function/XXX [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    [Insert local regulator e.g. PRA/FCA prescribed responsibilities and Rationale for allocation].
[Where relevant - Additionally, for subsidiaries or relevant non -subsidiaries]
•    Serve as a Director of the Board of [insert name of entities]
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders

• Service Heads, Global Head, CIOs, Business Owners, Product Owners, Hive Leads, Business Contacts

Other Responsibilities

• Good to have exposure (preferably 1 or more technically in depth) and understanding of infrastructure technologies; including open systems (UNIX/Windows), databases, storage area network, local/wide area networks, middleware, application servers, software development environments, high availability, systems management,  and security infrastructure.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Over all 10 years of Infrastructure Project management, with Minimum 5 years in managing Datacentre Projects
• Must Have PMP Certification
• Must have exposure to APAC projects in a financial industry

• Over all 10 years of Infrastructure Project management, with Minimum 5 years in managing Datacentre Projects
• Must Have PMP Certification
• Must have exposure to APAC projects in a financial industry

Skills and Experience

• Project Management
• Program Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaboration & Communication
• IT Infra skills
• Cloud Solutions
• Compliance & Regulatory projects experience

Qualifications

• Good to have PMP certified,  Scrum Expert with more than 10 years exp

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.