Job Summary

•    Support the delivery of Process Excellence (PE) initiatives across the enterprise, focusing on process analysis, redesign and optimisation.
•    Partner with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and project teams to identify process pain points, challenges and improvement opportunities.
•    Facilitate current state assessments and future state design to improve client, colleague and shareholder outcomes.
•    Apply PE methodologies, tools, templates and execution playbooks to deliver quality analysis and recommendations.
•    Drive process transformation through simplification, standardisation, digitisation and automation.
•    Contribute to the bank’s ambition to standardise, simplify and digitise processes while eliminating waste and improving efficiency.
•    Support project delivery activities by providing PE expertise during initiation, design and analysis phases.
•    Help embed foundational Process Excellence capabilities across the organisation to raise transformation ambition and deliver sustainable value.

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead and deliver Process Excellence initiatives by partnering with stakeholders to analyse, redesign and transform processes, driving measurable improvements in client experience, operational efficiency, risk management and business outcomes.
•    Drive process transformation through current state analysis, future state design, and delivery of sustainable business outcomes.
•    Apply Process Excellence methodologies to simplify, standardise, digitise and automate processes across the enterprise.
•    Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to identify opportunities, shape solutions, and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and client outcomes.
•    Establish governance, performance metrics and value tracking to ensure transparency, accountability and successful benefits realisation.
•    Champion a culture of continuous improvement, change adoption and process ownership while maintaining strong risk and compliance standards.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills    
•    Project Management / Change Management
•    Process Excellence / Culture Transformation
•    Process Excellence Methodologies / Certifications

Motivations

•    Energised by solving complex business problems and transforming inefficient processes into simpler, more effective ways of working.
•    Motivated by identifying improvement opportunities and delivering tangible outcomes for clients, colleagues and the Bank.
•    Enjoys partnering with diverse stakeholders to influence decisions, drive alignment and shape future-state solutions.
•    Driven by continuous improvement, innovation and the opportunity to challenge the status quo.
•    Finds satisfaction in using data, analysis and structured methodologies to uncover insights and inform decision-making.
•    Thrives in fast-paced transformation environments where change, problem-solving and value creation are constant priorities.
•    Passionate about building Process Excellence capabilities and enabling others to adopt a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement.
•    Motivated by delivering measurable impact through simplification, digitisation, automation and operational excellence. 

Qualifications

Key Experiences    
•    Minimum 5 years in the project / programme management space, supporting or delivering mid-large size, complex initiatives in the financial services industry
•    Experience in conducting current state analysis and future state design
•    Subject matter expertise across CIB / WRB / Functions key processes 
•    Knowledge, certification and experience running Process Excellence activities and deliverables, leveraging traditional techniques and methodologies (e.g. VOC, Lean, Six Sigma)
•    Ability to run workshops effectively
•    Knowledge of “SCB ways”
•    Strong influencing and communication skills – oral, written and presentation. Proven success in communicating technical information in a simple way.
•    A can-do attitude committed to doing what it takes to deliver. Diligent and detail orientated
•    Growth mindset. Appetite, ambition and ability to experiment and learn quickly
•    Excellent stakeholder management, presentation and communication skills. Establishes effective working relationships across the organisation – from senior management to individual teams
•    A team player; multi-culturally aware with a proven ability to work in a global service delivery model, with onshore and offshore resources
•    Confident and courageous to raise/escalate issues in a pro-active, professional, and timely manner
•    Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values

Languages
•    English

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.