Job Summary

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is responsible for the overall commercial and risk management with the bank’s third-party providers. To meet increasing business demands, the SCM team is looking for a candidate with strong experience and expertise in Source to Contract (S2C) Risk and Governance, and the gravitas to engage stakeholders within SCB business function to support key priorities. The successful candidate will be accountable for owning and managing Source-to-Contract risks within the First Line of Defence, ensuring that risks identified through operations, audits, regulatory reviews, and monitoring activities are actively managed, remediated, and prevented from reoccurrence.

The role ensures that management action plans are delivered to closure, control enhancements are embedded into the S2C process and tooling, and lessons learned are systematically fed into S2C change, enablement, and training.

Key Responsibilities

•    Act as the First Line owner of S2C process risks, including sourcing governance, supplier selection and contracting.
•    Maintain clear ownership of risk events, issues, and control weaknesses arising within S2C.
•    Ensure risks are assessed, prioritised, and managed in line with the bank’s risk appetite and operational risk framework.

•    Own and drive management action plans (MAPs) for all S2C-related issues, including audit findings, regulatory observations, and internal risk events.
•    Ensure MAPs are clearly defined, time-bound, and sustainably remediated, not treated as one-off fixes.
•    Track progress, escalate delays or blockers, and provide transparent status reporting to senior management.

•    Act as the primary First Line point of contact for Internal Audit, Compliance reviews, and regulatory requests relating to S2C.
•    Coordinate evidence gathering and responses, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
•    Ensure audit outcomes and regulatory feedback are translated into concrete process, control, or behavioural changes.

•    Analyse root causes of S2C issues and audit findings to identify systemic weaknesses.
•    Partner with the Global Process Owner and S2C stakeholders to embed preventative controls upstream, reducing reliance on detective or manual controls.
•    Ensure control improvements are practical, proportionate, and embedded into day-to-day execution.

•    Act as the bridge between risk outcomes and S2C change initiatives.
•    Ensure insights from audits, incidents, and risk monitoring directly inform:

o    Process design changes
o    Policy and standard updates
o    Tool enhancements (e.g. workflow, approvals, data capture)
o    Training and enablement materials

•    Prevent repeat findings by ensuring lessons learned are institutionalised.

•    Define and maintain risk and control MI for S2C, including issue trends, recurring exceptions, and control effectiveness.
•    Use MI to proactively identify emerging risks and inform prioritisation of change activity.
•    Provide clear, executive-level reporting on risk posture and remediation status.

•    Partner closely with Category Management, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Technology to drive ownership and timely remediation.
•    Challenge stakeholders constructively where risk acceptance or non-compliance is proposed.
•    Support change adoption by ensuring clear communication and enablement of new controls and processes.

•    Process Owner – Source-to-Contract
•    Global Process Owner – SCM Governance and Risk
•    Procurement & Category Management
•    Operational Risk, Compliance, and Legal
•    Internal Audit
•    Procurement Technology & Change teams

•    Timely closure of S2C-related management action plans
•    Reduction in repeat audit findings and control failures
•    Improved audit and regulatory outcomes for S2C
•    Effective translation of risk insights into process and tool changes
•    Strong stakeholder confidence in First Line risk ownership
 

Skills and Experience

•    Bachelor/Master Degree with 5 years’ experience of which experience in Business Planning would be a plus
•    5–10 years experience in Procurement, S2C/S2P, or Supply Chain Management, with specific experience in risk management.
•    Significant experience in procurement, S2C operations, risk management, or governance within a regulated environment.
•    Proven track record of owning and delivering management action plans.
•    Strong understanding of First Line of Defence responsibilities.
•    Experience engaging with Internal Audit and regulatory stakeholders.
•    Ability to translate risk issues into practical operational improvements.

•    Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
•    Experience developing training content, playbooks, or capability-building programmes.
•    Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive-level reporting.
•    An experienced user of AI
•    Regional Language capabilities

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Third party Risk and Governance
•    Supplier Chain Management
•    Business Writing
•    Presentation Skills
•    Internal Controls
•    Product Design and Development
•    Program Management/Governance 

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.

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