Job Summary

Strategy/ Business
Programme/ Project Team Leadership
•    Creates strong credibility for self within the project team based on respect
•    Drives team members toward delivering on their commitments
•    Creates feeling of cohesiveness and positive working environment within the project team
•    Conflicts and difficult interpersonal situations are tackled and dealt with effectively
•    Demonstrates good technical and/ or business understanding to manage project effectively

Stakeholder Management 
•    Builds and maintains strong, positive relationships with stakeholders
•    Ensures key stakeholders are kept aware of project status, risks & issues (‘no surprises’)
•    Manages vendor deliverables and resolves vendor issues

Risk Management
•    Identifies risks and issues early in their existence and maintains the project risk and issue registers on a weekly basis
•    Produces and manages documented, specific resolution action plans, actively seeking to close open items by working with risk/issue owners.

Key Responsibilities

Processes/ Governance
Initiative Delivery, Planning and Tracking 
•    Delivers initiative benefits defined by the business on time within budget whilst adhering to organisational quality standards
•    Builds and maintains initiative plans and schedules showing and accounting for internal and external dependencies
•    Proactively identifies and successfully manages any schedule issues and interdependencies with other projects with no unplanned delays to the project
•    Produces detailed project estimates and validates externally provided estimates carefully
•    Evaluates impact of any requested scope change and presents this to Refinement Forum for discussion
•    Ensures resource requirements/forecasts are built into project schedule and transferred and maintained monthly in Clarity
•    Updates and reviews Lessons Learnt (both intra project and organisational), both prior to and during each project and ensures that no previous mistakes are repeated
•    Maintains the project and BAU metrics library (i.e. actuals against estimates) 

Project Governance, Process and Standards 
•    Ensures projects are delivered according to SCB Governance requirements, 
•    Ensure that ceremonies involving multiple Squads are executed efficiently and provide the right outputs to drive and orchestrate deliveries. 
•    Provides effective coordination and timely recording of minutes & action plans from various project forums  
•    Manages the configuration of project artefacts, ensuring they are up to date 
•    Proactively engages with project team to resolve areas of non-process compliance, escalating to the Leadership if needed
•    Coordinates the transformation of features into backlog items, ensure the alignment of the Squads building and delivering these backlog items (dependencies, resources contention, release trains alignment etc.) 
•    Handle the non-Agile administrative work and supports the Product Owners when engaged by the controls/processes Functions

Communication/ Reporting 
•    Contributes to, analyses and produces management information on regular cycles as required
•    Communicates status (including risks and issues) to central project reporting functions on time without being chased
•    Provides information that facilitates informed and timely decision making

Financial Management 
Manages project budgets, controls spending against the planned cost, analyses any variance and takes necessary corrective action to stay on Green status for Cost, provides timely forecasts and reporting as needed

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    [Fill in for  regulated roles] 
•    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.] * 
•    [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

•    COO & Operations (Group, Regional, Country and Hub)
•    Business - Product/Sales (Global, Regional, Country)
•    Technology (Global and Country)

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in XXXX [country / business unit / team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [List all responsibilities associated with the role]

Skills and Experience

• Negotiation Skills
  Leadership
  Stakeholder Management
  Change Management
  Problem Solving
  Communication Management
  Concern for Quality and Standards
  Project Coordination
  Project Reporting
  Project Schedule Development and Management
  Project Financial Management
  Project Reporting
  Risk & Issue Management
  Scope Development and Management
  Understands and follows Bank governance processes
  Utilises a formal Project Framework

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     GRADUATE
  BUSINESS MGMT DEGREE PREFERRED    
  MEMBERSHIP     PMI
  CERTIFICATIONS     PMP
  CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER (OPTIONAL)
  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.