Job Summary

The Business Manager, Coverage MEA, will partner closely with the Cluster Head of Business Management and Coverage leadership across the Middle East and Africa to drive business performance, strategic execution, governance, and organisational effectiveness. The role will support the execution of key business priorities across the franchise, including business planning, performance management, strategic initiatives, governance, executive communications, people agenda and management reporting. Working across multiple countries and stakeholders, the Business Manager will act as a central coordination point between Coverage, Product, Finance, HR, Risk and COO teams to ensure effective execution of regional priorities.

The role requires strong commercial acumen, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate strategic objectives into tangible business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Coverage leadership to drive execution of strategic priorities and business objectives across Middle East & Africa.
• Lead business planning, budgeting and Corporate Plan processes, ensuring alignment with cluster and Group priorities.
• Monitor franchise performance across revenue, client, productivity, capital and cost metrics, identifying risks, opportunities and required management actions.
• Prepare business reviews, management presentations, executive updates and other materials for senior leadership forums.
• Drive governance, management routines and follow-through on key actions, decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Coverage, Product, Risk, Finance, HR and COO teams to support business priorities.
• Support portfolio optimisation, client segmentation, financial planning, portfolio hygiene and other initiatives that improve franchise performance and client coverage effectiveness.
• Provide actionable business insights through performance analysis, management information and frontline reporting.
• Support leadership communications, employee engagement and franchise-wide initiatives that strengthen alignment, collaboration and execution across Middle East & Africa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• Strong understanding of Corporate & Investment Banking clients, products and business drivers.
• Experience working across multiple geographies and stakeholder groups.
• Strong proficiency in business performance management, executive reporting and strategic planning.
• Fluent English, Arabic is a plus.
• Experience tracking revenues, client portfolios, pipelines, KPIs, and business performance.
• Problem solving skills to co-create client strategy, drive root-cause analysis, analyse business performance, etc.
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision making.
• Highly proactive, demonstrating ambition, dedication, and pride in work.
• Willing to challenge the status quo, comfortable interacting with senior management.
• Non-negotiables: CIB experience

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.