Job Summary

About SC Ventures
SC Ventures is Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served. We are building ecosystems around high conviction themes including Fintech, Digital Assets, AI, Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, and Sustainability & Inclusion. We are a global team of "Members", including dedicated colleagues from the SCB Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

About SCM
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is responsible for the overall commercial management of how the bank engages and spends money with its external third-party vendors. To meet increasing business and efficiency, the SCM team is looking for a candidate with strong experience in sourcing / third party risk management and the gravitas to engage stakeholders within SCB business function to support key priorities. The successful candidate will be responsible for influencing and executing sourcing and third-party risk management activities in collaboration with various SCV functions and Venture teams.

Processes / Project Management
•    Use Group SCM tools and processes (e.g. Ariba, Process Unity) to manage sourcing, approvals, and onboarding activities effectively.
•    Ensure sourcing and third party activities comply with Group and SCV policies and standards, applied proportionately for venture contexts.
•    Contribute to continuous improvement of SCM processes to make them simpler, faster, and more scalable for ventures.

Risk Management
•    Able to direct Contract Owners and ensure engagement risk assessment accuracy as it relates to the Product/Service Category through business and risk teams collaboratively.
•    Coordinate and support Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) activities, including monitoring of third risk re assessments, contract
      renewals, outsourcing records, and ongoing compliance requirements.
•    Support ventures with end to end third party lifecycle management, including onboarding, renewals, amendments, and exits.
•    Supporting Venture to manage third party lifecycle including Day 2 vendor/contract management activities i.e., ensuring risk 
     assessments, outsourcing registry are up to date, contract renewal executed timely etc.

Key stakeholders
•    Key stakeholder interactions are Venture Business / Function Heads in Singapore
•    SCM Group teams; Group Heads, Category Managers, In country sourcing & governance managers
•    Cross functional teams during strategic sourcing events & third party risk management activities. This include, but not limited to,  Business stakeholders, Legal, Compliance, Tax and Finance

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.

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures;
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Procurement / Supply Chain Tools (e.g., SAP Ariba etc.)
•    Excel for tracking vendors, approvals, renewals, spend etc.
•    MS O365

•    Strong executor mindset with clear ownership; able to drive multiple third‑party requests end‑to‑end until the vendors are onboarded and contracts are signed.
•    Good working knowledge of contracts & familiar with legal agreements
•    Highly effective at coordinating and following up with requestors, approvers, Legal, Risk, Tech and suppliers to keep processes moving.
•    Comfortable operating at pace, managing multiple third‑party engagements in parallel, and engaging confidently with senior stakeholders across multi‑party environments.
•    Strong experience in Supply Chain Management / Procurement with hands‑on experience with sourcing, supplier selection, commercial
     negotiations, and contracting, including use of Ariba other supply chain / procurement systems.
•    Candidates with lighter sourcing experience but strong delivery, coordination, and stakeholder skills will also be considered - 
     experience in banking or financial services, including use of Ariba or similar tools, contract management, and exposure to TPRM and outsourcing requirements, would be a strong advantage.
•    Good analytical and project management skills, including Excel/MS O365 and spend data analysis, would be a strong advantage.
•    Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

•    At least 8 years’ working experience in procurement and/or vendor management (in Technology and Corporate Services category) and project management.
•    Holds at least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Economics or Business Administration
•    Fluent in 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.