Job Summary

The role of Product Manager, Managed Investments is a prime opportunity for an individual passionate about driving growth in investment funds proposition and services to maximize growth of bank’s fee-based income growth and Asset Under Management. This includes conceiving and developing investment products covering the entire spectrum of mutual funds adapted to all client segments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Building a business line that can sustainably grow income and AUM through comprehensive product proposition  

Business - New product development
•    Manage the end-to-end development of investment products including but not limited to mutual funds to grow fee income revenue and assets under management across segments.
•    Lead product ideation or product sourcing, provider sourcing, product approval, provider approval, pricing strategy, seeking sponsorship, training to various segment including Personal, Preferred, Priority & Priority Private. 
•    Establish new product marketing strategy including product direction, positioning strategy, pricing, promotion. 

Investment P&L management: 
•    Manage investment fee income revenue and related investment product activities required to meet corporate financial goals. 
•    Manage cost to target cost/income ratio to meet department and organizational financial goals. 

Processes- Product provider management
•    Conduct due diligence on new product provider and recommend to Group for approval. 
•    Perform periodic due diligence and maintain recorded documentation on existing partners to ensure minimum provider standards are met

Fund Services targets
•    Coordinate investment seminars to increase the level of knowledge and understanding of investments Funds.
•    Coordination of active product updates (internally and externally), 
•    Prepare and coordinate portfolio rebalancing management to best adapt to market conditions.

Product marketing & management
•   Work with investment advisors to provide on-going product related support and activities to grow fee income and AUM. 
•    Collaborate effectively with IA Group and Local WRB management to formulate and implement local investment fund services strategy and business plans within Group and Country guidelines, to achieve Investment 

Skills and Experience

Qualifications & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related discipline; professional investment qualification - e.g. CFA is an advantage.  
• Proven experience in investment product management, mutual funds, or wealth management within a bank or asset management firm.  
• Strong understanding of mutual funds, capital markets, and investment products across client segments.  
• Demonstrated experience in product development, provider management, and P&L management.  

Skills & Competencies  

• Strong analytical and financial skills, with the ability to manage P&L and cost/income metrics.  
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills across Group and Country teams.  
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to train and influence front-line staff.  
• Strategic and commercial mindset with a focus on revenue and AUM growth.  
• High attention to detail, with robust process and documentation discipline.  

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.