RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Oversee the development and management of Fixed Income & Structured Products platform & solutions tailored for Retail Banking clients as well as SME Banking clients, ensuring alignment with broader business strategies, enhancing investment product offerings and complying with governance/regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will work closely with various teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality investment solutions that meet the needs of our clients and align with the bank's strategic goals.

Business

•    Implement comprehensive product strategies aimed at achieving key performance indicators

•    Continuously monitor market trends and evaluate product performance to guide strategic decision-making

•    Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across departments to effectively communicate the bank’s latest market insights, promotional offers, and important updates to frontline teams as well as directly to clients for improved engagement

•    Oversee the design, structuring, and launch of innovative structured products and fixed income solutions.
•    Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify client needs and market gaps, translating these insights into actionable product strategies.
•    Ensure all products meet regulatory requirements and internal risk management standards.
•    Develop platforms with technology team to deliver best in class client experience from investment product discoveries 

Processes

•    Maintain a strong focus on designing, refining, and optimizing the entire product sales process and digital platform with the goal of improving the overall customer experience, increasing operational efficiency, and ensuring full compliance with relevant regulatory requirements.

People & Talent
•    Proven experience in product management, with a track record of leading successful product initiatives

Risk Management
•    Manage technology change risk, platform resilience risk and incident.
•    Implement robust risk management frameworks to monitor and mitigate risks associated with structured products and fixed income portfolios.
•    Conduct regular reviews and stress tests to ensure the resilience of the product offerings under various market conditions.
•    Work closely with the risk management team to ensure alignment with the bank's overall risk appetite.

Governance

•    Manage product governance, ad-hoc regular regulatory and/or internal reviews/assessments

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.

Key Stakeholders

•    Group wealth solution
•    Group/local segment
•    Group/local digital banking
•    CMPS dealing desk
•    Distribution Network
•    Finance
•    Technology 
•    Operations
•    Operational Risk
•    Market risk

Other Responsibilities
•    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.

•    You could be nominated as Employee Volunteering representative, Diversity & Inclusion member and/or contributor to other non-business initiatives.

Qualifications
•    Proven experience in product management, with a track record of leading successful product initiatives.
•    Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
•    Excellent people management skills.
•    Proficiency in product management tools and methodologies, such as Agile and Scrum.
•    Solid understanding of risk management, governance, and regulatory compliance.
•    Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
•    Education     Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; master or advanced degree preferred.
•    Languages     Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Product Development Strategy
•    Communication skills
•    Influencing and negotiation
•    Manage Conduct
•    Business – Strategy and Business Model
•    Banking Products and Services Development

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.