Job Summary

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Business Planning Manager to support our Europe business, with a focus on driving performance, operational excellence, and strategic execution across the UK. Working closely with the Europe Coverage Chief of Staff and senior stakeholders—supporting the UK CEO—you will lead critical initiatives in business reviews, client portfolio management, sales enablement, frontline communications, and strategy delivery. This role offers exposure to cross-functional leadership and the opportunity to contribute to high-impact decisions across our Corporate and Institutional Banking franchise.

You will take ownership of UK business planning, governance coordination, and regulatory oversight, working in partnership with Finance, HR, CABM, Compliance, and COO teams. Your remit will include preparing risk forum submissions, managing financial performance metrics (e.g. revenue, RoRWA, RWA, costs), and aligning the UK business strategy with budget delivery.

You will also support the UK CEO on matters of governance, risk, and regulatory engagement, and represent the business at key committees and forums. A central aspect of this role involves stakeholder coordination, internal communications, and driving alignment across Coverage, Product, and Country teams through strategic initiatives such as corporate planning, townhalls, and business reviews.

If you’re ready to play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of a leading financial institution while operating at the intersection of governance, commercial strategy, and execution, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Communication 
•    Coordinate communications to ensure alignment with country and business priorities.
•    Organise yearly or ad hoc strategy days, townhalls to ensure close communication and alignment between Coverage, products, and functional teams in Country.

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
•    UK CEO
•    Country Heads Client Coverage and Product
•    Cluster Chief of Staff and BPM team
•    Business and Product teams
•    Second Line of defence (Credit, Compliance, Legal etc.)

Skills and Experience

We are looking for a seasoned professional with 8–10 years of experience, ideally in Coverage or Corporate Banking business roles, with a solid understanding of the Standard Chartered network and geographies.

You will bring strong execution capabilities, the ability to manage ambiguity, and experience working across multiple, time-sensitive projects.

A deep understanding of risk, governance, and regulatory frameworks is essential, alongside proven strategy planning, stakeholder management, and account planning experience. The role also demands excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to coordinate at senior levels including with the UK CEO and Business Heads, and a high level of resilience and initiative to drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

•    Good understanding of Corporate Banking and the SCB Network/Geographies
•    Leadership qualities and deep understanding of the financial services industry
•    Prior experience in Coverage or Business Roles preferred.
•    Knowledge of regulatory compliance, risk management, and audit processes.
•    Strong execution skills, ability to manage ambiguity, work on multiple projects and under tight timelines. 
•    Take Initiative and drive tangible business outcomes. 
•    Proven ability to drive client strategies for business growth and revenue enhancement
•    Ability to partner with senior leadership and manage strategic and operational initiatives.
•    Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis and financial reporting.

Competencies

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.