Job Summary

The Business Planning Manager plays a critical role in supporting the Group Public & Regulatory Affairs (GPRA) function by coordinating strategic, operational, and people-related initiatives across Strategy & Talent (S&T) and the wider Group. Working closely with the Global Heads of GPRA, Group Strategy, and other senior stakeholders, the role is responsible for driving the execution of GPRA’s strategic agenda, managing budgets and resources, and ensuring strong governance, risk oversight, and stakeholder alignment.

This role requires a highly collaborative individual with strong strategic acumen, execution discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex, global environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Global Head of GPRA in defining, implementing, and delivering the function’s vision, strategy, and priorities.
• Ensure alignment with the Global Head of Strategy and the Group’s broader strategic agenda.
• Support delivery and execution of GPRA’s strategic and operational objectives.
• Set and manage the annual agenda for key stakeholder meetings, including priorities, people activities, actions, and follow-ups.
• Own and manage GPRA’s scorecard and deliverables, ensuring timely completion and escalation of risks or issues.
• Deliver the function’s cost budget, identifying opportunities for efficiency and optimized resource deployment.
• Lead and contribute to ad-hoc strategic projects for joint initiatives between GPRA and Group Strategy.
• Support the Policy and Strategic Insights team within GPRA in the systematic analysis of relevant global policy trends, position development and engagement strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in business planning, strategy execution, or COO-style roles within financial services.
• Strong track record managing complex initiatives across conduct, people, risk, projects, and change.
• Demonstrated expertise in organization design and operating model development.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, optimize resources, and drive cost efficiencies.
• Strong project management capability with experience delivering strategic initiatives in a matrixed environment.
• Expertise in the analysis of public policy trends/issues relevant to financial services, and related engagement with public sector / platforms.
• High level of commercial acumen, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification required.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) or relevant professional certifications preferred.
• Experience in Global Policy and/or Regulatory Affairs, , Strategy, or COO functions is highly desirable.

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.