Job Summary

This is a Fixed Term position for 12 months

The role holder will partner with multiple workstream leads and process excellence team members across the PU programme. The objective is to ensure that PU Programme is delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost, quality, in line with the Bank’s change delivery standards.

Responsibilities
•    Programme Management Office
•    Provide PMO support across PU workstreams, including progress tracking, status reporting, resource allocations, milestones, and OKRs
•    Financial/ Resource Management:  Monitor project budgets and allocation, prepare monthly cost plans, analyse variances, initiate corrective actions, to stay on Green status for cost.
•    Coordinate vendor engagement and procurement processes including invoice tracking
•    Monitor wave plans and key deliverables and collaborate with workstream leads for effective workplan management 
•    Maintain structured documentation of artifacts in SharePoint/ Confluence; ensure uptodate and auditable records.
•    Support stakeholder engagement by consolidating inputs, meeting minutes and following up on actions and decisions, preparing steering packs and other reports as needed.
•    Drive alignment with bank change delivery standards, ensuring all workstreams in the programme are compliant.
•    Act as liaison to the central governance team for project audits, assurance and health-checks

Key Stakeholders
•    Group Transformation Office
•    Process Excellence Team
•    Programme Director
•    QPR Assurance
•    Other programme stakeholders

Our Ideal Candidate
•    7+ years in the project / programme - PMO space, supporting or delivering mid-large size, complex initiatives
•    Strategic thinking, ability to identify opportunities and translate this into roadmap and actionable plan
•    Knowledge of Process Excellence methodologies (lean, six sigma, zero base design) and proven execution track record    
•    Strong influencing and communication skills – oral, written and presentation. Proven success in communicating technical information in a simple way.
•    A can-do attitude committed to doing what it takes to deliver. Diligent and detail orientated
•    Growth mindset. Appetite, ambition and ability to experiment and learn quickly
•    Excellent stakeholder management, presentation and communication skills. Establishes effective working relationships across the organisation – from senior to individual teams
•    A team player; multi-culturally aware with a proven ability to work in a global service delivery model, with onshore and offshore resources
•    Confident and courageous to raise/escalate issues in a pro-active, professional, and timely manner
•    Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values

Qualification
•    Education     Bachelors
•    Certifications     Preferred PMP, Prince

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.

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