Job Summary

The product manager will be responsible for building the investment business for mutual funds, conducting research and due-diligence of mutual funds

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    This role would be closely working with the Portfolio Wealth Specialist Team/ WS and MI Product Team to facilitate a deep-dive portfolio review for all clients :
o    > 5 cr AUM to be covered by PWS
o    > 1 cr AUM covered to be covered by WS
•    The role would also have partial exposure to meeting and interacting with clients as an understudy to the Wealth Specialists.
•    Portfolio Analyst would also be required to work closely with MI product teams to align client portfolio’s as per our India Market Outlook.
•    We would institute a 2 PR mandate for all True Qualified Clients.
The role would also require learning / adoption of key portfolio tools like District D, Morning Star and Blomberg data to prepare client portfolio decks.
Building the investment business and especially mutual funds to achieve leadership position in the marketplace. Responsible for product research and due diligence of mutual funds. 

Business
•    Work with AMC partners to gather inputs for performing quality analysis and due diligence on funds. The person will be responsible for product research with responsibility of running our product research committees, due-diligence, and preparation of Fund Select. 

Processes
•    Ensuring the appropriateness of the products and compliance of all internal and regulatory related policies. Ensure the implementation of appropriate systems and operational processes to measure and manage KPIs and profitability. 

People & Talent
•    Building a performance-oriented culture.

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Skills and Experience

•    Good understanding of the dynamics of the financial services market with particular emphasis on mutual funds.
•    Strategic orientation and aptitude
•    Experience in product management 
•    Well-developed project management skills

Qualifications

•    NISM-Series-V-A: Mutual Fund Distributors Certification Examination
•    NISM-Series-XXI-A: Portfolio Management Services (PMS) Distributors Certification Examination

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.