Job Summary

•    Drive expansion of doc trade business within Americas Trade business
•    Own documentary trade product governance for Americas
•    Drive and analyse Doc Trade P&L performance
•    Manage and optimise Risk Management related to documentary trade products
•    Monitor market trends & client requirements, leverage insights to enhance offerings

Key Responsibilities

•    Understand the Trade Finance market in terms of size, share, structure, potential, customer segmentation, buyer behaviors, market and regulatory influences and competitor analysis within each country and region for the relevant product sets.  Participate in market research, as required.
•    Quantify and provide information to country & group management on above analysis and the impact & economic consequences of market trends, changing customer requirements and competitor offerings for the dual purpose of performance management and strategy development.  Implement actions as required.
•    Act as a knowledge expert on the product sets including financials (P&L, Balance sheet, KPIs etc) and coordinate annual budgets & ongoing forecasts.  Provide suggestions to improve profitability & performance and implement any approved recommendations.

•    Gather and evaluate key statistics to determine the current state of the business, isolate changes in the business drivers, identify opportunities and threats to the Trade Finance business.  
•    Lead in the identification and prioritization of product & channel requirements and gaps (in the country, make recommendations for new development and secure funding where necessary.
•    Manage the local implementation of new products and/or enhancements developed to meet country needs.
•    Provide support to the local sales team on new products and/or channels, including major enhancements. This includes arranging product training sessions for the sales team and ensuring that products/channels are properly supported by Operations, Technology, Legal following their introduction.

•    Ensure that product programs are approved and kept up to date locally for the relevant WB products and channels.
•    Provide support (and where required lead) in the following activities: product sales campaigns, RFP responses, complex customer implementations, advice on customer preferential pricing, channel or product migrations.  

Qualifications

•   Education - undergraduate, preferably masters
•   Languages- fluency in English
•   Experience- prerequisite 3 years + of  product management in international trade (Documentary Trade Products, Channels and Platforms) with a top tier trade bank. Exposure to trade operations fucntion is also 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 ter

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 152,000USD to 190,000USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers 

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.