Job Summary

We are seeking a highly organised, self-driven Project Manager / Business Manager to support the delivery of analytics, dashboard and transformation initiatives within CIB Operations.

This role is critical in driving execution discipline across complex, multi stakeholder initiatives. The role holder will own end to end project coordination, including stakeholder management, task tracking, documentation, governance support, and executive ready communications (presentations, updates, packs).

The role requires someone who can operate independently under ambiguity, bring structure to fast moving initiatives, and act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support delivery of the Analytics & Insights agenda by translating priorities into clear project plans, milestones, and deliverables.
•    Bring structure, discipline, and clarity across multiple concurrent initiatives.
•    Act as a central coordination point to ensure alignment across business, analytics, technology, and governance stakeholders.

Business
•    Manage day‑to‑day project execution, ensuring commitments are tracked and delivered on time.
•    Proactively engage senior stakeholders to clarify requirements, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
•    Prepare high‑quality executive materials (PowerPoint decks, status updates, summaries) for senior management, forums, and committees.
•    Support ad‑hoc business requests related to analytics initiatives, dashboards, and performance management.

Processes
•    Own and maintain project artefacts, including: 
        •    Project plans and timelines
        •    RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
        •    Action trackers and decision logs
        •    Meeting minutes and follow ups
•    Drive regular project cadence (working sessions, checkpoints, governance updates). 
•    Ensure documentation is accurate, structured, and audit ready. 
•    Coordinate UAT, sign offs, and evidence where required for releases and communications.

People & Talent
•    Work closely with analysts, developers, designers, and business users to ensure smooth delivery.
•    Support onboarding and knowledge transfer for new team members and project resources.
•    Demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and collaboration.

Risk Management
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role remit
•    Proactively manage risks and establish/ monitor controls to improve the overall state of the risk management and operating framework
•    Ensure a clear and uniform approach towards implementation of the global operating model for all related processes and adherence to DOIs

Governance
•    Ensure, lead, and monitor strict adherence to regulatory requirements
•    Ensure strong due diligence on document safekeeping and data confidentiality
•    Ensure risks are clearly identified, quantified, and escalated
•    Ensure compliance with relevant internal & external policies and procedures, regulatory and statutory requirements

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Displaying exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Valued Behaviours and Code of Conduct. 
•    Taking personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identifying, escalating, mitigating and resolving risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    CIB CDO
•    CIB COO
•    CIB Operations Central team & Network
•    Client Coverage
•    Transaction Banking
•    Markets
•    Global Banking Operations (GBS)
•    CFCC
•    PSS
•    Technology

Other Responsibilities
•    Embedding Here for good and the Group’s brand and valued behaviours
•    Performing other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Skills and Experience

•    Project Management
•    Stakeholder Management
•    Documentation & Governance
•    Business Communication
•    Presentation Development (PPT)
•    Business – Products & Processes
•    Data Conversion and Reporting

Qualifications

•    8+ years’ experience in Project Management, Business Management, PMO, or delivery roles within banking or other large organisations.
•    Strong understanding of the analytics / data project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and scoping through build, UAT, sign‑off, release, and ongoing change.
•    Extensive experience operating in high‑stakeholder, matrix environments, including engagement with senior management and multiple delivery teams.
•    Strong governance, risk, and control knowledge, with hands‑on experience working within formal governance frameworks.
•    Demonstrated ability to set up, maintain, and enforce project management and documentation standards, including project plans, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, and evidence packs.
•    Excellent written and presentation skills, with proven experience producing senior‑ready PowerPoint decks, status updates, and executive summaries.
•    Proven experience delivering data, analytics, reporting, or dashboard initiatives, working across business, analytics, and technology teams is preferred.
•    Highly self‑driven, organised, and detail‑oriented, able to operate independently under ambiguity and manage multiple parallel workstreams.

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.