JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

This role is part of the CRES and SCM Strategic Change Team which is within S&T COO team.  As part of the performance and governance function, this role will provide Portfolio Management across the Investment Portfolios for CRES and SCM.  This will cover working with CRES and SCM Programme Managers on implementation of S&T process/control requirements (aligned to Change Delivery Standards), assurance of process compliance within the investment portfolios and support on use of Clarity to govern the portfolios.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the CRES and SCM functions and strategy including the scorecard metrics.  

Processes
•    Ensure all initiative deliverables, artefacts and approvals are stored in a structured discoverable format for future recovery and audit
•    Prepare, manage and maintain, and track quality of key deliverables in terms of value creation from each initiative with clear alignment to S&T business plan and scorecard metrics.
•    Ensuring Clarity and JIRA are up to date including initiatives’ unified backlog, impact to business scorecard, key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and capacity management to be tracked and reported to the appropriate governance bodies.

People & Talent
•    Embrace the Agile philosophy and continuously seek feedback and improve the governance and improve portfolio governance
•    Support Chief Product Owners and Product Owners to facilitate/assure PgSCs as required.

Risk Management
•    Closely monitor High Operational Risk Projects and adhere to the OR policy on project management
•    Closely monitor in-flight strategic projects and report key risks, issues and mitigating actions. Ensure appropriate escalation and management attention.

Governance
•    Assure governance standards across the Portfolio, including tracking, monitoring and updating the benefits or value delivered by initiatives 
•    Manage PgSCs with adherence to the Change Delivery Standards in line with S&T Portfolio and the Bank’s control and governance framework 
•    Assure adherence to SDLC controls and propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate
•    Proactively maintain initiatives library with quality and completeness, including auditable approval trails 
•    Ensure all submissions to investment committees and working groups (PgSCs and MPR/QPR) are of the right quality and are timely.
•    Review, control and report on financial status of the individual components and overall portfolio as per the bank’s standards.

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

•    Chief Product Owners, Product Owners and Programme Managers for SCM and CRES
•    CRES and SCM MTs
•    Strategy & Talent COO organisation
•    Enterprise Change Management
•    Strategy & Talent Finance organisation

Our Ideal Candidate
•    A Bachelor's degree in Business, Administration, or a related field. A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be advantageous.
•     5 + years of PM or PMO experience in large and complex, multi-geography, multidisciplinary projects.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Organisation and Leadership skills, ability to manage multiple deadlines and effectively prioritise
•    Able to get things done in a quick-paced environment. Be transparent and open around what doesn’t work and what does

•    Technical reporting writing across various types of target audiences

•    Knowledge of Clarity, JIRA, Tableau and ECM Change Delivery Standards.

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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