JOB SUMMARY

The Mercury Programme Planning & Delivery Lead will report directly the Mercury Programme Director and will oversee programme planning and be responsible for it’s timely delivery over the 3-year transformation programme. Mercury as a programme is a critical bank initiative to address gaps in our Data Quality usage with the ultimate goal of reducing risk for the bank, aligning with our overall strategy and meeting our regulatory requirements.

Role Responsibilties

• Management of the programme plan and alignment with workstreams to ensure integration with the overall Mercury Programme Delivery Roadmap, including key phases, deliverables, and timelines. 
• Tracking, measuring and reporting progress and impact for Programme Mercury against Key Results and Benefits.
• Identification, Tracking, and resolution of Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies Across Workstreams and Stakeholders and documentation in the RAID log
• Workstream Charter Documentation (Workstream Problem Statement, Objectives, Deliverables, Timelines / Roadmap and Gantt Charts)
• Develop a deep and comprehensive understanding of the Bank’s strategy especially as it pertains to the areas of Data and more specifically Data Quality
• Understand the regulatory landscape which is driving the CDO agenda
• Ensure the alignment with Programme Mercury’s deliverables with both the CDO’s strategy and more broadly the bank’s strategy
• Embed the Strategy into the milestones, deliverables and impact the Programme will drive
• This role will need to work closely with the broader bank’s Businesses and Functions to ensure that the deliverables which Programme Mercury produces are then adopted by Bank 
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the bank to drive their adoption roadmaps 

• Collate these roadmaps to develop and overall view of Bank wide adoption and subsequent data quality risk buy down over time.
• Ensure the programme is operating within the processes which the bank maintains 
• Programme Mercury operates under an Agile ways of working, understanding of Agile process and principles is necessary for the role
• Cultivate trust among team members to facilitate teamwork and enhance team efficiency.
• Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement, ensuring the team are drivers and owners of client outcomes.
• Assess risks that threaten processes related to GDP and design control measures that could mitigate the risks effectively.
• Ensure that key control activities are being carried out as design and monitor effectiveness of the control measures.
• 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 the [CDO] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate

Skills and Experience

• Strategic E2E programme planning and delivery across a complex, multi-stream, multi-year initiative
• Total capture and management of interdependent deliverables that fulfil implementation of the Group’s Data Management Strategy end-to-end.
• Overall capture and management of interdependent deliverables across Business and Function Risk Treatment Plans, embedded within programme delivery.
• Total capture, prioritisation, and management of multiple release schedules, considering BCBS 239 Compliance Principles, and uplift of all in-scope systems, critical data elements, data flows and associated architecture, and control environment in a consistent and rigorous manner.
• Orchestration of the Data Management Strategy roadmap across all Business and Functions, and through interdependent programmes’ data workstreams, including strategic GCFO programmes, uplifting financial, capital and liquidity regulatory reporting, and Technology and Architecture programmes simplifying the Bank’s data estate and consolidation of multiple legacy data platforms.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Facilitation
• Change Control
• Data Governance
• Data Risk Management 
• Product Ownership
• Strategy & Business support

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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