Job Description

Role Responsibilities
Reporting into the SCM COO, the Lead, Strategic Programme Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM) will be responsible for ensuring adequate planning and effective governance of the strategic programmes within the scope of the SCM Chief Operating Officer (COO) Function. Key focus on assisting the management of Change Programmes across the Source to Pay Journey as funded through the S2P Refinement Forum. Additionally, the role will drive Performance Management across the Supply Chain Management function globally.

Programme Planning and Governance

• Ensure adequate planning and governance infrastructure for the key strategic initiatives within the SCM COO Function. This is to ensure that there is a consistent approach in overseeing and governing the Departmental strategic initiatives.
• Drive collaboration across Businesses and Technology teams to ensure alignment of priorities for the various initiatives.
• Align with Source to Pay (S2P) Refinement Forum in governing strategic programmes and producing meaningful scorecard metrics. The Refinement Forum is one of the decision-making bodies for the SCM Department and reports directly into the Group CFO Strategic Transformational multi-year programme.

Performance Management

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders of the Department to drive the development and implementation of the Departmental performance management indices.
• Work closely with the SCM Central Reporting and Analytics Teams to improve the relevant reporting and analytics capabilities to support the Bank in fulfilling any external as well as internal reporting commitments.
• Support SCM COO in driving alignment amongst the SCM Senior Leadership to operationalise agreed strategic priorities for the Department and derive meaningful indices to demonstrate benefits and/or value add.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 the SCM Performance Management team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Key stakeholders

• SCM COO Team
• SCM Management Team
• Reporting and Analytics teams
• Group Finance
• Aspire
• Group COO team

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor/master\xe2\x80\x99s degree
• 5+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience of which experience in Business Planning.
• Possess strong relationship-building skills, with an ability to work effectively with peers and senior stakeholders across multiple regions.
• Agile and comfortable with dealing with complex datasets.
• Effective verbal and written presentation and exceptional communication skills.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter and resilient.
• Strong cognitive ability to design meaningful dashboards to drive key management decisions.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Process Design
• Operational Requirement Analysis
• Data Governance
• Organisational Governance
• Internal Controls
• Product Design and Development

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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