Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Role Description:

• Own end-to-end delivery of key Mortgage initiatives with a focus on Product Innovation, Digital Journeys and Pricing Optimization, with the aim to ensure delivery of capabilities within budgets/timelines while ensuring the best-in-class client experience.

• Lead new product development, enhancement of existing products/features and product management for mortgages in line with the overall group retail mortgage products & segment strategy.

• Drive product and journey standardization for retail mortgages globally.
• Monetize capabilities and develop analytics to track performance.

Key Responsibilities:
Product Development

• With deep knowledge of agile principles, own the vision of the mortgage squads and hold accountability for defining and delivering on the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) of those squads, including

• Defining end-to-end requirements, making sure they are complete, integral, and consistent

• Building and prioritizing Squad backlog in terms of user stories to achieve business goals; Continuously keeping the backlog up to date

• Managing relationships and synchronizing Technology colleagues with the Hive Lead, Chapter Lead and other Product Owners in cross-squads responsible for related products to align on roadmaps, priorities and dependencies

• Ensure high degree of stakeholder management to enable all requirements and deliverables are correctly understood, planning is up to date, priorities are reaffirmed, and stakeholder expectations are appropriately managed.

Business

• Work with markets for monetization of the capabilities, helping to increase the bank\xe2\x80\x99s customer base and product adoption

• Develop, deploy and track key success metrics, both P&L based and client satisfaction linked

Processes

• Evaluate processes for optimisation of technical stack and automation of back-end processes for end-to-end Straight Through Processes. You will build product as well as prioritise product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectations, prioritisation, and overall product roadmap.

People and Talent

• Proactively provide inputs into squad members evaluation and performance review on a regular basis

• Working with Hive Lead, dynamically allocate resources within the squad based on (i) squad backlogs and (ii) resource needs

• Define the set of necessary competences in the squad with Hive Lead / Chapter Lead, highlighting missing competencies and ensuring fulfilling these in timely manner so as to maintain the Hive work on track.

Risk Management and Governance

• Ensures timely, and quality (error free) submissions, as needed for internal governance forums like QPRs / MPRs

• Ensures that all the applicable and relevant standards and policies are duly met to ensure there are no regulatory / compliance lapses.

• Ensure, where applicable, adequate, and appropriate systems, controls, and compliance within area of responsibility. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting.

• Act as a governance leader promoting the highest levels of ethical conduct. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8 + years experience in Banking or project management.
• Scrum Master (SM) certified and/or PMP (Project Management Professionals)

• Understanding of and delivery under Agile framework

• Strong financial management capabilities: budget tracking, planning, forecast and variance explanations

• Good interpersonal and communication skills: networking, negotiation and influencing

• Highly rganized, independent and self-motivated. Able to influence stakeholders and guide others in delivering change

• Positive attitude with the capability to work under pressure and deliver on multiple deadlines

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Acumen

• Agile way of working

• Digital journeys

• Business Analytics

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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