Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop a project management scope of work and detailed plan to deliver the required solutions.
• Develop project documentation including scope of work, budget, timelines and acceptance criteria.
• Provide regular status reporting to senior management against milestones & budget, including any issues and/or risks identified.
• Engage and drive stakeholders to deliver to the project plan, within scope, on time and to budget.
• Identify, mitigate and communicate key assumptions, issues, risks and dependencies to master projects & relevant control and governance committees.
• Document any identified required changes and communicate the changes to the relevant parties.
• Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure internal process, standards and risk compliance (including security, regulatory and audit requirements) are met.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation.
• Requirements management.
• Stakeholder and communication management.
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Pursue opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Ability to work across multiple projects/ initiatives at the same time.
• Manage the day-to-day running of the Project/Program and execution against the project management plan (PMP).
• Mitigate and resolve risks and issues which may impair project delivery.
• Ensure Clarity is up to date including Project static data, status update including RAG status, key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and resource forecasts are tracked & reported.
• Ensure that all submissions to committees are of the right quality and are timely.
• Deliver the Project\'s products and processes into BAU.
• Implement Project closure procedure.

Key stakeholders

• TS MT
• TS and T&I PMO
• Business Operations

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15 years of experience and proven records in delivering major Infrastructure programs in the Banking industry, including accountability for IT solution delivery
• Stakeholder management experience working with senior level stakeholders to deliver project and provide status updates
• Proven experience with co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
• Strong end to end project management experience with the ability to work on multiple projects under pressure and tight timelines
• Proven skills in coordination, staff management and leadership working with vendors and internal teams including Procurement, Ops and stakeholders
• Rigorous approach to management of project delivery methodology
• Leadership skills to coach, co-ordinate and grow a successful delivery team
• Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community
• Strong technologist, ability to problem solve, think out of the box, self-starter, ability to work under pressure
• Possess infrastructure technology project experience such as network infrastructure knowledge of switching, routing, firewalls, circuits topology, load balancing, etc
• Experiences in delivery infrastructure build and supporting services and application migrations
• Excellent interpersonal skills which lend themselves to team-oriented approach and able to work effectively as part of a team and as an individual
• Ability to strategize clearly, create plans and to resolve critical problems in a high-pressure environment
• Exceptional Microsoft Office (MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project) skills
• Good skills with agile and reporting tool - Kanban, Power BI
• Possess good influencing, stakeholder management, project end to end management and problem solving skills
• Solid project organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking ability to track project delivery status, dependencies and financials
• PMP/Scrum Certification preferable

Role Specific Competencies

• Drive the end to end delivery of major Infrastructure projects and program of work
• Waterfall and agile Project delivery methodology
• Network infrastructure knowledge, including switching, routing, firewalls, circuits topology, load balancing, etc
• Infrastructure builds and services migrations

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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