Job Summary

Assist and influence the strategy, roadmap and delivery of our Strategic Audit Risk and Assurance (SARA) platform, solve business problems and create measurable value. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define priorities, drive execution and ensure successful adoption and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
• Assist with the SARA product vision, roadmap and priorities, ensuring delivery of measurable business value
• Lead day-to-day product management, making prioritisation decisions and translating business needs into successful outcomes.
• Align business, audit and technology stakeholders to drive adoption, continuous improvement and delivery against strategic objectives.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and governance, achieving successful delivery, adoption and continuous improvement of the platform.
• Maintain product backlog and priorities, ensuring user outcomes and strategic objectives.

People and Talent
• Coach and mentor Product Owners, Business Analysts and cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Promote best practices in product management, agile delivery and stakeholder engagement across the team
• Champion future ways of working, including AI-enabled product and project management, innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Stakeholders

• Business Leaders & Process Owners of the first, second and third line of defence capabilities for Standard Chartered.
• Technology and Delivery Teams
• End Users & Subject Matter Experts
• Senior Management & Sponsors

Motivations
• Energised by solving complex business problems and turning strategy into tangible outcomes and user value.
• Motivated by influencing stakeholders, driving alignment and making decisions that shape product direction.
• Passionate about developing people, improving ways of working and building high-performing teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years in product management, with experience defining strategy, owning roadmaps, and delivering complex enterprise or digital products.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional teams, and balance competing business priorities.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, Agile ways of working, data, integrations, and product lifecycle management.
• Ability to translate business goals into product outcomes, prioritize investment decisions, and measure value delivered.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Software Product Business Knowledge
• Emerging Technologies
• Software Change Request Management
• IT Governance
• Agile Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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