Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Ensures that plans established for programme are maintained / tracked to ensure the programme is managed in a manner that maximises probability of delivery of the programme objectives.

Supports the successful delivery of programme through effective facilitation, tracking and reporting.

Co-ordinates and administers the support that is required for the various governance forums that are required.

Strategy

• Maintains the Programme Management Plan (PMP)
• Ensures that the minimum artefacts required by the Programme / Initiatives are collated and maintained in a common document repository
• Assist the Programme Manager to best manage the frameworks which will ensure successful planning and delivery - aligned to nWOW, QPRs and Refinement Forum
• Co-ordinates various teams on Refinement Forum packs

Business

• Administers the submission, review and approval process for investment requests submitted to the Refinement Forum (RF). Takes meeting notes for the RF
• Works closely with the Programme Manager on Refinement Forum packs updates
• Work with the Programme Manager and Programme Finance teams to effectively manage the financials for the programme. Also, support for QPR/MPR whenever needed.

Processes

• Manages and tracks all the documentation requirements as per SCB ECM/SDF requirements. Ensures the documents have proper signoff and loaded at appropriate folders in SP, PDR.
• Prepares and circulates the monthly RF packs
• Develops the programme resourcing plan and ensures this is refreshed on a monthly basis.
• Coordinates, escalates and reports on Programme key risks and issues, tracks and follows up with responsible parties to update and close them out before Refinement Forum

People and Talent

• Assist the Programme Manager with managing the delivery of and providing direction within a Programme, working closely with the relevant business leads and stakeholders on a daily basis
• Collates and develops templates required by the Programme and cascades them to all Workstream Leads and Project Managers.
• Ensures baselined milestones for delivery of the Programme objectives are tracked to completion. Ensures any revision or new changes to the baselined plan is managed via the Change Review Board

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's 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.

Key Stakeholders

• HR Programme Manager, Project Managers, Product Owner, Design Lead & Vendor teams
• Key Functional Partners: ITO, Finance, Compliance, Legal and Risk

Other Responsibilities

• A 'can do' attitude committed to doing 'what it takes' to deliver
• 'Agile'. Whilst not being the subject matter expert, having the ability to learn quickly, listen, synthesize the issues and articulate clearly for senior management with recommendations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; PowerPoint, written & oral
• Strong stakeholder influencing skills
• Ability to create effective work relationships across functions & borders
• Focused, organised and results-oriented
• Possesses good analytical / critical thinking skills
• Meeting Group standards and familiarity with Project Management/nWoW standards, PED/QPR/MPR process, RAID reporting, Project lifecycle and related documents and phase gates
• Experience of Microsoft Project and Clarity/Plan View tools.

Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of PM/PMO experience within a large international, dynamic organisation
• A proven track record of supporting successful projects delivery as PM/PMO
• Experience working within Financial Services and/or HR preferable
• Familiar with agile methodologies, new ways of working
• Good hands on usage of various tools Clarity/PlanView/JIRA/Confluence
• Experience in Financials Management & tracking
• High levels of personal accountability and proactive initiative taking
• Ability to prepare high-quality presentations/refinement forum packs
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and ability to adapt to different styles according to target audience
• Ability to prioritise and have good time management, as well as having very close attention to detail

Role Specific Competencies

• Project Management and/ or Agile experience/ certification
• Use of planning tools e.g. Clarity PPM, Jira, Confluence, Trello
• Stakeholder Management
• Financials Management & Tracking

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 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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