Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES
The Head of Project Management Office (PMO) oversees project delivery; and ensures the adherence to the standards and policies throughout each project phases / MVPs development and execution.
As the PMO Head, the candidate should have a demonstrated good experience in project management principles or equivalent. The candidate should also have solid experience in:

• Leading project management office functions
• Plan and drive discussions at program level to tackle day to day program level issues
• Collaborating with project delivery squad and business leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
• Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
• Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation.
• Providing financial reports and budget outlines to stakeholders.
• Overseeing the development of the project and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.
• Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines.
• At least 8-10 years of relevant project implementation experience

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure the program adheres to the standards and policies
• Ensure ceremonies are performed as per design at the required frequency
• Ensure all artefacts are kept for key ceremonies / discussions of each squad and forum
• Monitor the Technical Quality checklist for the program
• Prepare, maintain and track the Business Quality checklist for the program
• Plan and drive program level initiatives that span across squads for necessary coordination and leadership
• Overall in charge on the communication related to the program
• Overall in charge of tracking the finance of the program and ensure all financial forecast and reporting are performed on time
• Provide program update regularly in different forums and for internal and external stakeholders

Excellent communication and influencing skills

• Resilient personality to deal with pressure
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well as part of a team, establish and maintain effective networks and liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and in an environment where priorities are subject to change
• Capable of engaging key stakeholders and building alliances through active conversations including peer or more senior stakeholders who have no direct reporting relationships
• Team players, welcomes different opinions
• Assertive with logical reasoning

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.

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Good understanding of project administration activities

QUALIFICATIONS

• Training, licenses, memberships and certifications
• The candidate should have 10-15 years solid experience leading projects and managing project finance and quality assurance activities. The candidate should also have experience driving program level initiatives including process and risk governance.

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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