The posting
Job Summary
• Provide independent, enterprise-wide oversight of transformation portfolio health, execution risk and delivery outcomes.
• Own and continuously strengthen the Bank’s Change Delivery Standards, execution-risk and portfolio-health frameworks to improve delivery confidence, surface systemic risk early and enable timely intervention.
• Translate programme-level data, risks and dependencies into a cohesive portfolio view that supports executive decisions, regulatory confidence and sustainable delivery discipline.
Enterprise portfolio execution oversight
• Establish a trusted, independent view of portfolio health, execution risk, delivery confidence and material interdependencies across the Bank’s transformation portfolio.
• Aggregate programme-level risks into an enterprise view, identifying systemic themes, cumulative exposure and potential impacts on strategic, financial, regulatory and client outcomes.
• Set clear tolerances and escalation thresholds, ensuring material deviations trigger timely executive attention, corrective action and accountable ownership.
• Act as deputy to the Global Head, Investment Management and Portfolio Delivery on portfolio execution, governance standards and execution risk matters.
Change Delivery Standards and governance
• Own the Change Delivery Standards and drive consistent adoption across businesses, functions and transformation teams.
• Define and maintain common governance structures, controls, protocols and minimum delivery requirements that improve consistency, accountability and auditability.
• Keep the standards relevant, proportionate and actionable by incorporating lessons from delivery performance, regulatory change, audit findings and emerging risks.
• Partner with transformation leaders, Accountable Executives and programme teams to address gaps and strengthen delivery discipline.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio health and execution-risk management
• Own the Execution Risk Dashboard and Portfolio Health Dashboards, ensuring the indicators provide forward-looking insight rather than retrospective reporting.
• Ensure the portfolio remains aligned to Change Delivery Standards and within agreed tolerances for execution risk and portfolio health.
• Challenge weak recovery plans, unclear accountabilities and unsupported delivery assumptions; drive remedial action with Transformation Leads, Accountable Executives and Programme Managers.
• Develop scalable mitigation approaches for high-impact risks and interdependencies, enabling businesses and functions to replan, sequence or intervene before outcomes are compromised.
• Track whether interventions restore delivery confidence and reduce risk, rather than only confirming that actions have been completed.
Executive, Board and regulatory decision support
• Shape the enterprise narrative on portfolio execution risk, explaining the strategic, financial, regulatory, client and delivery implications of material issues.
• Prepare decision-ready reports, presentations and papers for Group Management Team, Board and executive committees, clearly setting out risks, trade-offs, decisions required and recommended actions.
• Coordinate portfolio-execution input to audit and regulatory responses, partnering with second- and third-line teams on requests from external auditors and regulators.
• Provide clear evidence of governance effectiveness, risk ownership, remediation progress and sustained control improvement.
Risk and control leadership
• Build strong awareness of the principal risks affecting the Bank’s transformation and change portfolio.
• Partner with Risk and Financial Crime Risk, Compliance and Conduct Risk and Group Internal Audit to embed risk management principles into portfolio and programme planning.
• Maintain effective procedures and controls in line with Group security, risk and audit requirements.
• Identify, escalate and resolve material risk, conduct and compliance matters promptly and transparently.
People and Talent (for People Leader roles only)
• Set direction and drive high performance by translating strategy into clear priorities, measurable outcomes and individual accountabilities.
• Build deep portfolio execution, governance and risk capability through coaching, development and succession planning for critical roles.
• Ensure the team has the right structure, capacity and skills to provide credible independent oversight and timely intervention.
• Role-model the Bank’s values, constructive challenge, sound judgement and strong risk and conduct standards.
• Create an inclusive and accountable culture that values evidence, transparency and enterprise outcomes over activity.
• Provide evidence-based feedback on transformation leaders to their people leaders as part of performance reviews.
Our Ideal Candidate
Key Experience
• 15+ years experience leading complex programmes or portfolios in financial services, technology or another highly regulated environment.
• Proven track record of establishing enterprise governance, delivery standards, risk aggregation or assurance frameworks that improve delivery confidence and decision quality.
• Experience influencing senior executives, Accountable Executives, transformation leaders and risk partners across multiple businesses, functions and geographies.
• Strong understanding of project and programme lifecycles, portfolio analytics, financial management, risk and control, and both Waterfall and Agile delivery methods.
• Ability to turn complex delivery data into clear executive insight, decisions and actions.
• Hands-on experience with portfolio and delivery tools, including Clarity and ideally Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, exercise independent judgement and escalate difficult issues constructively.
Certifications / Qualifications (only where mandatory)
• No mandatory certification required. Relevant experience in portfolio management, programme delivery, transformation, risk or assurance is more important than a specific qualification.
• Recognised portfolio, programme, project or risk-management qualifications are beneficial.
Languages
• Strong written and spoken Business Communication required.
• Additional languages are beneficial where relevant to global stakeholder coverage, but are not mandatory.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Must-have Skills
• Portfolio Governance
• Portfolio Risk and Assurance
• Change Delivery Standards
Other Skills
• Portfolio Management and Analytics
• Project and Programme Management
• Change Management
• Financial and Commercial Acumen
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.
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