Director, Product Lifecycle Methodology

Job ID: 38229

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 15 Sept 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- Work together with the Product Lifecycle Methodology Lead for the preparation and roll out phase of a robust Product Lifecycle Methodology across the Cash Management Organisation at group, region and country level. This methodology is strategically vital for ensuring Product Managers are empowered with the clarity, collaboration, and capabilities needed to create value and drive impactful and measurable outcomes alongside a broad and diverse stakeholder community.- **RESPONSIBILITIES**
**Strategy**
- Collaborate with senior leaders across the bank to secure buy-in for the methodology across their functions.
- Drive planning and execution of the preparatory and roll out phase of the product lifecycle methodology (PLC).
- Determine and build the variety of cross functional partnerships needed to successfully embed the PLC.
- Put in place a digital first approach to ensure process and documentation are digitally available to relevant parties during the lifecycle.
- Manage the Consulting Partner relationship and deliverables.
- Advocate the development of new technologies and tools for the full spectrum of product groups and products.

**Business**
- Define clear measures of success that can demonstrate progress at each stage of the PLC.
- Establish a PLC that creates an enhanced commercial focus in the product management teams.
- Work with the Group Product Heads to establish a set of KPIs and OKRs that the product managers can consistently drive based on their respective work items.
- Drive greater commercial returns through better product and product manager performance management as well as Higher levels of ownership and accountability
- Improved product profitability
- Optimised pricing, marketing and distribution
- Improved product-market fit
- Accelerated speed to market creating longer windows to draw advantage from
- Early signalling of strategic intent to the market

**Processes**
- Establish clear standards to ensure quality deliverables across the lifecycle.
- Influence diverse stakeholders, overcome resistance to new processes, and effectively institutionalize these new methodologies.
- Manage Project budget and timelines as agreed.
- Implement ongoing checks and balances to measure performance as per the PLC methodology.
- Gain operational efficiencies and leverage through developing a skills-based organization.
- Accelerated speed-to-market with standard methodology
- Reduced time for approvals and gathering documentation
- Standardised product sets and reduction of underperforming and unprofitable product instances
- Reduced duplication in product development resource allocation
- Consistent service quality with alignment across channels, systems, processes and standard
- Improved cross functional alignment/collaboration across the business
- Excellent post-launch commercialisation readiness
- Post-launch operational and servicing readiness

**People & Talent**
- Lead through collaboration, influence, to drive.
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
- Set appropriate tone and expectations amongst colleagues and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
- Ensure active communication of vision, priorities, and progress to the business to foster engagement, awareness and motivation.

**Risk Management**
- Ensure the PLC has the required Risk and Awareness elements well embedded into the processes.

**Governance**
- Ensure the PLC meets all the prescribed Governance standards that the bank has established.
- Reduce internal controls (automated, preventative controls/ centralised data) and in product development rework or remediation
- Streamlining and simplifying approvals to manage risk more effectively
- Improved management visibility of portfolio, including active management and retirement of underperforming products
- Stronger risk mitigation and regulatory compliance aligned to product complexity
- Early identification of risk (commercial, operational, customer, regulatory)
- Improved audit readiness through standardised documentation and traceability
- Early PLC engagement with risk and governance functions/colleagues

**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.
- Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**

**External**
- Consulting