Products Initiatives Lead, Trade Initiatives

**Job Summary**
- Trade & Working Capital is an integral part of the Bank’s DNA. As a network-driven Trade bank, we support vast international trading networks across a large range of commodities, markets, and specialisms - helping millions of people, clients and businesses achieve their financial aspirations. Our uniqueness is our distinctive network that stretches across core emerging markets with onshore Trade solutions in 42 markets across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and beyond.

Trade & Working Capital, within Transaction Banking, is grounded in the Bank’s strategic priorities through delivering customer value, innovation, driving productivity, optimizing cost efficiencies, facilitating #simplefasterbetter, and living the valued behaviours.- To get things done faster to support this growth, a core team of product managers serving as Product Initiatives Leads for Trade will, on a rolling basis, drive selected high-impact and high-visibility group or regional initiative(s) under Trade’s core priorities and strategies that will help move the needle in reaching our goals.- This role reports into the Head of Trade Initiatives & Business Enablement and requires commercial-minded individuals with strong trade domain expertise in documentary/ open account trade finance, a ‘can-do’ attitude and ability to work independently. Ability to collaborate with Global/ Regional product heads and other stakeholders such as RFOs and operations teams will be key to delivering on this role. Key objectives will entail establishing strategy, business cases and execution plans as well as actual execution of agreed initiatives. Product Initiative leads will be responsible to the Group/ Regional product managers for the end-to-end execution and commercialization of initiative(s) they lead.- We are looking for individuals who can operate in new (often ambiguous) areas, can provide critical thinking, problem solving and drive execution of the product initiatives they lead.**Key Responsibilities**

**Business**
- Work closely with global and/ or regional product heads as product initiatives leads to establish a strategy, business case, project plan and execute the agreed scope of initiatives
- Drive innovation (e.g., Digital Assets), ideation and thought leadership and execute on innovation initiatives through to commercialization in alignment with business strategy
- Define detailed scope, success KPIs, system /process/people requirements & work with the lead product manager and frontline teams to deliver commercial outcomes.
- Lead authoring of relevant artefacts such as requirements/scope, impacted PPGs, end-to-end product & process flows, interface requirements, risk impacts, and clearly articulate these flows and processes to the relevant business and technology teams
- Engage and work with relevant 1st line and 2nd line stakeholders to define, seek approvals and deliver, product/process changes for the initiatives they lead.
- Work with Technology & POs to track progress for relevant system changes linked to initiatives they lead.

**People & Talent**
- Champion and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture. Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Sets appropriate tone and expectations for their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
- Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement, ensuring everyone in the Bank are drivers and owners of client outcomes.
- Set effective metrics and standards, transparently communicating them to team members, providing feedback and rewarding employees accordingly. Set the appropriate tone and expectations for the wider team.
- Ensure team structure/capacity is reviewed to enable delivery of client outcomes.
- Create a motivational and challenging environment for team members which is conducive to creativity and performance with customer centricity in mind.
- Provide feedback on team members to their people leaders, as part of performance reviews

**Risk Management**
- Under Trade Process Universe mappings end-to-end and impact of these initiative led changes to the Trade PU.
- Work with risk teams to seek approvals for any risk related items such as product/TB risk, legal, OR/GRAM risk assessments etc., for said changed driven by the product initiatives they lead.

**Skills and Experience**

**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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matt