(Ml) Trade Product Owner

**Job Summary**:
**Salary**
S$14,000 - S$19,000 / Monthly

**Job Type**

**Seniority**

Senior

**Years of Experience**
At least 10 years

**Tech Stacks**
Analytics Sprint

**JOB SUMMARY**
- TradeXpress is a strategic and transformational re-platforming program for Trade finance which globally covers all Documentary and Open Account Trade Products along with Risk Distribution.
- As a member of the Trade Product Development team, the Product Owner is responsible for understanding business needs, articulating requirements, developing and sequencing user stories and defects and working with the agile teams to ensure creation of technology products that will help our clients be successful. The Product Owner also plays a key role in collaborating with Product Managers and other stakeholders in identifying concepts such as Minimum Viable Product (MVP), training and documentation requirements, assisting in Beta and usability testing, and user acceptance testing. This position is involved in every stage of bringing new products and features to market on time. The role would involve working with other Product owners leading different streams of the program

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Documents, prioritizes, and owns Epics, User Stories and Defects.
- Assists the Chief Product Manager with developing the product road-map and vision.
- Assists in the development of the business plans and product requirements for new products and product-based programs
- Supports Product Managers in the rollout and client adoption of new features and products through the following: demonstrations and product expertise, training, development of marketing collateral and messaging, and other associated tasks
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Ensures that the agile Team has clarity on the problem and business value of the solution.
- Validates business processes against the requirements of the business, compliance, and existing system functionality
- Collaborates with all stakeholders (internal and external) to ensure product issues are understood, documented and prioritized appropriately
- Participate in Sprint Planning
- Manages development and delivery against a feature backlog
- Serves as a member of and resource for the development team ensuring that they receive information they need and get adequate feedback on their work
- Participates in, and supports, all software development life-cycle activities, including development, testing, implementation and rollout
- Define and manage backlog, prioritising feature releases in line with the broader roadmap including the S2B NG client journey.
- Be the voice of the customer in the definition of propositions and collaborate with other product owners to converge on a broader coherent proposition.
- Provide insights into product, technology and market trends, pre-empting imminent disruptions and identifying opportunities for acceleration.
- Work with UX and Service Design to gain an understanding of user personas, pain points and journeys
- Gather and manage product feedback through surveys, concept testing, analytics tools, and A/B testing

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**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 the [TradeXpress LuW team] 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**
- Country / Regional Head of Transaction Banking
- Country / Regional Head of Trade
- Trade Product Management team
- Trade Technology team
- Trade GBS/Operations team
- Trade Straight2Bank NG team (Customer Channel)
- Trade Product Development team
- 10+ years of work experience in Trade finance products and processes with very good understanding of macro business environment, trends, and competition.
- Experience in large scale transformations/ change management projects preferred.
- Must have previous experience as a Product Owner or Business Lead for technology projects
- Should be able to translate client needs and transition objectives into actionable and process.
- Understanding of the overall digitization tools and technology landscape, current trends and applicability in the business environment
- Ability to co-relate technology to transition, thereby possessing the ability to sell the concept to internal stakeholders
- Ability to respond effectively to change, managing work in a fast-paced matrix environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive lasting relationships, even in difficult situations, with diverse people spanning internal/external