Product Manager, Alternative Investments

**Job Summary**:
**Salary**
S$10,800 - S$18,000 / Monthly

**Job Type**

**Seniority**

Mid

**Years of Experience**
At least 5 years

**Tech Stacks**
Strategy Entity Segment

**Job Summary**

As Product Manager for Alternative Investments, you will provide global support on identifying, onboarding, and monitoring investment products that include Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Private Credit, and Real Assets for the wealth management entity.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Develop pipeline predominantly for the private banking segment, provide preliminary due diligence, work with internal/external stakeholders on product on-boarding and approvals.
- Marketing of new fund launches as well as consistent monitoring of existing products.
- Management of the alternative investment products governance policies.
- Work closely with operations and platform services team globally to ensure alternative investment products are supported adequately
- Support Front Office for client discussions and queries.

**Business**
- Support the Group Managed Investment Product team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.

**Processes**
- Onboarding of new alternative investments products and requirements to obtain all necessary approvals
- On-going monitoring of existing investments to ensure the products meets our selection criteria

**People & Talent**
- Able to work independently, but also be an effective team player
- Driven, and able to demonstrate initiative
- Enjoy problem-solving and able to think out of the box for creative solutions

**Risk Management**
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Governance**
- 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.

**Key stakeholders**
- Global Managed Investment Teams (Both Retail and Private bank), Investment Advisory Teams, CIO Office, Discretionary Portfolio Team, Global Investment Council, Sustainable Investment Team
- Certifications: CAIA or CFA designation is a plus.
- 5 plus years’ experience in banking industry as a Product Manager.
- Knowledge in investments products and financial markets.
- Knowledge in Alternative investments (including private equity & private credit, real assets, and hedge funds).

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Finance/Business or related discipline.
- Product Manager.
- Investments Products
- Financial Markets.
- Alternative Investments - private equity & private credit, real assets, and hedge funds.

**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 hea