Unit Trust, Product Manager

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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The Role Responsibilities
Supporting the various product and asset class owners in product launch initiatives, data analysis, presentations, reporting and handling of frontline queries. Establish a good working rapport with other product line owners and the various stakeholders including Sales, Compliance, Legal, Marketing, Operations and Process/Governance teams
Strategy
Develop and Assist in Digital and Trading Platform initiatives

• Assist the product team in establishing sales and system processes
• Develop DIGITAL initiatives focusing on business and system such as online mutual fund platforms
• Providing support to product managers and project managers in existing system enhancement such as case testing

Business
Drive business performance

• To help drive revenue and AUM growth to meet business targets, including new business and strategic initiatives.
• Provide regular and timely product/platform updates where required, including corporate action matters.
• Work closely with cross functional counterparts across products, from governance, process, L&C, operations and technology to ensure for a robust product platform.
• Drive innovation and delivery of new Products and campaign/promotion idea, through system support and testing activities.
• To work with operations to ensure the smooth flow of the trading processes with minimal errors.
• Support the collaboration with various internal Stakeholders (Group/country WMPS, Investment Advisory and Strategy, Asset Allocation teams and Investment Advisors, Wealth Proposition, Marketing) to provide for a high quality product platform.

Governance

• Assist the team to ensure that product governance matters are kept up to date and in accordance to internal and external governance standards and regulatory requirements, including Country Addendum (CAs) for the product line.
• Assist in ensuring that adequate and appropriate processes are in compliance with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those of Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance

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 : Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• County and Group WM Teams
• WM P&P and Proposition Teams
• Wealth Operations & ITO
• Marketing
• Legal & Compliance

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values across Retail Bankin

Our Ideal Candidate

• Experience in Retail or Consumer Banking segment with global markets knowledge.
• Strong Financial & Data analysis skills.
• Able to work independently and engage senior management in the Bank and collaborate across teams to drive business objectives and implement the team's long-term strategy.
• Driven and results-oriented and able to adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Graduate with 3 + years of relevant experience in financial markets and/or products.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Microsoft (Words, powerpoint, excel)
• Bloomberg/Morningstar
• Presentation

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