Lead | Right Shoring Enablement| GBS

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Single point of contact for businesses and geographies on GBS footprint
• Work with businesses to understand their strategic locations for growth and chalk out GBS footprint strategy
• Assess opportunities in south east Asian markets and north India and arrive at resilient location strategy for 35,000 staff GBS operations
• Support development and drive execution of GBS Strategy 2025 program
• Lead efforts to build GBS Philippines and GBS Bangladesh entity set up and office set up to business growth in relevant geographies
• Lead efforts to mobilise 15,000+ staff to shift operations from existing Chennai buildings and move into the new Marina facility with no business risks on delivery
• Develop and execute footprint optimization plan for 35,000 staff across all hubs with right balance to seat cost and seat availability
• Ensure SU levels and deliver Footprint optimization benefits across GBS hubs, without productivity issues to service delivery teams
• Accountable for achieving optimization benefits working along with regional property teams and business units
• Serve as thought leader for processes, developing forward-thinking systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels.
• Active contribution to Location strategy initiatives across GBS and group
• Ensure seat supply to the planned and ad-hoc demand (set processes to manage ad-hoc seat demands)
• Recommend controls by identifying problems and writing improved procedures.
• Perform reviews and analyses of current processes and systems using business and operations performance metrics and reports, and proactively suggesting improvements which create sustainable business value.

Scope of the Role:
• Manage Location set ups and optimization for GBS. The cost of this role will be shared across different set up projects (PACMAN, Shapla, Marina etc).
• Support Head, Right shoring enablement and Head of GBS Property to work closely with stakeholders towards project planning and overall project governance, including optimization of existing locations
• Other than above roles, job holder should follow other job duties and responsibilities assigned by line manager from time to time.
• Accountable for implementing and complying with AML requirements when performing duties.
• Please note that the job description above will be reviewed during the Job Objective setting every year, which may be amended and agreed where necessary by the employee and the line manager.

Our Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor degree from a reputable university
• Minimum of 13+ years experience in banking field, with proven track record in leadership role in Project Management of Information Technology projects
• Have experience setting up offfices for similar captive centers
• Have knowledge of structured project management methodologies such as PMI PMBOK and must be experienced in applying project management knowledge, skills, tools, concepts, and techniques.
• In-depth experience in Change, Vendor and Resources management.
• Experience in project planning, process improvement, performance measurement, and managing a project life cycle.
• Have exposure or experience in migrations or supporting migrations teams
• Strong analytical skills, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong influencing skills with strong team orientation.
• Able to handle multi-tasks, manage time effectively and perform under pressure.
• Able to work at flexible hours and travel
• Project Management and/ Agile experience/ certification

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Project Management and/ or Agile experience/ certification
• Use of planning tools Clarity PPM, Jira, Confluence, Trello

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 , together with our brand promise, to be are achieved by how we each live our . 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 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