Job ID: 25336
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Transaction Banking
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 8 Apr 2025

JOB SUMMARY

Trade & Working Capital is an integral part of the Bank’s DNA, driving franchise value across Corporate & Investment Banking and Wealth & Retail Banking. 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, driving productivity, optimizing cost efficiencies, facilitating #simplefasterbetter, and living the valued behaviours.
This is a product manager role within Trade products to execute on our Digital Assets agenda. It reports into the Head, Trade Business Development & Strategic Growth and requires commercial-minded individuals with strong trade domain expertise, product knowledge in documentary/ supply chain (open account) trade finance, digital assets, a “can-do” attitude and ability to work independently.
Ability to collaborate and influence global/ regional product heads and other stakeholders such as 2nd line risk partners, operations teams, digital assets team, etc., 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 digital assets initiatives. This role will also be responsible to the group/ regional product managers for the end-to-end execution and commercialization of digital assets 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 digital assets initiatives they lead

QUALIFICATIONS

• Academic or Professional Education/ Qualifications: As per Bank’s requirements and HR policy
• Strong Project Management experience, with PMP, ACP or related project management certifications a plus
• Good understanding of Digital Assets industry trends, and experience in executing Trade Digital Assets product development and initiatives, from ideation to commercialization
• Excellent time management and organizational skills; the ability to manage conflicting priorities and multi-task effectively; and communicate current status and tasks to management.
• Proven ability to prioritise issues within a large, rapidly changing environment and manage a wide variety/ high volume of tasks while maintaining quality delivery.
• Understands the operational environment, processes and controls needed to execute requirements. Handles sensitive matters with discretion and confidentiality.
• A results-driven professional. Takes ownership to deliver, with a high level of flexibility and a preparedness to ‘roll up his/ her sleeves’ to get the job done. Proven success in holding individuals accountable for progress against agreed deliverables.
• A proven ability to work independently, solve problems and make balanced judgments / decisions
• Demonstrates ability to work with limited direction and multi-task without loss of quality
• Confident and courageous to raise/ escalate issues in a pro-active, professional, and timely manner
• Demonstrates understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values
• Willingness to Travel as required

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

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Digital Assets
Product Management
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Communications (verbal and written, i.e. PPT)