Director, AI Programme( Philippines, Singapore)

This role could be based in Philippines and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based

• Review, control and report on financial status of the individual workstream and overall programme as per the bank's standards and workstream governance
• Support and coordinate performance/benefits reporting, budgeting and forecast processes
• Prepare status reporting as required for stakeholder requirements, and programme office, including the various Agile ceremonies such as refinement forum, and other engagements as required
• Implement governance standards across the programme, including tracking, monitoring and updating the programme metrices
• Ensure that Clarity is up to date including key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and resource forecasts, and that they are tracked and reported to the appropriate governance bodies
• Ensure that all submissions to committees and working groups are of the right quality and are timely
• Implementing programme closure procedure

Strategy

•    Delivering, building and maintaining the Data Driven solutions that are core to Group Operations strategy.

Business

•    Provide thought leadership in data science techniques and business applications to unlock the value of SCB's data sets and external information.

•    Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.

•    Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects.

Processes

•    Explore leading methodologies and best practices and importing successful methodologies from international markets.

Risk Management

•    Prepare, manage, and maintain, and track quality of key programme management artefacts such as epics on JIRA, risks and issues, dependency mapping, budget and forecast, programme plan and initiative plans

Governance

•    Support and ensure the implementation of programme delivery is in line with the Bank's control and governance framework 

•    Ensure all project deliverables, artefacts and approvals are stored in a structured format for future recovery and audit

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.

•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

•    Serve as a Director of the Board 

•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association or equivalent

Key stakeholders

•    Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Other Responsibilities

•    Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

•    Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.

Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation

•    Delivery experience in technology or business programmes 

•    Strong change management principles / enterprise 

•    Programme management discipline, understanding of agile principles 

•    Stakeholder management skills, Strong Communications

Education    Certification in PMP / certified scrum master / certified product owner is a plus

Languages     Business Communication

•    A minimum of 5 years of PMO experience in large and complex, multi geography, multi disciplinary projects

•    Experience in agile methodologies

•    Certification in PMP / certified scrum master / certified product owner is a plus

•    Strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility in accomplishing the organisation's goal

•    Ability to excel in a quick-paced environment, multi task & deliver to tight deadlines

•    Excellent organizational skills 

•    Excellent communication skills oral, written and presentation

•    Strong knowledge of Clarity and  NWOW standards

•    Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

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

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 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.