The Project Manager role within Anti-Crime Analytics is accountable for leading Anti-Crime Technology transformation initiatives
The role works closely with Programme Manager on day-to-day execution to achieve key milestones and intended outcomes, while driving end-to-end delivery across the full project lifecycle. This includes ensuring delivery to agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality standards in line with Group Change Delivery Standards (CDS) and relevant frameworks.
The Project Manager also establishes strong governance and control across planning, financial management, delivery tracking and approvals, and leads complex business and technology change by mobilising stakeholders, managing vendors, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks to protect delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate programme strategy into clear project objectives, success measures and delivery plans, agreeing baseline scope, KPIs and milestones with the Programme Manager.
• Lead project-wide stakeholder engagement and communications, including briefings, updates and readiness activity to support adoption.
• Coordinate delivery across business units, project workstreams and external partners, ensuring alignment, pace, and resolution of cross-team gaps.
• Embed global change delivery standards across markets as applicable, ensuring consistent application of framework parameters and controls.
• Enable performance transparency through delivery metrics and governance packs, using agile measures (e.g., burndown charts) and producing decision-grade documentation (PSC packs, ToR, BRD, project plan, closure reports, change requests, MoMs).
• Manage changes to scope, schedule, costs and benefits, minimising disruption, maximising value, and ensuring stakeholders are informed early and continuously.
• Maintain the project-level RAID log and ensure clear ownership and mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance with Group standards and controls (e.g., CDS, SDLC, Responsible AI, change risk, cloud governance, vendor onboarding), maintaining audit-ready documentation and approvals.
• Own the integrated project plan end-to-end (schedule, budget, scope, risk, resources), enforcing robust change control and delivery discipline.
• Partner the Programme Manager on budget governance, including forecasting, actuals and financial reporting from Clarity for internal project reviews.
• Ensure completeness, accuracy and timely updates of project data across Bank tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Clarity), including remediation to address quality gaps.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 3 years of overall work experience in banking field, with proven track record in Project Management role. 
• Experience with managing Agile and waterfall projects. 
• Be proficient on working with project management tools – Clarity, ADO, Confluence, MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint, excel), MS-Project, MS-Planner, MS-whiteboard, etc.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and oral).
• Be proficient in doing financial forecasting & budgeting.
• Knowledge of Bank’s policies and procedures and key risk areas/risk types such as data quality is a must.
• Education: Master’s Degree.
  
• Certification: PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum.
  
• Fluent English.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project Management.
  
• Planning and Execution.
  
• Risk & Issue Management.
  
• Financial and Commercial Acumen.
  
• Digital Fluency & Programme Tooling.
  

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.
• 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.