JOB SUMMARY

The Project Delivery Director is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects and programs, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. This individual will drive excellence in execution, manage cross-functional teams, and maintain stakeholder satisfaction while adhering to scope, timeline, and budget constraints. The role demands expertise in strategic planning, risk mitigation, resource optimization, and fostering collaboration across departments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Responsible for WRB initiative delivery in HK. 
• Managing the Key Projects, ensuring compliance with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid frameworks.
• Monitor progress, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure quality standards
• Establish governance frameworks and best practices for consistency.

Business

• Accountable for driving continuous productivity improvement and testing automation / migration initiatives.
• Accountable for optimising value delivered from our investment in system changes.
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of system initiatives for WRB HK, i.e. from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring till closure.
• Supporting Group to implement system changes locally.

Processes

• Responsible for project management and testing processes.

People & Talent 

• Responsible for maintaining sufficient capacity to deliver business initiatives for WRB HK.
• Accountable for the training of team members to fulfil their delivery roles.
• Responsible for the building bench strength and succession planning.
   

Risk Management

• Accountable for risk identification, assessment and mitigation in system and process changes through active collaboration with BRM, Operational Risk, Compliance, Technology Risk and Country Technology Management.

• Escalate critical issues to executives with actionable solutions.

• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and security standards.

Governance 

• Responsible to comply with the group’s technology change delivery and project management policies. 

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 the [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Asia and Hong Kong WRB Business teams
• Hong Kong WRB & Regulatory Compliance
• Hong Kong & Group Operational Risk
• Country Technology Management, Hong Kong
• Group Technology & Innovation
• Hong Kong & Group COO functions

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in the Keystone project as WRB HK representative to ensure a smooth transition from Hogan to Atlas.

Qualification

• Certified Scrum Master / Product Owner (Preferred)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project & Program Management
• System Testing
   

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.