Category Manager, Financial Services

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Job Summary

• Join our dynamic Financial Services Supply Chain Management (SCM) team as we focus on optimizing Brokerage, Clearing, and Exchange (BCE) fees. This exciting opportunity involves leveraging your subject matter expertise to drive thought leadership and identify optimization opportunities, from initial identification through to execution. You will also play a pivotal role in enhancing our business Management Information systems to improve transparency.
• As part of the Financial Services team, you will collaborate closely with the Global Category Lead to achieve Fit For Growth (FFG) savings targets by the end of 2026. A key aspect of this role will be embedding the Financial Services operating model to ensure sustained operational efficiency and cost discipline of BCE fees beyond the FFG timeframe.
• If you are passionate about financial services and have a proven track record in BCE fee optimization, we invite you to apply and contribute to our mission of achieving long-term cost efficiency and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities Strategy

Business

Processes

People & Talent

Risk Management

Governance

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Key stakeholders

Skills and Experience

Qualifications Education

Experience

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.

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.

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