Job Description

Job Summary
The Business Planning Manager role supports the CEO Office and Coverage Team with a focus on governance, and business performance.
Key Responsibilities

• In this dynamic position, you will have be collaborating closely with the Chief Executive Officer and the Coverage Head for South Africa, alongside the committed Coverage Team and the broader Cluster.
• Together, we will concentrate on enhancing business performance and achieving exceptional results through activities such as business reviews and sales enablement, managing client portfolios, and shaping our people agenda.
• You will also play a critical role in frontline communication and the execution of our business strategy while overseeing project management tasks.
• As the Business Planning Manager, you will work collaboratively with various teams, including our global Business Development teams, ensuring alignment and collective progress.
• Your responsibilities will be varied, reflecting the evolving demands of our Coverage Business within the country and cluster. This entails a combination of routine tasks, project work, and occasional ad-hoc assignments that provide diversity and engagement.

In supporting the CEO, you will be instrumental in:

• Developing and executing business strategies alongside financial plans that propel us forward, delivering notable financial performance that highlights our strengths, and ensuring adherence to Group policies to mitigate risks, including credit, operational, market, or reputational risks.

For the Coverage team, your contributions will include:

• Assisting in the management and coordination of both operational and strategic objectives, thereby contributing to our overall success in the country, analyzing and presenting insights on our business performance to ensure alignment with our country and cluster initiatives, and preparing compelling presentations that showcase various facets of our Coverage activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of banking experience
• Masters or Bachelors degree
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders
• Focused, organised and results-oriented
• Strong and detailed understanding of the business and product capabilities, such as sales process, relationship management, risk, product sales etc
• Problem solving skill to co-create client strategy, drive root-cause analysis, analyse business performance, etc
• Willing to challenge the status quo, comfortable interacting with senior management
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Strong organisational and project management skills with excellent eye for detail
• Highly proactive, demonstrating ambition, dedication and pride in work
• Ability to create effective work relationships across functions & borders
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking
• Can work independently to strict timeframes; Self-motivated to work with minimum supervision

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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