Team Lead, Business Planning Manager (CIB Coverage)

Job Summary

This role supports the Coverage Team by driving governance, business performance, and execution of key initiatives including business reviews, client portfolio management, people strategy, communication, and project delivery. The Team Lead works closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with cluster goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the implementation of country Corporate Investment Banking (CIB) client segment strategies and ensuring alignment of country with Cluster & Group.
• Work with the CEOs & Coverage Heads, in the Middle East & Pakistan, to co-define a go-to-market strategy and execution plan.
• Organise and lead yearly or ad hoc strategy days to ensure close communication and alignment between Coverage, products, and functional teams.
• Lead the preparation of the annual Corporate Plan for the business section.
• Review periodically the delivery of agreed business performance and cost targets to budget including metrics which are material and relevant for the Coverage scorecard.
• Identify risks and opportunities to delivering the targeted business performance and propose remediation plans and actions.
• Lead preparation for business reviews, as well other regular updates.
• Manage Coverage cost budgets and cost centres in close coordination and with the support from HR and Finance.
• Review and track frontline productivity using a standardised approach. Identify areas for improvement.

Skills and Experience

• Problem solving skills to co-create client strategy, drive root-cause analysis, analyse business performance, etc.
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision making.
• Strong organisational and project management skills with excellent eye for detail.
• Highly proactive, demonstrating ambition, dedication, and pride in work.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree.
• Detailed understanding of the Corporate Investment Banking business and product capabilities, such as sales process, relationship management, risk, product sales etc.
• Willing to challenge the status quo, comfortable interacting with senior management.
• Fluent in English & Arabic.

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.