Product Owner

Job ID: 26859

Location: Ho Chi Minh, VN

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 25 Apr 2025

**Job Summary**
- If tackling complex challenges excites you, then join our team where you will get to collaborate and work on solutions across business and functions, to drive transformation and deliver better experiences to our customers. We constantly strive to reduce time-to-market and streamline our processes. We follow agile methodology and work to embed continuous improvement across the bank.- We are looking for a Product Owner (PO), who will be an empowered decision maker, responsible for maximizing the business value of the work of the Squad. The PO will own and manage product backlog and is ultimately accountable for the successful delivery of the SME Partnership Journey in Vietnam.- Develop a roadmap for digitising the end-to-end credit origination, monitoring and fulfilment journey for SME clients, with inputs from SME leadership team
- Drive implementation of digital transformation initiatives for SME Vietnam
- Define, drive and track relevant success metrics
- Design and implement a change management strategy
- Develops and owns the vision of the squad and holds accountability for delivering on Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)- Help to develop target state for SME Vietnam Partnership Journey and benchmark digital capabilities with industry best practices / tools, identify key trends and incorporate into SME digital roadmap**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsible for creating, sizing and prioritizing user stories for the squad to deliver on daily basis- Defines product requirements and makes sure they are complete, integral and consistent- Contributes to squad product development to the extent of her or his competence- Define squad objectives and scope, taking into account resource constraints and long-term vision- Manages relationships and synchronizes it with the Hive Lead, Chapter Lead and other Product Owners in Squads responsible for related products to align on roadmaps, priorities and dependencies- Identifies, assesses, monitors, controls and mitigates risks to the project(s); effectively and collaboratively resolving them- Accountable for Project Financials, including, however not limited to, cost management and spend forecasting, monitoring of OKR’s and performance indicators- Ensure country SME teams are suitably engaged throughout the change delivery life-cycle- Work with vendors, Professional services consultant, and cross functional teams to design and implement capabilities- Validate deliveries through success metrics, after deployment to ensure they meet all operational and business requirements and drive maintenance and problem resolution, as required**Skills and Experience**
- 10+ years’ experience in SME Banking with a sound knowledge of Digital Transformation or Customer Journeys
- 3+ years in Agile on a similar role, strong skills of maintaining and prioritizing a backlog
- Strong communication skills to synchronize tasks, clarify requirements and delivery expectations with stakeholders
- Ability to present updates to senior management on progress, key risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and constraints, seeks their support to remove roadblocks
- Understanding of industry trends and client needs, ability to create a value proposition and a squad vision
- Demonstrated track record of delivering objectives
- Previously defined product requirements and development
- Relevant agile certification is a plus
- Strong prioritization and analytical skills to manage backlog
- Local language and English language fluency

**Qualifications**
- NA**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**

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