Head Product Governance

Standard Chartered; Genf; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking a senior professional to drive strategic growth in the Funds business for the Swiss Booking Centre. You will work with the Regional Head of Advisory and MI, oversee Product Governance, and collaborate with RMs and Private Bank IAs to identify competitive product solutions across Mutual Funds, ETFs, Alternatives, and Discretionary Portfolio Management.

You will lead governance for new launches, obtain approvals, maintain documentation, and ensure regulatory

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years professional experience.
• Experience in wealth solutions and product management, including defining and launching value-added products.
• Strong knowledge of wealth products, product governance, regulatory requirements including FINSA and FINMIA.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, organisation and written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated supervisory and organisational skills.
• Degree or professional qualification relevant to finance/investment.
• Investment qualifications.
• Fluent in business English (written & spoken).
• French and/or German are optional.

Responsibilities

• Drive Wealth Solutions strategy with Swiss Booking Centre leadership and RMs/IAs.
• Oversee Product Governance including country addenda and approvals for new launches.
• Develop and launch Global Products to Private Banking clients in Switzerland.
• Coordinate product approvals, country addenda, processes and training for launches.
• Maintain country addenda for existing products and ensure timely approvals.
• Update MI product documentation and maintain trackers.
• Manage client communications from Wealth Solutions Switzerland.
• Monitor regulatory changes and ensure governance around product changes.
• Ensure Switzerland product lists and information are up to date.

Skills

Wealth solutions

Product management

Product governance

Regulatory knowledge

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Organisation

Communication (written and verbal)

Leadership / Supervisory

Investment qualifications

Business English

French or German

Education

Academic degree or professional qualification

Investment qualifications

Job description

Job Summary

This role will be responsible for driving the strategic growth in the Funds business for the Swiss Booking Centre, working closely with the Regional Head of Advisory and MI. The role will also be responsible for overseeing the Product Governance function in the Swiss Booking Centre and will work closely with Relationship Managers (RMs) and Private Bank Investment Advisors (IAs) to identify competitive and compliant product solutions to enhance client outcomes and support the Bank’s long-term wealth strategy. Products include Mutual Funds, ETFs, Alternative Funds and Discretionary Portfolio Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Product development and launch including: gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, working closely with operations, sales, marketing, finance, Legal and Compliance to develop product and relevant processes for launch purposes and also to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
• Product Governance including: Country Addendum maintenance and ensuring correct governance structure and approval around new product launches.
• Work closely with the Switzerland CEO, the Regional Head of Advisory and MI and Relationship Managers to drive Wealth Solutions strategy.
• Develop and launch Global Products to Private Banking clients in the Swiss Booking Centre as prioritised by the Group and Regional Wealth Solutions management teams.
• For new product launches, obtain all appropriate product and country approvals, country addendums, operational process flows, booking processes, sales and process training, and documentation.
• Maintain and renew all appropriate Country Addendums for existing products within expiry dates, and obtain relevant approvals.
• Maintain and update all MI product-owned client-facing documentation. Obtain all required approvals and maintain the documentation tracker.
• Maintain all MI Product-owned Front Office DOIs, Process Notes and Internal Forms.
• Manage and prepare email communications from Wealth Solutions Switzerland.
• Manage change: attend working or project groups where a change will impact the Product, for example system, financial, legal or regulatory change.
• Ensure all Advice Centres have fully up-to-date Switzerland product lists and information.
• Be fully conversant with, and demonstrate understanding of, all regulatory requirements and associated processes related to the products.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in wealth solutions and product management, including defining and successfully launching value-added products.
• Strong knowledge of all aspects of wealth products, product governance, operational processes and Swiss regulatory requirements, including FINSA and FINMIA.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, organisation and written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently to deadlines.
• Demonstrated supervisory and organisational skills.
• Relevant academic degree or professional qualification.
• Investment qualifications.
• Fluent in business English, written and spoken.
• French and/or German optional.

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 the full potential.