Director CIB TPRM - Strategy & Change (Malaysia & Poland)

Job ID: 37471

Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 22 Aug 2025

• This role could be based in Malaysia and Poland. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

• We are seeking a seasoned strategy and change professional to join our TPRM team. This is a 1LOD role within the CIB Conduct & Control department, reporting to Head, CIB TPRM, ensuring that we define and implement robust strategies, frameworks, and processes to effectively manage third-party relationships and related risks across our CIB footprints.
• The successful candidate will play a critical role in enhancing CIB TPRM capabilities and operating principles to achieving timely and effective and efficient delivery of a wide range of risk oversight activities. The role will focus on strategy development, planning, process design, and change execution across the full TPRM lifecycle.

• This is a high-impact role within a global financial institution, offering the opportunity to drive strategic improvements in third-party risk oversight. If you are a seasoned strategy and change professional with a strong risk management background, we encourage you to apply.

• Lead the interpretation of changes in Regulations, Policies and Standards with nexus to TPRM and Outsourcing, assess impact to CIB Process and business operations and propose adequate change implementation approaches.
• Own the strategy planning of CIB TPRM Book of Work, managing priorities and balancing team’s capacity with regulatory imperatives and deadlines.
• Lead CIB TPRM strategic initiatives collaborating with stakeholders and managing communication with senior CIB Leadership.
• Continuously work with 2LOD and the business to evaluate and identify TP risk implications of business strategies and programmes, and provide guidance on risk remediation actions
• Lead the standardisation and best practices definition and implementation across CIB by working closely with the TPRM Leads and with Business Continuity and Resilience Leads.

• Collaborate in the design of Group TPRM and Outsourcing processes, and procedures ensuring a frictionless integration in BAU processes and minimising disruptions.
• Support and monitor the rollout and successful adoption of new TPRM and Outsourcing processes and procedures.
• Lead and maintain CIB TPRM Process maps using best in class industry tools.

• Raise awareness on TPRM and provide subject matter expertise to countries and clusters.
• Develop and manage a change portfolio for the various TPRM programs impacting CIB, including regulatory-driven changes, control uplift initiatives, and system enhancements.
• Establish clear governance and reporting mechanisms to monitor execution and flag delays or blockers.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across business, compliance, legal, and OTCR to drive a risk-aware culture.

• Lead through example and build appropriate culture and values, embedding a high level of team engagement with senior and junior stakeholders
• Identify personal ongoing training and development needs for professional and personal growth
• Set and monitor job objectives and ensure job descriptions are maintained
• Act with initiative and in line with the Group’s core values to deliver on the team’s objectives and individual book of work items within agreed timelines and to expected quality.

• Own specific initiatives to drive more effective risk management or compliance with Group Policies and Standards
• Provide oversight on outsourcing and third-party risk management requirements, ensuring alignment with internal standards, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Analyse and summarise consultation papers to outline impact to business and proactively come up with tactical and strategic measures.
• Oversee risk reporting and dashboards to provide senior management with clear visibility on third-party risks and trends.
• Drive continuous improvement in TPRM reporting, leveraging analytics and automation where possible.

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the CIB TPRM Team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

• Supply Chain Management
• Nostro and Network Management
• Transaction Banking, Markets, Coverage, CPM, Global Banking
• CTOO
• CIB Databox
• OTCR
• Internal Audit
• Group Resilience
• Group
• Business and IT Resilience teams
• TTO Risk and Governance
• CIB Conduct and Control

• Do the right thing: Be brave, be the change
• Never Settle: Continuously improve and innovate
• Better together: Build for the long term

• Change initiatives, planning and process design
• Operational risk and governance
• Risk management
• Interpersonal relationships
• Banking products

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university (advanced degree or relevant certifications in risk management preferably).

• 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

• 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.