GPB - IWS Proposition & Strategy Senior Manager

Your responsibilities

• Assist and support the embedding of the nascent IWS COO team and book of work.

• Play key role in the IWS COO team to oversee, co-ordinate and deliver strategy implementation, project management, change, risk and control, regulations and governance in IWS.

• Standardise often misaligned processes across GPB&W Booking Centres and markets to achieve global consistency across IWS and GPB&W.

• Respond promptly and diligently to issues as they arise, some urgent.

• Break down silos and help to drive greater collaboration across regional business management teams.

• Interact with senior management confidently on a variety of topics.

• Diligent prioritise of workload while maintaining a high quality of delivery in often challenging circumstances.

• Analyse of complex problems (both global & local); generate insight, and feasible / creative recommendations, through engagement with key stakeholders, considering all aspects and consequences.

• Act as a conduit across initiatives, with an understanding of the GPB&W strategy, strengths, weaknesses and the external marketplace, to inform business decisions and create competitive advantage.

• Document findings: to support engagement with our delivery partners; and provide clear problems, options and recommendations; to enable Snr Mgt understanding and decision making.

• Take ownership of Proposition delivery lead roles in major projects and change initiatives, in line with IWS objectives, and/or act as delegate to Delivery Leads colleagues within the Proposition & Strategy team, on the major change initiatives of IWS.

• Support the co-ordination of efforts across the team, helping prioritise tasks to those with most meaningful impact.

• Work in partnership with IWS functions such as Product Development & Governance, Global Products, Advisory, Managed Solutions, IWS Global Head Business Manager, Chief Control Office, Transformation, Finance, etc. as appropriate with regard to delivering growth, strategic and operational initiatives.

• Collaborate with other GPB&W Booking Centres and markets in delivering growth initiatives as relevant to make sure there is global consistency and synergy.

• Design and own the Pricing Growth plan and execute in partnership with internal and external stakeholders across Global and Local.

• Own engagement and management of consultants brought in to support pricing initiatives.

• Measure and monitor the impact of the pricing initiatives to track progress and inform future effort.

• Work with Regulatory Compliance to ensure initiatives meet regulatory requirements Private Bank & Wealth products and services are distributed to clients in compliance with laws and regulations.

• Input into governance fora on strategic and operational initiatives, including writing and presenting papers and providing both written and verbal updates.

Our requirements

What we offer

Additional information

The Proposition & Strategy team, within the Investments and Wealth Solutions COO, plays a critical role in supporting the Head of IWS, and the Head of IWS COO, in shaping and delivering the strategic aims of the function.

- The team focuses on the design of a coherent IWS proposition across all IWS business lines, aligned to the GPB&W strategy; and will execute on the design through direct engagement in the Bank’s major growth and change initiatives.

- The team is also responsible for embedding the IWS proposition, partnering with Marketing, Communications and Learning & Development, for the benefit of our colleagues and clients.

- Aa a Senior Manager within the team the candidate will be fundamental in supporting all aspects of the team's scope – informing the development of products, services and capabilities in GPB&W, and ensuring they align to our value proposition and strategy – driving improved client experience and commercial outcomes.