Manager, TPRM Governance

Job ID: 35882

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Procurement & Supply Chain

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Jul 2025

Job Summary

Strategy

• Establish and implement TPRM governance and oversight processes.
• Support & embed local TPRM regulatory requirements in Country.

Business

• Coordinate and supervise the control assessment activity of Contract Owners in the business.
• Provide oversight of third-party risks, validating and/or escalating, as appropriate, third party risks in alignment with the TPRM framework and the Board-approved risk appetite.
• Ensure the respective contract owners monitor, review and mitigate risks associated with third parties in accordance with the TPRM policy & standards

Processes

• Ensure and assess compliance to TPRM related policies & standards
• Prepare country TPRM pack for country committee with help of country TPRM team
• Review and escalate overdue control assessment, contracts & etc to Business & Function UORM & BORM

Risk Management

• Escalate any issues to Cluster Head & Hub Lead as necessary.
• Contribute to the assessment of overall outsourcing risk and compliance by monitoring key risk indicators and failure trends, and exceptions identified in the due diligence process.
• Support the preparation of documentation for the Third Party Risk Management and Outsourcing related updates to the TPRM Committee and other Risk Committees/ Forums as appropriate.
• Contribute to identification of issues and root cause including oversight/facilitations of third-party risk mitigation actions.

Key Responsibilities

Governance

• Supports the TPRM Cluster Head in providing TPRM oversight in Country
• Maintaining an accurate Outsourcing Register and Global Outsourcing Inventory
• Monitor and track cases of non-compliance with TPRM processes by stakeholders
• Perform monitoring, control, and supervision of outsourcing and non-outsourcing activities.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Work closely with Country TPRM Governance team to ensure consistency in approach and alignment of regional processes.
• Partner with stakeholders (including but not limited to Outsourcing Owners, Contract Managers, Information Security Officers, Supply Chain Management Category Managers, Business Continuity Managers, Risk group etc) to effectively coordinate and execute third party risk management controls.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in ; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).

Skills and Experience

• TPRM Governance Process
• RCSA & ERMF

Qualifications

• EDUCATION Degree or equivalent qualifications
• LANGUAGES English is mandatory.

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.