SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are looking for a product analyst that can help us build a B2B marketplace that will transform how SMEs in the UAE buy, sell and grow. 

This role sits at the intersection of product, strategy and data, supporting the design, validation and scaling of the marketplace. The product analyst will support the team with data driven insights, analytical frameworks and performance data reporting structure across the full product lifecycle. The role will include understanding user behaviour, marketplace dynamics and performance drivers to support and guide product discovery, prioritization and execution.

Strategy
•    Support product and marketplace strategy through data backed insights, opportunity sizing and performance analysis
•    Own market assessments and competitive analysis to guide decision making 
•    Act as a thought partner to the product teams on roadmap sequencing and prioritization
•    Partner with product and engineering to define the data requirements, event tracking and instrumentation

Business
•    Analyse user behaviour across the buyer funnel, seller onboarding, catalogue performance and marketplace liquidity 
•    Translate business questions into structured analytical approaches and actionable recommendations

Processes
•    Define and own product and marketplace KPIs, ensuring consistent tracking and reporting
•    Build and maintain dashboards to monitor performance, growth and efficiency
•    Contribute to a strong data driven culture by sharing insights, best practices and frameworks

People & Talent
•    Work closely with global cross functional teams to ensure robust data infrastructure, monitoring and event instrumentation to support reliable product analytics and decision making

Risk Management
•    Ensure data accuracy and consistency and flagging any data gaps, errors or limitations that could impact product or commercial decisions

Governance
•    Operate in line with SC ventures governance standards 
•    Ensure compliance with internal data, reporting and documentation requirements 

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
•    Internal teams: Engineering, Product, Commercial, compliance and senior management.  
•    External groups: Customers, Suppliers, Partners

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

•    Product Analytics
•    SQL & Data Analysis
•    Dashboarding & BI Tools (looker, tableau, PowerBI)
•    Experimentation and Funnel Analysis
•    Market Analysis
•    Business and Unit Economics Modelling

Education     Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or related gfield     
Languages     English

•    3-5+ years of experience in product analytics, data analytics or consulting roles
•    Prior experience setting up data and reporting structures, including defining the key metrics, building dashboards and identifying the data requirements in partnership with product and engineering  
•    Hands-on experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder and ambiguous environments, with the ability to drive clarity through data and structured analysis
•    Experience in marketplaces, ecommerce or B2B platforms preferred
•    Exposure to SME ecosystems and supply chains is a plus

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

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.