Job Summary

It is an exciting time to be joining the Talent team at Standard Chartered. Over the last few years we have been investing in strengthening the way we identify, develop and deploy our talent across the Bank. With a range of products and solutions now available our ambition is to amplify the impact of the career offer for all colleagues, showcasing how we live and breath our employee value proposition promise to ‘invest in your growth and wellbeing.

We are increasingly focused on how we deliver a differentiated experience for colleagues in key talent segments, developing and deploying skills where they are needed most. In this role you will play a key part in achieving this for our executive talent segment. Working collaboratively with a wide variety of stakeholders you will be responsible for strengthening the way we do talent management for our executive population, delivering real impact now whilst building a strong pipeline of leaders for the future. 

To be successful you will draw upon key skills where you build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with other and can execute effectively even when the way forward is not clear. You will bring a mindset of seeing ahead to future possibilities and be able to translate these into meaningful actions that enable business performance.

Critical to this role is the ability to communicate clearly, succinctly and with gravitas to a wide range of senior stakeholders. A background of technical skills in talent and succession management including experience in leveraging assessment solutions to support talent development initiatives is preferred. 

You will have experience working in global, matrix (and ideally regulated) organisations and through this role will have the opportunity to interact with a range of senior stakeholders, influencing and shaping how we manage our executive talent population. 

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to influence, shape, and deliver cross functional talent management priorities that drive value across the firm, with specific emphasis on growing the Banks ability to leverage data and insight to inform talent decisions
• Provide strategic advisory, subject matter expertise and consulting capability to support the delivery of the firms executive talent management objectives and key results 
• Partner with relevant HR stakeholders to drive consistency and impact of executive talent management practises, processes and key messages across the firm 
• Leverage workforce data and insight to demonstrate impact, effectiveness and influence people and talent related decisions across the firm Proactively form credible relationships and drive impact of the talent function through availability of data that influences decision making across the enterprise
• Set the firm standard and approach for Executive Talent Management, engaging closely with Heads of HR and key partners to deliver a robust approach that manages business needs for today and strengthens our future leadership pipeline 
• Responsible for delivering end to end executive succession management cycle, including enterprise initiatives to support executive successor development
• Manage a portfolio of Talent Assessment products and solutions (including partnerships with third party partners) that are deployed to support to support talent identification and development of executive talent
• Partner with HR stakeholders to curate the experience, manage the engagement and measure the impact of our investments in Executive level talent pools

Skills and Experience

Business Acumen, HR Consulting & Project Management

• Understands the Bank’s business and its activities, including organisational and industry-wide matters, and applies such knowledge to business decisions and activities.
• Executes projects by managing stakeholder engagement, resources, risk, budgets and resolving problems using the waterfall project management methodology. 
• Knowledge of HR approaches, tools and techniques; ability to inform, guide and advise managers in HR-related initiatives    

Industry Knowledge & Workforce Analytics

• Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Knowledge of human resources (HR) and workforce issues and trends; ability to analyze workforce data, information and metrics and apply the results to support business decisions.      

Effective Communications, Change & Brand Management 

• Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Knowledge of and ability to align the organization's people and culture with changes in business strategy, organizational structure, technology and business processes.
• Knowledge of, and ability to use, tools and processes for creating and maintaining a marketing approach to promoting the company or a product line.      

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.