Job Summary

•    An experienced ESG and TPRM professional responsible for embedding ESG Risk practices into Bank’s supply chain governance framework. The role leads ESG due diligence initiatives, Supplier Charter governance, and supports implementation of sustainability-related regulations such as EUCSDDD.

•    The incumbent acts as the SME for Modern Slavery, Human Rights, Environmental (Physical Climate Risks), and greenwashing risks, leading supplier audits, training, remediation programs, and ESG disclosures. The role also drives ESG Risk capacity-building across internal teams and suppliers, while providing regular ESG updates to senior management and regulatory governance forums under the SMR and Risk committees. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Drive the ESG Risk strategic roadmap within Supply Chain Management (SCM), ensuring alignment with the Bank’s sustainability and risk objectives.
•    Support implementation of key ESG regulatory initiatives, including the EU CSDDD, CSRD, and Modern Slavery Acts (UK and Australia). 
•    Collaborate with Group Sustainability, Compliance, and Risk teams to align supplier ESG risk management with Group-level sustainability priorities.
•    Provide regular ESG risk and performance updates to senior management through SMR decks, GTPRMC, and GRRRC forums.
•    Contribute to Group ESG disclosure processes, sustainability reports, and external assessments to ensure accuracy and regulatory alignment.

Business 
•    Act as Owner of the Supplier Charter, ensuring factual accuracy, measurability, and alignment with regulatory and business expectations.
•    Support ESG-related policy requirements, embedding sustainability and human rights considerations into SCM procedures.
•    Serve as SME for ESG-related due diligence in supplier selection and monitoring processes.
•    Implement best practices in Third Party Risk Management process, as part of the defined programme plan 
•    Responsible for designing questionnaire, processes for CSDDD
•    Act as a bridge with senior leadership and key stakeholders to provide updates on progress, challenges, and successes, ensuring that transformation efforts are on track and delivering expected outcomes

Processes
•    Provide SME input into TPRM Simplification design, embedding ESG and human rights factors into new risk methodologies.
•    Lead and execute Modern Slavery audits, including offline and on-site reviews across multiple supplier geographies.
•    Conduct Modern Slavery remediation and assist suppliers in developing Human Rights and Modern Slavery policies.
•    Support integration of geo-location data and climate risk assessment enhancements into the SCBuy system.
•    Responsible for designing questionnaire, processes for CSDDD

•    Pilot and operationalise external ESG data sources for risk analytics and supplier due diligence.
•    Monitor and mitigate greenwashing risks in ESG communications and sustainability reporting.
•    Draft the Supply Chain Management section of the Modern Slavery Statements (UK and Australia).
•    Support test and use of external data sources from identification, piloting to embedment

People & Talent 
•    Design and implement the ESG Risk Training Program, including development of digital learning cards on Modern Slavery, Greenwashing, and Sustainability.
•    Conduct internal ESG awareness sessions for Procurement teams to strengthen ESG capability.
•    Deliver supplier engagement workshops and training to improve supplier understanding of ESG expectations and practices.
•    Support suppliers in developing tailored Human Rights and ESG policies based on identified gaps during audits or assessments.
•    Contribute to building a culture of continuous learning and improvement within ESG Risk and SCM functions.
•    Build relationships across business / functions to deliver the programme outcomes against the set milestones
•    Role model the Bank’s Valued Behaviours at all times
•    Drive a culture of data driven decision making within the context of the change across the team

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, and monitor ESG risks across third-party engagements, ensuring alignment with Group Risk frameworks.
•    Implement best practices in ESG due diligence, integrating environmental, human rights, and ethical risk factors into supplier assessments.
•    Support climate-related risk analysis for suppliers through integration of geographic and physical risk parameters.
•    Escalate emerging ESG risks, including greenwashing and non-compliance with Modern Slavery obligations, to senior management.

•    Ensure continuous improvement of ESG risk controls, measurement, and reporting processes across SCM.
•    Ensure that the redesigned TPRM processes complies with all relevant regulatory, risk, and compliance frameworks, including those specific to the banking industry
•    Identify and mitigate risks throughout transformation processes, proactively addressing any barriers to successful implementation
 
Governance 
•    Display exemplary conduct and uphold the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Ensure compliance with all relevant sustainability and regulatory requirements, including CSDDD, CSRD, and Modern Slavery legislation.
•    Represent ESG Risk in internal governance committees such as GTPRMC, GRRRC, and ESG Working Groups.
•    Support development of ESG risk governance documentation, and committee papers.
•    Contribute ESG insights and updates to SMR governance packs and risk reporting materials.
•    Engage and build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders, including IT, finance, risk, compliance, and senior management, to ensure alignment of the transformation with the bank’s broader objectives and regulatory frameworks. 
•    Analyze performance data to identify trends and implement corrective actions as needed to achieve strategic objectives 
 
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
•    ESGR and other relevant 2nd line risk teams
•    CSO
•    Sustainability Disclosures Team
•    Global Head, SCM
•    SCM Management Team
•    RFOs
•    Technology and Operations Team
•    Risk Group teams
•    Strategy & Talent teams (e.g. COO, HR, CIO, CFO)
•    Legal
•    Suppliers, subcontractors, and audit firms
•    ESG data providers and sustainability consultants

Other Responsibilities
•    Support continuous enhancement of ESG risk processes and controls across SCM.
•    Contribute to the integration of ESG metrics into supplier performance management.
•    Maintain alignment of ESG initiatives with Group-level sustainability commitments and regulatory developments.
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Group Operational Risk Team, 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures. 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, Sustainability, Risk, or related field.
•    8–10 years of experience in ESG Risk, TPRM, or Operational Risk within financial services.
•    Deep understanding of sustainability regulations (CSDDD, CSRD, UNGPs, OECD, Modern Slavery Acts).
•    Demonstrated experience in ESG audit execution, supplier engagement, and sustainability disclosure.
•    Proven ability to design and implement ESG training and capacity-building programs.
•    Strong data analytics (Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint) skills.
•    Desirable certifications: GARP SCR, or equivalent.

Skills and Experience

•    ESG Risk Management
•    Modern Slavery & Human Rights Risk
•    Third Party Risk Management
•    Regulatory Environment in Financial Services
•    Process Management
•    Change Management 
•    Greenwashing Risk Assessment
•    Climate & Physical Risk in Supply Chain
•    Manage Vendors

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.