Job Summary

This role could be based in India and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The role holder is accountable for setting and delivering the people agenda for business facing CIO domains, aligned to the Technology and Operations plan, and the One People Plan. The role holder will drive and enable sustainable business performance, manage people processes and ensuring levels of capabilities and performance are aligned with current and future functional requirements.  

Strategic Advisory
•    Develop, review, and implement an effective Strategic People agenda for CIO domains  that is aligned to the long-term business aspirations of the Group
•    Continuously review the relevant operating models to align these with the overall functional and business strategy, using all available data to assess effectiveness, demonstrating proactivity in surfacing, and securing resolution to points of misalignment
•    Support change programmes that are required to meet the business strategy (as necessary).
•    Develop deep business understanding, build relationships across levels and horizon scan externally to identify opportunities and shape people priorities
•    Use workforce analytics (internal & external) to inform strategic decisions and provide actionable insights to business leaders
•    Anticipate and mitigate people risks, guiding leaders through change and influencing behaviour to build sustained enterprise capability

Workforce and Organisation Design
•    Ensure we have the right skills and structure to execute our strategy and deliver business growth.
•    Align investment to business priorities while managing workforce shape and size to deliver within budget.
•    Improve business resilience, agility and adaptability by designing flexible structures and frameworks that can quickly respond to business/ market changes and growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Performance and Conduct 
•    Partner with the respective CIO MTs to drive a high-performance culture, focusing on both financial and non-financial metrics. 
•    Evolve our reward approach, in collaboration with PRB CoE, to align with business priorities, ensuring value of seat is at the heart of the reward proposition.
•    Elevate our organisational culture by embodying valued behaviours and demonstrating leadership capability to aspire, inspire, and execute effectively. 
•    Use data to guide targeted interventions in relation to conduct expectations from our senior leaders

Processes
•    Work with direct reports and other stakeholders to support the delivery of the T&O priorities and HR priorities, in a safe and well-controlled manner and on an end-to-end basis — incorporating infrastructure and technology requirements
•    Manage people processes (performance, reward, resourcing and talent) to ensure levels of capabilities and performance satisfy current and future requirements of the business in line with HRBP accountabilities to ensure levels of capabilities and performance satisfy current and future requirements of the business

People & Talent
•    Drive skill-building interventions focused on key skills needed to win – human and technical - acknowledging both shared and distinct skill needs across businesses and functions. 
•    Develop talent to ensure a high-quality succession pipeline at all levels and sponsor ongoing development activities that focus on the identified high performing and high potential individuals within the CIO portfolios.
•    Implement an effective buy, build and borrow approach to talent management, linked to the strategic workforce plan enabling diverse talent pipelines and redeployment opportunities across business and functions.
•    Keep abreast of the talent landscape externally to understand key market trends and shifts in workforce patterns to build an approach to external talent pipelining 
•    Shape and translate the employee value proposition, overall and in relation to key roles, to become the employer of choice for top talent.

Risk Management
•    Ensure any audit and compliance issues are resolved in a timely manner.
•    Ensure that Risk Management matters that are brought to the job-holder’s attention are subject to direct remedial action and/or escalated, where appropriate to relevant risk committees

Governance
•    Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct as it relates to the role remit to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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
•    CIO CIB
•    CIO WRB
•    CIO Functions
•    Respective CIO MTs
•    T&O HRMT
•    HR COE partners
•    COO GCIOO

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CIO domains; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Strategic Commercial Insight
•    Digital and Data Fluency 
•    Organisation Design
•    Talent Management and Development 
•    Influencing and Relationship building 
•    Accountability and Decision courage 

Qualifications

Education     Desirable – Undergraduate/ Professional Qualification in Business Management/Human Resources/Finance/Accounting    
Licenses     Desirable — Professional certifications in Reward, Performance management/Human Resources/Accounting/Finance
Membership     Desirable — Membership with professional associations

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.