JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking professional to lead the Early Careers agenda for our Global Business Services (GBS) footprint across India and Malaysia. This role is responsible for setting the strategic direction and ensuring end-to-end execution of early careers hiring and graduate program management—aligned to workforce planning, business needs, and future skills development.

The role combines strategic ownership, programmatic delivery, and deep stakeholder engagement across business leaders, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and People Capability teams—both regionally and globally.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

•    Define and drive the Early Careers strategy for GBS in India and Malaysia, ensuring alignment with broader enterprise talent goals.
Shape the “what, how, and where” of graduate hiring—from skills-based demand planning to assessment strategy and deployment frameworks.
Collaborate with global and regional early careers teams to align on consistent frameworks, value propositions, and governance models

Business
•    Represent India and Malaysia in global early careers forums, sharing insights and shaping strategy.
Champion inclusion, local leadership development, and high-potential pipeline visibility through early careers talent.
Stay ahead of market trends and elevate the graduate proposition through innovation and best practices.
•    Part of global EC leadership team.

Processes
•    Lead end-to-end execution of graduate and intern hiring—from campus engagement, assessments, and onboarding to program management.
Oversee structured graduate journeys, including induction, rotations, development programs, and performance tracking, in partnership with People Capability.
Implement robust governance, program health checks, and data-driven measurement of talent outcomes and ROI.

People & Talent
•    Act as the primary interface across key stakeholder groups:
•    Talent Acquisition and People Capability
•    HR Business Partners across GBS business functions
•    Business stakeholders across Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, and other support functions
•    Global Early Careers and Talent COEs
•    Advise the business on how early careers talent can drive long-term workforce transformation and capability building.

Risk Management
•    Ensure effective first line identification, management, monitoring and reporting of risks is undertaken in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in a way that is consistent with the authority and responsibilities of the role
•    Effective management of operational risks and compliance with all applicable internal policies, external laws and regulation 

Governance
•    Ensure adherence to the Group Student Hiring Standard (or other related policies and standards) and operational processes governing student hiring
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role
•    Assess the effectiveness of the team’s governance, oversight and controls and, if necessary, propose/implement changes in these areas
•    Use data and reporting to track success measures and impact of early careers hiring, ensuring appropriate oversight of strategic and operational effectiveness metrics that are used to ensure flow of quality candidates in the recruitment pipeline
•    Engage with relevant audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon
•    Ensure that all approved HR investments and capital / project expenditure are managed within the agreed enterprise project management standards

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

•    Early Careers programme sponsors and business leaders
•    Colleagues participating in Early Careers programmes and in talent pools
•    Global and Country HRBPs
•    Partners in HR Centre of Expertise
•    Risk / compliance and control partners
•    Third party strategic partners (where applicable)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strategic thinking
• Stakeholder management and influence
• Program design and delivery
• Operational excellence
• People leadership
• Collaboration and cross-functional partnership
• External market orientation
• Employer branding and campus engagement
• Data-driven decision making
• DEI and social impact mindset
• Change agility
• Communication and executive presence
• Talent development and coaching

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.