Key Responsibilities

The individual will be responsible in developing fit-for-purpose future strategy and roadmap for the Workforce Management team and a centralised capability by working closely with Operations, Technology and Functions (Support) teams of the organisation.

• Lead a global team to drive strategy and execution of productivity upliftment programs across various businesses and geographies.
• Build benefit tracking mechanism to effectively track impact of the proposed measures.
• Work closely with Leadership teams to drive shared business goals and implement the capabilities od the centralised teams.
• Build effective network within strategic program leadership, business leads and external stakeholders to drive maximum value from engagements.
• Bring inside-out and outside-in perspective and propose development of coherent plans of action (jointly with stakeholders) 
• Influence business in effective decision making, adapt to changing conditions that impact goals by identifying by enabling businesses solve problems, improve business performance, create value, and maximize ROI/RoTE.
• Ability to conduct strategy workshops with senior leadership.
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills, stakeholder orientation, mental agility, and outcome driven.
• Constructively challenges business on assumptions and goals; asks questions that effectively lead to deeper understanding of the problem statement.
• Strategic thinking and thought leadership with the ability to steer the team to logically structure and process data into meaningful and actionable recommendations.

Skills and Experience

• Microsoft Office Tools    
• BI Reporting tools - Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, SAP BusinessObjects    

Skills and Requirements:

• Looking for a candidate with 15+ years of relevant experience in strategy consulting / GBS advisory / workforce management / transformation
• Banking / Global Business Services domain knowledge is good to have but not a necessity.
• Experience of running and managing large scale transformation initiatives
• Experience in managing large scale transformation engagements at a global scale.
• Experience/Comfortable with managing a large global team with the capability to drive, motivate and lead senior managers towards a common outcome.
• A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Flexible and creative: ability to propose innovative ideas, build empathy within the firm and win the trust of the clients.
• Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization.
• Stakeholder management skills and project management skills
• Proven influencing and perseverance skills to tailor recommendation to the needs of stakeholders and effectively engage them to obtain commitment and drive impact.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to proactively identify opportunities and drive results.
• Experience of working in a cross functional remote global team

Qualifications

• Graduate

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.