Job Summary

As the Associate Director of Strategy, this role is crucial in assisting the Strategy leadership team to define and implement the organization's strategic vision. It demands a proactive, strategic thinker with robust analytical skills and a collaborative spirit to lead complex projects that support our long-term objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and implement strategic initiatives that support the bank's growth objectives.
• Conduct comprehensive market analysis and competitive benchmarking to identify opportunities and threats.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Prepare detailed reports and presentations for senior management and the board of directors.
• Monitor industry trends and provide insights to inform strategic decision-making.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate development activities.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the strategy team.
• Cross collaborate with both Business and Functional teams to support on vaious porject initiatives

Key Stakeholders

• Group Management Team 
• GMT - 1, 2 and 3 across all Businesses, Functions and Regions
• External Professional bodies and Partners

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in financial services with deep expertise in banking consulting and innovation driven transformations.
• Banking consulting experience with a top tier firm and/or with strategy functions of leading banks as project manager or Engagement Manager
• Emerging markets knowledge or experience preferred (especially in Asia, Africa or Middle East)
• Comfortable working in a relatively unstructured, project-based and multi-cultural environment
• Engage senior stakeholders across the bank on projects

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.