Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior HR Advisor to deliver impactful advisory services, enabling People Leaders and colleagues to drive key people priorities. In this role, you will strengthen leadership capabilities, accelerate talent growth, and shape a differentiated colleague experience across the Bank. HR Advisory enables Standard Chartered’s people strategy by delivering direct, high-impact support to People Leaders. Through targeted interactions, the team advances a culture of action, ambition, and accountability while ensuring alignment with the Bank’s strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver proactive HR advisory support across leadership capability, employee development, and continuous performance management.
• Collaborate with HR Centres of Excellence and Business/Cluster teams to drive HR initiatives.
• Identify recurring people challenges and propose scalable interventions.
• Engage directly with high-potential talent and support differentiated career experiences.
• Lead the execution of HR programmes aligned with the People Plan.
• Support People Leaders in navigating complex employee relations cases in partnership with ER teams.
• Champion simple, effective, and scalable HR process implementation across the business.
• Leverage data analytics to drive insights and continuous improvement in advisory services.

Skills and Experience

• Proven HR advisory experience with senior stakeholder engagement.
• Expertise in talent management, performance management, and employee relations.
• Ability to influence People Leaders and drive meaningful people outcomes.
• Strong project execution and organisational change management skills.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and facilitation abilities.
• Analytical thinking with the ability to derive insights from people data.
• Professional certification in HR (desirable).

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.