Job Summary

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered, builds and invests in breakthrough ventures in and beyond banking. The platform brings together corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to co-create and invest in ventures that reimagine the future of financial services. 

Today, SC Ventures has more than 30 ventures in the pipeline and holds stakes in 20+ portfolio companies, globally. 

We believe banking plays a critical role in society. Our model reconnects banking with real-world needs by building and scaling institution-grade businesses. Our edge lies in combining venture agility with strength of a global bank – access to markets, clients and capital – while focusing on high-conviction ecosystems, including Digital Banking, Trade & Supply Chains, Digital Assets. Frontier technologies, like AI and blockchain, play crucial roles in building and driving our portfolio ecosystems. 

Headquartered in Singapore, SC Ventures operates globally across UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Kenya. 

Head of SCV Marketing role sits at the intersection of SCV platform marketing strategy, portfolio companies, people leadership, and disciplined operational excellence to deliver integrated marketing communication strategies. The role is responsible for shaping and executing marketing strategies that deepen investor and client engagement, strengthen market position, and support portfolio companies in delivering growth. This role will lead Lead marketing, communications and growth initiatives for both the SC Venture platform and portfolio companies, shaping the overarching SC Ventures brand and narrative and leveraging it to drive ventures commercialization, as well as building credibility and  building preference across a global innovation ecosystem of potential investors, clients, customers and partners and . ensuring connectivity into the Standard Chartered marketing and communications structure.

This role will report directly into the Global Head of CIB Marketing and sit on the CIB Marketing Leadership Team, with a matrixed line into SC Ventures 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
SC Ventures Platform Brand, Narrative & Communications
•    Evolve the overarching SCV brand positioning and narrative, to closely align with platform priorities and strategy.
•    Build thought leadership and market presence through content, media and other flagship events (including opportunistic leveraging of the Bank’s content and events pipeline) 
•    Strengthen visibility and credibility with target audience segments: investors, clients, customers, partners and bank stakeholders  
•    Lead the global PR and communications strategy, including media relations, executive positioning and crisis/issue management 
•    Develop clear POVs and compelling narratives across SCV’s high conviction themes and incorporate venture business models, success stories as proof points 
•    Ensure consistent, high-quality messaging across platform and portfolio, as well as integration with the bank’s communication strategy 
•    Amplify the platform’s role within broader financial services and innovation ecosystems 

Business
Ventures Portfolio Growth & Commercialization 
•    Partner with venture CEOs as a fractional CMO to define positioning, GTM strategy and growth plans 
•    Drive adoption of structured marketing playbooks across ventures to accelerate 0-->1 and 1-->scale journeys 
•    Support ventures through key milestones – launch, fundraising, market expansion etc 

Marketing Infrastructure and Governance 
•    Build and scale shared marketing capabilities (brand, digital, performance, content, CRM etc) 
•    Evolve governance policies, frameworks in partnership with Risk, Legal and Compliance to protect brand and reputation 
•    Run strategy development, planning, budgeting and performance tracking across all marketing activities 
•    Grow agency capabilities through building a roster of cost-efficient, nimble agencies that can be leveraged across both portfolio and platform 

Processes
Enterprise (Bank) Alignment and Integration 
•    Act as primary interface between ventures platform and CIB (bank)’s CABM teams 
•    Ensure alignment with corporate brand messaging frameworks and messaging guidelines 
•    Partner on strategic initiatives, announcements and tentpole events to amplify collective impact 

People & Talent
•    Lead and develop a high performing marketing and communications team 

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
•    SC Ventures Operating Members 
•    SC Ventures Functional Team Members – to help operationalize venture commercialization 
•    SC Ventures Client Engagement Team 
•    SC Ventures Investment Team 
•    SC Ventures CABM 
•    SCB Group 
•    Broader ecosystem of fintech stakeholders and partners 
•    External agencies (where applicable)

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Adaptive & Strategic Planning 
•    Brand Strategy & Management 
•    Business Acumen 

Qualifications

•    15-20 years’ experience in marketing with proven track-record driving results in both brand and growth/performance marketing
•    Deep understanding of financial services, including banking and capital markets, but also in emerging areas, e.g., digital assets 
•    Strong foundation in driving customer acquisition, engagement and revenue impact – not just awareness 
•    Experience working within large, regulated, matrixed organizations with strong understanding of Risk, Legal and Compliance frameworks 
•    Background/experience in venture building, venture capital, innovation studios and the start-up ecosystem is advantageous, but not necessary
•    Data-led strategic thinker who can interpret and incorporate multiple viewpoints from stakeholders into a cohesive marketing strategy, linked to business goals, and drive to execution 
•    Executive presence with ability to operate at board, C-suite levels, as well as experience in navigating matrixed, multi-stakeholder environments and driving alignment 
•    Comfortable with reconciling venture agility with enterprise brand and reputational guardrails 
•    Scale marketing capabilities and performance across SCV global offices  

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.