Role Summary

This role could be based in Hong Kong and UAE. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The Benefits Lead will be responsible for managing and executing the Bank’s pensions and benefits strategy for their respective region/entity coverage. This role involves working and collaborating closely with the Reward colleagues and local management teams to ensure that the Bank’s benefits programs align with our goal of being an employer of choice and adhere to all regulatory requirements and group policies. Experience with managing employee benefits captive programs is a plus. 

Role Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) in all areas of employee benefits, including, but not limited to (a) Insurable Benefits, (b) Leave, (c) Cars, (d) Benefit Allowances, (e) Long Service Awards.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of benefit offerings and stay abreast of new trends and developments in benefit design and governance across your coverage.
• Provide strategic advisory to stakeholders in the design, implementation, and maintenance of benefit offerings, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes that align with organizational objectives.
• Oversee all benefits provided by the Group, including significant changes to terms and providers, ensuring compliance with the Group Pensions and Benefits Standard.
• Manage the support of consultants and third parties where required, including consideration and integration of technology aspects to ensure successful implementation and delivery of benefits.
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective two-way benefits communication strategies. This includes developing surveys to gauge employee preferences and satisfaction with benefit offerings, and structuring communications to maximize understanding and appreciation of benefits.
• Provide strategic input for integrating benefits strategies with other aspects of the Bank’s people strategy, including wellbeing, employee value proposition, performance, reward and benefits, sustainable engagement, and business performance.
• Manage key global policies, including contract management and periodic review, with support from the Benefits Operations team.
• Lead and manage benefits projects and areas of specialisation as agreed and assigned within the team.

Process and Governance

• Provide insight on process mapping to capture and maintain global benefits processes.
• The HR Change Office in relation to benefits change requests.
• Ensure holistic assessment of requests considering impact to systems, payroll, and benefits processes.
• Where material/new Benefits Change is implemented, lead the assessment of current and development of new end-to-end designs and their translation into processes.
• Responsible on reflecting the Bank’s governance requirements in the development of solutions for markets. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring the appropriate consultations and approvals are sought ahead of benefit changes being implemented.
• Facilitating business input towards the Bank’s risk and governance requirements in relation to assigned contractual relationships (e.g. Third Party Risk, Cloud Governance, Outsourcing, Information & Cyber Security (ICS)  

Key Stakeholders

• Global Heads, Performance, Reward & Benefit (PRB)
• Head, PRB Group Processes / Benefits / Wellbeing
• Head, Pensions and Reward Analytics
• Rewards and HR Service Delivery colleagues in regions/countries
• Benefits Leads/Managers & Operations team

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business / statistics / actuarial science / public health / HR or related field
• Strong experience in total rewards, and have solid exposure in various industries (professional, FI, Insurance etc)
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing complex, global benefits, and wellbeing portfolios
• Strong Analytical and financial modelling skills is ideal
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at the executive level
• Additional language proficiency relevant to region/entity coverage considered a plus.

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.