Job Summary

•    The Executive Talent Aquisition Partner – GSF is responsible for designing and delivering recruitment and talent deployment strategies, in line with global strategy but also considering the entity requirements in each location, across Group Support Functions (GSF). 
•    Responsible for leadership hires at MD grade and strategically critical roles at Band 4 (ED) grade, primarily across EMEA, partnering with Lateral Resourcing where appropriate, to ensure all hiring needs are clearly articulated and delivered in line with the agreed standards.  
•    Working in close partnership with local and global GSF management teams, stakeholders and Head’s of HR to understand demand and ensure appropriate delivery 
•    Development of talent pipelines, operating at pace, with balanced assessments and keeping a focus on diversity & inclusion.  
•    Drive excellence in service delivery, putting employee experience at the heart of what they do and ensuring business stakeholder satisfaction with the overall hiring process and quality of candidates.  

Key Responsibilities

• Be the main relationship holder within TA for designated hiring managers and executives, responsible for executing on leadership and specialist hires for key stakeholders. This may include other key roles that are less senior in nature, but highly visible and of great importance to the overall business plan. By working alongside TA product counterparts in other parts of the globe, you will provide talent intelligence in order to drive business performance. 
• Ensure that the Recruitment Product is delivered efficiently, providing outstanding customer experience to achieve hiring targets: (time, cost and quality standards). 
• Compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies, controls and standards

• Increase the profile of TA, developing a strong network of internal and external stakeholders (including senior managers in the business, HR, candidates, suppliers) 
• Deliver high levels of sponsorship, engagement and collective understanding 
• Increase stakeholder awareness of what TA offer and need in return 
• Monitor and manage third party supplier performance against SLAs, driving performance and resolving issues 
• Create close, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders across HR (including generalists, operations, other product specialists, HR Change Management, HR Service Delivery, Analytics, Reward, Talent & Learning etc), who will provide key expertise and insights required to execute talent strategies for designated Business / Function

• Executing on the following - including (but not limited to): 
• Business needs discussions; sourcing; selection, and delivering rigor and good decision making by following the Executive Hiring process; 
• Executing international talent deployment activities (as applicable) 
• Support the Country TA teams in their execution of hiring for designated Business / Function, playing an overall coordination and escalation role 
• Increase direct sourcing, and lead global sourcing campaigns as required, establishing priorities, budgets and channels, and driving / monitoring progress 
• Drive more diverse talent acquisition pools, and greater internal, cross functional and cross border talent moves 

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.