Job Summary

We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking professional to lead the Early Careers agenda for our Markets & Coverage teams in Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) globally. This role is responsible for setting the strategic direction and ensuring end-to-end execution of early careers hiring for Markets & Coverage and graduate program management—aligned to workforce planning, business needs, and future skills development.

The role combines strategic ownership, programmatic delivery, and deep stakeholder engagement across business leaders, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and People Capability teams globally.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Execute the Early Careers strategy for Markets & Coverage globally, ensuring alignment with the bank’s skills agenda, broader workforce strategy and enterprise talent goals.
•    The role holder is accountable for ensuring a differentiated offering that maximizes candidate and employee experience for Markets & Coverage EC talent including but not limited to the Graduate Programme, the Internship Programme, Apprenticeship, Spring Programme etc.
•    Be hands-on with execution & own E2E delivery- Shape the “what, how, and where” of EC talent hiring—from skills-based demand planning, Campus strategy, building EC pipeline, compensation review, talent attraction approach, selection & assessment, intern to grad conversion approach, Day 1 readiness, development, high-potential pipeline visibility and deployment frameworks.
•    Responsible for developing and managing a sustainable, high quality and diverse early careers talent pipeline delivering the skills and competencies required by the business to best serve the client
•    Stay ahead of market trends and elevate the graduate proposition through innovation and best practices.
•    Embed and optimize the new RPO model to enhance productivity and effectiveness, ensuring alignment with global and regional goals, with a focus on creating streamlined ways of working that maximize ROI.
•    Collaborate with global early careers team and global HR teams to align on consistent frameworks, value propositions, and governance models

Business
•    Responsible for continual engagement with relevant senior stakeholders and building a deep, strategic collaboration with business leaders, Talent and People Capability functions, Lateral Recruitment, Diversity and Inclusion teams, and country HR teams to align early careers strategies
•    Build a deep understanding of business priorities and align the early careers program to meet long-term business needs, focusing on creating a structured, programmatic approach that supports workforce evolution and organizational strategy.
•    Actively engage with business leaders to understand early careers pipeline requirements and integrate feeder roles into the talent strategy, ensuring seamless deployment of interns and graduates into permanent roles.
•    Represent Markets & Coverage in global early careers forums, sharing insights and shaping strategy.

Processes
•    Define and track success metrics, including business and EC talent experience, reduced attrition, increased performance, high engagement, and accelerated career progression, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
•    Lead end-to-end execution of EC talent hiring for Markets & Coverage
•    Own delivery of structured programmatic journeys, including induction, Day 1 readiness, intern to grad conversion, assignments, development programs, and performance tracking, in partnership with People Capability, Talent team, EC team and business.

People & Talent
•    Act as the primary interface across key stakeholder groups:
•    Talent Acquisition and People Capability
•    HR Business Partners across Markets & Coverage business functions
•    Business stakeholders across Markets & Coverage
•    Advise the business on how early careers talent can drive long-term workforce transformation and capability building.
•    Fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture that reflects the bank’s values and vision for early careers talent. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management
•    Ensure effective first line identification, management, monitoring and reporting of risks is undertaken in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in a way that is consistent with the authority and responsibilities of the role
•    Effective management of operational risks and compliance with all applicable internal policies, external laws and regulation 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor's degree

•    5+ years of early careers/campus recruiting experience preferably within financial services

•    Experience working with an RPO model is a plus

•    Strong data analysis skills

•    Ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 136,900 USD to 205,400 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers