Business Platforms and Partnerships Graduate Programme – 2026

About the Business Platforms & Partnerships Team

Through innovation and collaboration, the Business Platform & Partnership team enables our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business to deliver simpler, more resilient, and secure solutions for our clients. The team works closely with the CIB business lines and the Technology and Operations (T&O) business to enable the smooth execution of the CIB business strategy by exploring new opportunities for growth through partnerships on digital platforms and leading the work in CIB on key innovation areas such as Digital Assets and the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)

About the Graduate Programme – how you’ll learn and grow


Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. From day one, you’ll build the skills that matter – through real-world projects, mentoring, and tailored learning journeys. Our 12-month graduate programme is designed to accelerate your development and set you up for long-term success. You’ll benefit from 

• Structured learning: Classroom training combined with hands-on experience
• Global collaboration: Work with diverse teams and experienced leaders
• Skill development: Build technical expertise and professional capabilities
  
  

We are looking for a passionate and driven Singapore-based graduate to join our Engagement, Development & Innovation team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation, people engagement, and learning & development within the Bank. 

As a core member of the team, you will take ownership of developing and running our internal innovation program – a platform to spark creativity, support intrapreneurship, and pilot new ideas that drive business and operational improvement. 

You will also work closely with the Engagement, Development, and Innovation Lead to support people-focused initiatives, including employee engagement campaigns, learning and development (L&D) programs, and cross-functional events.

Bring the skills and we’ll help you to build your career

We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll have 

• Strong academic performance and extracurricular involvement.
• The ability to work in a team with agility and resilience.
• You’ll be an analytical thinker with strong attention to detail.
• A passion for dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• Excellent project management and communication skills.
• The permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.
• You must be a final year student, able to start full-time employment in July 2026 

Key Dates 

• Assessment Centres: October 2025 to December 2025
• Start Date: July 2026 

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

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