Job Summary

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The Executive Alumni Programme Lead is responsible for the end-to-end design, set-up, and delivery of the Bank’s Executive Alumni Programme. This role encompasses programme strategy, execution, governance, engagement, and cross-functional delivery to ensure a high-quality experience for former senior leaders and supports the Bank’s long-term leadership, brand, and relationship strategy.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape a strategically important, high‑visibility programme that will enhance the Bank’s long‑term leadership, brand, and global network.In this role you will create revenue growth opportunities by designing and launching a best‑in‑class alumni proposition for former senior leaders, defining the strategy, operating model, engagement architecture, and signature experiences that will form the foundation of a multi‑year programme.You will work at the centre of cross‑functional collaboration, partnering with senior stakeholders across Strategy, Talent, Brand, CIB, and WRB to ensure a coherent, premium, and insight‑driven alumni experience that is aligned with our brand proposition.This role will require a deep commercial understanding, strong business network, strategic thinking, disciplined execution, and the ability to influence at senior levels.  

Key Responsibilities

•    Strategy & Programme Design:
•    Develop and refine the programme strategy, operating model, value proposition, and success measures.
•    Define alumni segmentation, engagement approach, and annual engagement plan starting with 2026.
•    Contribute to the multi-year roadmap, including scaling and digital capability enhancements.

•    Programme Delivery & Execution:
•    Lead the set-up of the delivery team and oversee workstreams spanning brand, communications, data, CRM, events, and governance.
•    Manage launch activities, including onboarding the launch cohort and delivering the first flagship event.
•    Oversee the delivery of the 2026 programme of events and engagement moments.
•    Ensure a premium and consistent alumni experience across all touchpoints. 
•    Data & Insights:
•    Oversee CRM set-up, data models, and analytics requirements.
•    Track engagement metrics and use insights to enhance the offering and improve decision-making.
•    Ensure alumni feedback informs future content, themes, and strategic priorities.

Function specific: 
Stakeholder Management:
•    Build strong internal partnerships with cross-functional teams, such as CEO Office, CABM, Talent Acquisition to design and implement deliver the programme 
•    Partner with senior leaders in CIB and WRB to drive alignment and secure support for the programme.
•    Business Engagement:

•    Collaborate with various business functions (CIB / WRB) to integrate alumni engagement efforts with broader business objectives.
•    Facilitate cross-functional initiatives that leverage alumni relationships to support business growth opportunities.

•    People and Talent
•    Set and monitor responsibilities for colleagues supporting delivery of the role objectives and key results, ensuring that continuous, balanced feedback is provided in line with performance goals  
•    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. 
•    Governance 
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Maintain oversight of appropriate governance and controls, as they relate to the roles objectives and key results, and if necessary propose / implement changes.
•    Engage with relevant audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon. 

Regulatory and 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. 

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate 

• 8+ years of experience in designing and launching strategic, relationship‑led programmes (e.g., alumni, client, or executive networks) with measurable commercial impact.

• Strong strategic thinking capabilities, able to define a multi‑year vision, operating model, and roadmap for a global alumni proposition.

• Deep commercial acumen and market awareness, with the ability to identify and convert alumni engagement into revenue growth opportunities.

• Highly effective stakeholder manager, with experience influencing and partnering with senior leaders across multiple functions (Strategy, Talent, Brand, CIB, WRB or similar).

• Demonstrated strength in customer/experience design, creating premium, insight‑led engagement journeys and signature experiences aligned to a global brand.

• Excellent execution and programme management skills, with disciplined planning, governance, and follow‑through in complex, cross‑functional environments.

Role Specific Technical competencies    

•  Enterprise Programme Leadership
  •    Project / Programme Management
  •    Strategic Planning 
  •    Business Analytics 
  •    Business & Commercial Insight (CIB / WRB)
  •    Change Management
  •    Stakeholder & Relationship Management
  •    Influencing Through Expertise
  •    Global Collaboration
  •    Brand Management 

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.

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