JOB SUMMARY

This is a PRB Specialist role with lead responsibilities for performance and promotions including design and oversight of systems, processes and related communications within the Bank. Works collaboratively within the Performance Management & Cash Compensation team and wider PRB team and HR counterparts, to deliver broader performance & reward related products across the Bank.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Driving the Bank’s performance strategy and promotions approach, including design and oversight of systems and associated processes.
• Day to day management of related systems, identifying improvements and delivering enhancements to further embed the Bank’s performance management strategy and maintain the robustness of the Bank’s promotion processes, particularly senior promotions. This requires problem-solving, active listening, critical thinking and creativity.

Business

• Embed a high-performance culture across the Bank through effective delivery of performance and promotions products and processes.
• Active engagement with stakeholders for input and approval where required. Liaise with colleagues across HR and the business to understand evolving requirements, identify challenges, and co-create solutions. This can extend to managing conflict and requires a collaborative, problem-solving mindset
• A creative approach to communications, including looking for new and different ways to communicate messages. Understanding internal and external context, including changes and new developments, relating to performance management and broader performance and reward trends.

Processes

• Oversight of all performance and promotions processes, including day to day management of the Performance & Talent module in the Employee Portal, with a focus on effective delivery and positive colleague and people leader experience.
• Oversight of the Bank’s Job Evaluation framework in partnership with Org Design, ensuring this remains up to date and relevant to the current internal and external context.
• Lead operational activities, from performance of the platform to trouble-shooting and making improvements. This requires an eye for detail and a high-level understanding of HR technology platforms and practices at the Bank and extends to guiding the operational teams and using good judgment to resolve issues and collaboration with technology partners and stakeholders such as the OD team to deliver results.

People & Talent

• Supports Head, Performance Management & Cash Compensation to deliver performance and reward products and processes to the organisation, embedding a high-performance culture.
• An understanding of wider performance, reward and benefit practices at SCB is key.

Risk Management

• Proactively identifies and manages risks and issues and takes steps to mitigate these 

Governance

• Ensures compliance with all internal and external requirements relating to data privacy, cyber security and related compliance requirements.

Regulatory & 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.

Key Stakeholders

• PRB Management Team
• PRB Advisory Network
• Heads of HR 
• HR Advisory team
• PRB Hive & Squad members
• CABM partners
• Operations and Technology partners
• Organisation Design team
• Business stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in PRB. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field (Business Management or Accountancy)
• 10+ years experience in a rewards & benefits role ideally in a financial services setup 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing skills
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Detail-oriented
• HR policies, standards & procedures
• Performance management
• Analytical skills

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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