Job Summary

You will join a Singapore-based team with a global mandate with a scope of the work encompassing the entire SCB population across 50+ countries. As an Organisation Design Specialist, you will work with the global management team, Heads of HR, and CEOs to deliver the organisation design agenda for their respective units.

Key Responsibilities: 

You will lead and be accountable for managing and providing strategic organisation design advisory to major organisation units in the Bank (e.g. Corporate & Institutional Banking, Technology, Transformation & Ops) with the following scope:

• Engage senior leaders to distil and analyse complex business and organisational issues by:
• • Understanding the business strategy of their organisational units, regulatory context, and their implications to organisation design
  • Determining the scope, priority, and impact of organisation design initiatives to related business or functions teams

• Advise business/function stakeholders on their Target Operating Model (TOM) and organisational structures by:
  • Analysing the current state through Organisation Design Reviews (ODR) conducted which assess structure, size, shape, spans, and layers of the organisational unit
  • Leveraging thought leadership and best practices to enrich current state analysis and recommendations on the future state organisation
  • Co-developing future state TOM and organisational structures to drive greater client centricity, increased productivity, and cost efficiencies

• Provide expertise on other related organisation design topics (not limited to):
• • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures – from pre-deal assessment, deal execution, to post-merger integration
  • Strategic Workforce Planning – integration of both capacity and capability components of an organisation’s future of work, workforce, and workplace
  • Strategic Change Management – ensuring a successful transition to the future state with its full benefits realised

• Collaborate with HRBPs to monitor implementation and ensure achievement of desired outcomes by:
• • Providing continued advisory and tracking the progress and benefits of organisation design solutions delivered

• Uphold the Bank’s knowledge on organisation design capabilities by conducting ongoing research of the latest trends and thought leadership

• In addition, you will be expected to actively mentor and uplift capabilities by:
• • Guiding and coaching organisation design team members
  • Imparting organisation design skills to HRBPs, to facilitate delivery of organisation design solutions within their units

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Displays exemplary conduct and lives by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct
• Takes 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
• Achieves the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment
• Effectively and collaboratively identifies, escalates, mitigates and resolves risk, conduct and compliance matters

Key Stakeholders

• Your clients are the global management team, CEOs, and Heads of HRs for Global, Regional and Country businesses/ functions
• You will work in close partnership with HRBPs facing off to these clients, as well as develop relationships with other HR Centres of Expertise (“CoE”) to provide holistic people and organisation solutions

Our Ideal Candidate

• 12+ years of relevant experience in organisation design, organisation transformation and/or strategy consulting either in an external or internal capacity
• 3+ years of experience in financial services/banking sector and/or being in a global role a plus
• Functional expertise in one or more of the following areas: Strategic Workforce Planning, Strategic Change Management and/or Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
• Demonstrated experience leading teams
• Well-versed in engaging and influencing C-suite level stakeholders
• Ambitious, organised self-starter who has strong business acumen, and organisational navigation skills
• Open to varied work responsibilities and does what is necessary to achieve desired outcome

What’s In It For You

If you join us, you will be:

• Part of a fast-paced, high-performing, and supportive team
• Engaging directly with senior leaders to solve for complex business issues
• Able to influence and impact strategic organisation design decisions across all parts of the bank
• Able to independently lead a team to design and deliver organisation design solutions
• Able to tap on flexible and hybrid working arrangements

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Collaborative in approach
• Independent, self-starter
• Structured thinking
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Disciplined, adaptive and responsive
• Strong personal desire for feedback & alternative thinking and openness for all varied types of work responsibilities required to generate data-based insights
• Experience leading a team 

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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