Brand & Marketing Apprentice Singapore 2025 – Singapore Communications

Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing Apprentice 2025 – Singapore Communications

Recent Polytechnic Graduates who join the Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing (CABM) Singapore Apprenticeship Programme will go through a 12-month learning and development journey across the areas within the CABM function including Internal Communications, External Communications and Community Impact.

The 12-month spent supporting the Singapore Communications team enables the successful candidate to gain a deep understanding on strategies to build and protect the Bank’s reputation through the use of effective communications tools (external and internal), sharpen skills in project management and events organising and related editorial work. Day-to day work include but not limited to:
•    Pro-active delivery and pitching story angles that would appeal to both internal and external audience that are aligned with priorities in the annual plan
•    Working with the CABM team and related stakeholders in Singapore to ensure alignment in approach to communications and implementation of marketing events or projects
•    Building profile of the Brand and the Singapore management team, the business segments strategy, HR-driven focus and bank-wide employee initiatives.
•    Events and campaign activation (community impact and sponsorships)

About the Apprenticeship Programme

During this learning journey, you will embark on either 2×6-months or 3x4months rotations. You will be exposed to different projects and tasks, alongside structured trainings, mentorship and on-the-job learning. Through the programme, you’ll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which include: 
•    Talent assignments 
•    Technical and professional skills training 
•    Future Skills and development workshops
•    Targeted online learning 
•    Inspiring thought leadership speaker events 
•    Real-life business problem solving and more 

Eligibility

•    We welcome graduates from all Polytechnic Diploma disciplines with less than 2 years of working experience. 
•    Have the permanent legal right to work in Singapore
•    Keen interest in Banking and Finance industry

Skills for Success

•    Innate integrity and discretion
•    Critical thinking skills to exercise judgement and continuously looking for better and more effective ways of working
•    Responsiveness and the ability to think on your feet
•    Creative thinking and problem solving skills
•    Ability to manage different scenarios and maintain a positive, professional attitude
•    Planning and organisation 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.

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