Specialist, Organisation Design

Job Summary

You will join a Singapore-based team with a global mandate — the scope of the work encompasses the entire SCB population (~85,000 employees across 50+ countries). As an organisation design specialist, you will work with senior leaders and heads of in-country HR and CEOs to solve complex global and regional business challenges. Read on to find out how you can be part of a fast-paced, diverse, and high-performing team.

Strategy

You will be apprenticed to our Organisation Design Leads to:
•    Engage senior leaders to distil and analyse complex business and organisational issues 
•    Understand the business strategy of their organisational units, regulatory context, and their implications to organisation design
•    Advise business/function stakeholders on their Target Operating Model (TOM) and organisational structures
•    Utilise an evidence-based approach to analyse the current state through Organisation Design Reviews (ODR) which assess structure, size, shape, spans, and layers of the organisational unit 
•    Leverage thought leadership and best practices to enrich current state analysis and recommendations on the future state organisation
•    Co-develope future state TOM and organisational structures with senior executives of the business/function 
•    Collaborate with HRBPs to monitor implementation and ensure achievement of desired outcomes by:
•    Provide continued advisory and tracking the progress and benefits of transition to the future state organisation

Business
•    Proactively form credible relationships to effectively partner with business leaders and challenge / influence relevant decision-making as appropriate.
•    Act as a change agent and key enabler to help drive global and Functions’ specific change initiatives with stakeholders and wider teams. 

Key Responsibilities

Processes
•    Provide support for the implementation and execution of HR processes, policies and procedures ensuring compliance with local regulations
•    Work with risk control owners and/or Group policy owners to ensure effective implementation and operationalisation of relevant policies and control standards set by them.

People & Talent 
•    Work in collaboration with relevant stakeholders

Risk Management

•    Understand and help manage the people-related risk profile of functions including operational and reputational risk, to Group Standards
•    Support the effective implementation of the Risk Management framework within the role remit

Governance 

•    Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct, as it relates to the role remit, to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations form part of the culture within Functions.

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

•    Your clients are senior stakeholders of the Bank. 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
 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Organisation Structuring
• Organisation Change Management
• Project and Programme Management
• Workforce Planning & Analytics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of relevant experience in organisation transformation, strategy, or broad-based strategic human capital consulting. May be in either an external or internal capacity
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics or any Equivalent
• Smart, motivated, self-starter who is willing to learn and interested in strategic HR problems and organisation design
• Open to varied work responsibilities and does what is necessary to achieve desired outcomes
• Experience in financial services/ banking sector and/or in a global role a plus
   

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.

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