Global HRBP, Functions

Job Summary

The role holder is accountable for contributing to the development and implementation of an impactful People Agenda for the functions, aligned to the Group’s People Strategy and the strategic priorities of each function, in partnership with the Heads of HR for each of the functions.

Working with a strong commercial focus on return on investment, and agility to move to where the work is, the role holder will work to drive the adoption and impact of the People Plan. The role holder will also partner relevant individual function MT leaders on their strategic people priorities.

The role holder will take the lead on pan-function people initiatives, ensuring levels of capabilities and performance are aligned with current and future business requirements and also deliver appropriate and relevant HR advice, ensuring that this is in line with the overarching business strategy, governance processes and risk appetite.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Partner with the Heads of HR supporting global functions with the delivery of the people plan into the global functions.
• Collaborate across HR to develop and adapt the right products and services in support of the global functions, leveraging the global HR capabilities for the benefit of the functions.
• Work directly with senior leaders in the functions on the highest value people initiatives and interventions to ensure that they can deliver the best outcomes for their employees and their functions.
• Be a strong advocate of employee experience, influencing senior leaders and HR products and processes to ensure an employee-centric approach

Business

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the functions landscape, particularly the core roles of the functions in our business and firm-wide strategy
• Be a disruptor, building new capabilities and driving culture change and driving global change initiatives with stakeholders and wider teams
• Drive adoption of an adaptable, right-sized, right-shored operating model ongoing, working closely with the functions management team members
• Lead global talent forums and drive projects and deliverables that relate to the People Plan

Risk Management

• Understand the risk and control environment in HR’s area of responsibility and drive rectification as required
• Understand and help manage the people-related risk profile of functions including operational and reputational risk, to Group Standards
• Working with ER team, provide oversight of complex employee relations issues involving senior people, significant litigation, and high-profile or broad business issues
• Support the effective implementation of Risk Management framework within the role remit
• Ensure effective processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor and report risk

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 among employees form part of the culture.
• Engage with relevant audit report findings across the relevant functions and ensure feedback is acted upon.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 12 years of experience ideally a HRBP function, or in a broader HR capacity
• Exceptional leadership capabilities and experience management large multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong Communication and Influencing skills
• Exposure to working with multi-cultural/geographic teams and prior experience working in a matrixed environment
• Data-oriented personality with a client centric mindset
• Degree or professional qualification from a recognised academic institution / professional body
• Desirable: Professional certifications in HR or related commercial discipline

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Human Resources Consulting
• Influencing Through Expertise
• Business Intelligence
• Talent Management
• Organizational Change Management
• HR Legal and Regulatory Environment

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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