Associate Director / Director, Strategy

Standard Chartered; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Unmind wellbeing platform

Continuous learning

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Standard Chartered seeks an experienced Director to lead project planning and delivery across multiple engagements in a globally connected environment. The role involves guiding Associates and Associate Directors, shaping strategic priorities, and driving people initiatives such as recruiting and training.

You will work with senior stakeholders across businesses and geographies, collaborating with Managing Directors to apply expertise and deliver impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in financial services and banking consulting / strategy
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders across multiple geographies
• Ability to lead projects and teams in a structured, global environment
• Experience in driving people initiatives such as coaching and development
• Strong communication and strategic agenda shaping capabilities

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and delivery across engagements
• Guide Associates & Associate Directors on assignments and development
• Drive strategy team initiatives (recruiting, training)
• Manage daily project management processes with MDs
• Coach and train team members and support people initiatives

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Strategy

Project management

Coaching & development

Communication

Financial services

Presentation

Job description

Job Summary

This role could be based in UK, HK or Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

• Play a project manager role in planning and delivering projects
• Manage and guide the work of Associates and Associate Directors throughout their project assignments and help with their professional development
• Drive strategy team initiatives (e.g., recruiting, training)

About Team Function

As a Director within the team you will have the opportunity to help to shape the strategic agenda of the Group, working closely with the most senior stakeholders in the bank. Our work is broad ranging; we help the Board and top management to understand key industry trends and their implications, and also work directly with the leadership teams in business segments, geographies and functions to define their strategic priorities and implementation plans.

Key Responsibilities

• The work is project based, and as a Director, your role will be to manage and steer the projects you work on day to day, typically working with a team of 1-2 Associates/Associate Directors.
• You will work closely with the team’s Managing Directors within the team according to the relevant expertise required for the project.
• Manage the daily strategy project management processes, together with the team’s Managing Directors
• Provide regular coaching and training to associate and associate directors in the team. Support delivery of the team’s people initiatives

Key Stakeholders

• Group MT, Group MT-1 to Group MT-3, across all businesses, functions and regions

Skills And Experience

• 8+ years of experience in financial services with deep expertise in banking consulting and innovation driven transformations.
• Banking consulting experience with a top tier firm and/or with strategy functions of leading banks as Project Manager or Engagement Manager
• Emerging markets knowledge or experience preferred (especially in Asia, Africa or Middle East)
• Comfortable working in a relatively unstructured, project-based and multi-cultural environment
• Engage senior stakeholders across the bank on projects

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Analytics
• Business Markets
• Effective Communications
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Influence Through Expertise
• Financial Analysis
• Relationship Management

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.