Client Service Manager - Distribution Network

Standard Chartered India; Kolkata Metropolitan Area; Hybrid; INR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank India in Kolkata seeks a customer service and operations professional to support branches across the network. You will manage customer inquiries, resolve complaints, and ensure accurate processing in line with policy.

You will gather performance statistics, monitor customer satisfaction, support regulatory compliance, and contribute to cost control and efficiency. The role requires 1–4 years of banking experience, strong communication, and a commitment to ethics.

Qualifications

• Graduate/ Post Graduate qualification.
• Customer orientation and service focus.
• 1–4 years of banking experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Team-playing ability.
• Banking knowledge and front/back office process understanding.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high level customer service and handle difficult customer situations.
• Ensure resolution of complaints through COMMAND.
• Gather/prepare statistics for service quality and productivity indicators.
• Ensure compliance with guidelines and ensure audit readiness.
• Find ways to improve operational efficiency and control costs to meet budgets.
• Ensure accurate processing of transactions within standard turnaround times to satisfy customer needs.
• Monitor customer satisfaction and drive continuous improvement.
• Adhere to processes and facilitate first-time resolution; minimize rejections and complaints.
• Monitor transaction volumes and support migration to alternate banking channels.
• Ensure completeness of transactions and proper authorization of concessions.
• General reconciliation and control activities.
• Be multi-skilled to handle all types of banking transactions and services.
• Sales referrals by observing customer transactions for cross-selling.

Skills

Customer Orientation

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Customer Experience Management

Anti-money Laundering Awareness

Education

Graduate/ Post Graduate

Job description

• Ensure high level of customer service and manage difficult customer situations.
• Ensure resolution of all complaints received for branches through COMMAND.
• Gather/prepare statistics for service quality and productivity indicators
• Ensure compliance with internal and external guidelines and ensure minimal comments in audits and other inspections
• Find ways to improve operational efficiency and control costs to meet cost budgets
• Ensure transactions are processed with a high level of accuracy and commitment within standard turn around time in order to satisfy customer needs
• Monitor customer satisfaction survey ratings, net promoter score or any other survey/ feedback ratings taken from customers and ensure continuous improvement if below bench-mark, sustain and better quality service
• Ensure adherence to laid down processes, facilitate first time resolution. Minimize rejections and customer complaints
• Monitor and track transaction volumes and ensure effective transaction migration to alternate channels of banking
• Ensure validity and completeness of transactions processed and ensure concessions relative to exchange rate, fees, charges etc. are authorized/ overridden by appropriate authorities
• Responsible for general reconciliation and control activities
• Be multi-skilled to handle all kinds of transactions and services in the bank as per applicable guidelines
• Sales Referrals: where relevant, identify prospects for cross-selling from observation of customer transactions to highlight to sales staff
• Contribute to branch performance through referrals, efficient customer service, effective operations controls
• He/She is aware of bank’s Mis-selling & Sales Policies and ensure adherence all the times.
• Ensure he/ she is fully aware of all the policies and procedures issued in relation to ORMA, Group Code of Conduct, KYC/CDD/EDD & Money laundering prevention. He/she must ensure compliance with these policies and procedures on an ongoing basis. Any suspicious transaction must immediately be reported to the supervising officer.
• Premises management in areas of merchandising, housekeeping as well as store management. Branch upkeep and maintenance
• Responsible for health and safety for all. As part of the Health and Safety guidelines you should:
• Take reasonable care for the health and safety of co-workers and those who may be affected by your actions or your omissions; Co-operate with Management to support and promote Health and safety in the workplace;
• Ensure that your actions do not put others at risk; Work in a healthy and safe manner;
• Encourage others to work in a healthy and safe manner
• Report all accidents and incidents and bring to the attention of the management any hazard in the workplace

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure high level of customer service and manage difficult customer situations.
• Ensure resolution of all complaints received for branches through COMMAND.
• Gather/prepare statistics for service quality and productivity indicators
• Ensure compliance with internal and external guidelines and ensure minimal comments in audits and other inspections
• Find ways to improve operational efficiency and control costs to meet cost budgets
• Ensure transactions are processed with a high level of accuracy and commitment within standard turn around time in order to satisfy customer needs
• Monitor customer satisfaction survey ratings, net promoter score or any other survey/ feedback ratings taken from customers and ensure continuous improvement if below bench-mark, sustain and better quality service
• Ensure adherence to laid down processes, facilitate first time resolution. Minimize rejections and customer complaints
• Monitor and track transaction volumes and ensure effective transaction migration to alternate channels of banking
• Ensure validity and completeness of transactions processed and ensure concessions relative to exchange rate, fees, charges etc. are authorized/ overridden by appropriate authorities
• Responsible for general reconciliation and control activities
• Be multi-skilled to handle all kinds of transactions and services in the bank as per applicable guidelines
• Sales Referrals: where relevant, identify prospects for cross-selling from observation of customer transactions to highlight to sales staff
• Contribute to branch performance through referrals, efficient customer service, effective operations controls
• He/She is aware of bank’s Mis-selling & Sales Policies and ensure adherence all the times.
• Ensure he/ she is fully aware of all the policies and procedures issued in relation to ORMA, Group Code of Conduct, KYC/CDD/EDD & Money laundering prevention. He/she must ensure compliance with these policies and procedures on an ongoing basis. Any suspicious transaction must immediately be reported to the supervising officer.
• Premises management in areas of merchandising, housekeeping as well as store management. Branch upkeep and maintenance
• Responsible for health and safety for all. As part of the Health and Safety guidelines you should:
• Take reasonable care for the health and safety of co-workers and those who may be affected by your actions or your omissions; Co-operate with Management to support and promote Health and safety in the workplace;
• Ensure that your actions do not put others at risk; Work in a healthy and safe manner;
• Encourage others to work in a healthy and safe manner
• Report all accidents and incidents and bring to the attention of the management any hazard in the workplace

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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills And Experience

• Addressing Customer Needs
• Anti-money Laundering Policies and Procedures
• Bank Account Features and Service
• Customer Experience Management
• Customer Interaction
• Customer Retention

Qualifications

• Graduate/ Post Graduate
• Customer Orientation and service focus
• Anywhere between 1 - 4 years of overall experience
• Banking knowledge, understanding of front and back office processes and procedures
• Good Interpersonal Skills
• Strong Communication Skills
• Team-playing ability

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.