Associate Director, Insurance Specialist

Standard Chartered; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Learning culture

Inclusive organisation

Job summary

Standard Chartered in Singapore seeks an Associate Director, Insurance Specialist to drive insurance referrals and train Relationship Managers, focusing on achieving sales targets and delivering compelling client solutions.

You will lead with integrity, collaborate across internal teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and coach the sales team to pitch insurance propositions while maintaining high standards of risk management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant sales experience.
• Experience in insurance sales preferred.
• M5, M5A, M8, M8A, M9, HI certifications preferred.
• Strong business communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fact-find insurance need analysis for clients and provide prompt advice and solutions.
• Maintain a systematic review process for existing policyholders.
• Ensure customer enquiries are promptly attended to.
• Provide prompt and regular reporting of leads, sales activity and pipeline cases.
• Collaborate with Relationship Managers, fiduciary, credit teams and insurance providers on case management.

Skills

Insurance sales

Business communication

Relationship management

Sales training

Job description

Associate Director, Insurance Specialist

Job Details

Associate Director, Insurance Specialist Job Description Requisition Number: 61858 Job Location: Singapore, SGP Global Grade: Band 6 Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Permanent Posting Start Date: 22/09/2026 Posting End Date: 06/10/2026

Job Summary

Sales Activity & Conversion

• To work with Relationship Managers in achieving the target number of referrals and conversion.
• To train the Relationship Managers via regular training, workshops and case-studies in order to deliver on product knowledge, insurance proposition/pitch, processes and sharing of new ideas.
• Ensure sales target is met
• To generate ideas and action plan on increasing sales activity and other relevant financial drivers.

Key Responsibilities

Business

Customer Management

• To conduct fact, find, insurance need analysis for clients and ensure prompt advise and solutions are offered to clients.
• To ensure a systematic review process for existing policyholders.
• To ensure that customer enquiries are promptly attended to.

Processes

Sales Reporting and Management

• To provide prompt and regular reporting of leads, sales activity and pipeline cases.
• Work closely with internal partners (e.g. Relationship Managers, fiduciary, and credit teams) and external partners (e.g. insurance providers) on case management.

People and Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners

Governance

Compliance

• To comply with all applicable money laundering prevention procedures and in particular, report any suspicious activity to the Transaction Monitoring Unit.
• To ensure compliance with all regulations and controls as set by the Bank and external regulatory authorities.
• To adhere strictly to the FAA & good practices guideline, include attending weekly/monthly coaching, meeting & obtaining the required CPD hours.

Regulatory and 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.

Key stakeholders

• Priority International Banking Relationship Managers & Team Managers, Insurance Providers.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 7+ years of relevant sales experience.
• M5, M5A, M8, M8A, M9, M9A and HI certification is preferred.
• Experience in Insurance sales is preferred.
• Business Communication

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Insurance concepts and Product knowledge
• Good command in Business Communication 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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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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