Associate Director, WRB Communications

Standard Chartered Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank seeks an Associate Director for WRB Communications in Singapore. This role involves developing and executing internal and external communications strategies, ensuring compliance, and enhancing creativity in content creation. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in the banking sector, exceptional communication skills, and a flair for impactful storytelling.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Time-off including annual leave and sabbatical

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in banking or regulated financial institutions.
• Expert communicator with superior writing skills across various formats.
• Experience in corporate communications, events, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and execute WRB internal communications plan.
• Position WRB Communications as a centre of excellence.
• Support business operations and achieve business goals.

Skills

Communications

Storytelling

Creative Content Creation

Digital Media

Planning

Tools

Photoshop

Job description

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Area of interest: Marketing, Brand & Communications

• The Associate Director, WRB Comms, is responsible for delivering the development and execution of the WRB internal communications plan, supporting external communications, and ensuring compliance with the Bank’s communications policy across all WRB communications.:
• The role holder must be passionate about communications, storytelling, full of creative and innovative ideas, and have a design flair for creating impactful content.
• Be an expert communicator with superior writing skills who can work seamlessly across content formats, from articles to social-media copy, video and infographics.
• Have a sound understanding of best practice in communications, in the financial sector and beyond.
• Be well-organised and a fast learner, with experience of working on complex, timebound, multiple-stakeholder projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Help position WRB Communications as a centre of excellence for best-in-class communications, keeping an eye on latest industry/digital media trends to assist in bringing content innovation into internal as well as external Communications.
• Execute the internal and support external global WRB business communications strategy
• Work closely with the Group and Country CABM teams to ensure alignment of WRB and CABM communications objectives and activities
• Identify opportunities which directly support business operations and the achievement of business goals
• Elevate creativity and design quality for internal/external communications
• Help to ensure continuous improvement in WRB Communications processes, including planning, tracking, submissions, logistics, performance measurement.
• Take ownership of internal communications content of WRB MT, support with key milestone draft and submission process.
• Look for opportunities to learn from colleagues, and join internal and external training programs and events to build and maintain excellent content-creation skills
• Support WRB Communications in adhering to the Group’s operational risk management framework
• Exemplary conduct and commitment to ethical practices and compliance

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

• 6+ years of experience in a banking / regulated financial institution or equivalent such as fintech Should be passionate about communications, digital media, storytelling, creative content creation and have a design flair for creating impactful content
• Expert communicator with superior writing skills who can work seamlessly across content formats, from articles to social-media copy, video and infographics
• Strong planning skills and attention to detail
• Experience in corporate communications, events, publishing and/or journalism
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders, including senior management and third-party vendors, across multiple locations
• Experience working with external agencies (Content, PR, Design production) preferred.
• Experience in content production

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Digital Media
• Content creation
• Corporate communication
• Event management
• Photoshop

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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