Head, Talent Acquisition,China

Standard Chartered View all jobs

  • Shanghai
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 30 days ago
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Formulate resourcing strategy to attract and onboard talents into the Bank's businesses and operations. Using data and metrics insights to help refine approach and tactics to meet hiring mandates.Business
Drive business and functional people plan to deliver talent agenda to help the franchise achieve it's business goals.Processes
Ensure the resourcing processes, policies and standards are in compliance.People & Talent
  • Build and manage a high performing team, managing employee engagement, development, succession and retention day-to-day
  • Drive and embed a strong performance and risk management culture through inspiring, motivating, and rigorous management discipline
  • Drive the right team behaviors, including global collaboration and customer focus
  • Set clear direction for the team and implement a robust tracking, reporting and escalation framework that includes clear metrics, KPI reporting and analysis, and formal reviews:
  • Run frequent commit calls to manage delivery progress (sourcing, selection, offers, hit rates etc.) and resolve issues
  • Analyze dashboards, metrics and reporting to track progress, identify issues etc.
  • Provide regular updates to key business and HR stakeholders, promptly escalating key issues
  • Achieve strategic people requirements, ensuring the organization structure and people programs are appropriate for the delivery of plans and targets e.g. resources fully aligned to the coverage model, clear lines of control and delegations of authority in place, etc.
  • Build the bench-strength of the team. Provide ongoing coaching and ensure the right development interventions are deployed, with all team members achieving the required certifications
Build the country hub into a center of operational excellence, setting the standards for other to follow, sharing best practice, knowledge and expertiseRisk Management
Ensure adherence to the Bank's defined risk management frameworksRegulatory & 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, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  • Comply with CBIRC mandates
Key stakeholders
Country Management Team and EXCO Members plus all business and functional headsSkills and Experience
  • Has held a senior management position in delivering resourcing solutions in a large, international, blue-chip business, with demonstrated success in:
  • Placing senior-level candidates
  • Leading end to end Resourcing processes
  • Building attraction strategies to deliver new hires cost effectively and within budget
  • Preferred supplier management
  • Proven leader with demonstrated strengths and experience in coaching, managing and engaging a team to achieve superior performance
  • Leading change, with strong project management experience
  • Experience in working across a complex matrix organization - strong consultative and negotiation skills combined with the proven ability to manage internal politics
  • Proven delivery capabilities - track record of multi-tasking, prioritizing, and setting and achieving deadlines (both short and long term)
  • Results-oriented. Proven ability to manage numerous conflicting priorities, adapt rapidly and work well under high pressure in a fast-paced environment, while providing a quality customer service
  • Gravitas and credibility - proven ability to effectively influence, challenge and guide stakeholders at senior levels
  • Significant relationship management builds and maintains strong relationships across a wide range of demanding and fast-paced stakeholders (internal and external) and harnesses these relationships in the best way possible
  • Strong in operational control. Proven ability to see the 'big picture', whilst simultaneously having close attention detail and ensuring effective operational delivery
  • Proactive, problem-solving approach combined with a proven ability to challenge in order to deliver business results
  • Good business judgement and commercially minded:
  • Proven success in prioritizing extensive and complex sets of issues, assessing risk and appropriate levels of return
  • Proven experience in handling budgets
  • Analytical skills and a proactive, problem-solving approach
  • Pragmatic, customer-focused approach
  • Excellent (verbal and written) English communication skills
  • Flexibility and a preparedness to 'roll up his / her sleeves' when necessary to get the job done
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant employment legislation (e.g. data protection) for jurisdiction
  • Knowledge and experience of HR information systems (PeopleSoft preferred)
  • Experience in and / or good general knowledge of the Financial Services industry and job market
  • Working knowledge of the Bank's client groups, structure and operations
  • M&A experience
  • Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.
  • Applicants with Banking Diploma part 1 & 2 are encouraged to apply
  • To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages. We welcome conversations on flexible working.
Qualifications
  • Talent markets
  • Resourcing processes
  • Resourcing operational excellence
About Standard CharteredWe'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 offerIn 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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