Head, PRB, Americas, Europe, Middle East & Africa

The Head of Performance, Reward, and Benefits (PRB), Europe, Americas, Middle East & Africa plays a critical role in shaping and delivering performance, reward, and benefits strategies across key geographical hubs. Working closely with senior business leaders and HR stakeholders, this role ensures that reward and performance frameworks align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and Standard Chartered’s valued behaviours and is pivotal in driving a consistent and ambitious agenda across multiple regions. This role supports the development of a high-performance culture by providing expert advice, governance, and the effective implementation of PRB programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted adviser on performance, reward, and benefits (PRB) matters to Country Management Teams and their direct teams.
• Build strong relationships with Country HR Heads and Management Teams to lead the reward agenda.
• Participate in the development and review of PRB products, leading communications and implementation across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa markets.
• Oversee the development of fair pay and wellbeing strategies and targeted interventions.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of reward policies, programs, and processes.
• Provide reward-related advice for merger and acquisition activities.
• Identify challenges and opportunities, forming agile teams to resolve issues.

Skills And Experience

• Experience in performance, reward and benefits in the UK and US; exposure to Africa and the UAE preferred.
• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements and reward practices in regulated environments.
• Strong expertise in performance management, reward, and benefits design and implementation.
• Proven ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels within complex, multinational environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities across business and HR functions.
• Proven people leadership and team management experience.

Qualifications

• Professional or relevant postgraduate management qualification.
• Relevant experience in PRB or HR at both operational and strategic levels.
• Strong team management, leadership, and interpersonal skills with experience influencing senior-level stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, including clear oral, written, and presentation abilities.

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.