Senior Manager, Executive Compensation

The Senior Manager, Executive Compensation acts as a trusted internal advisor on the design and administration of compensation for the Group’s executive directors. The role is responsible for managing shareholder engagement on remuneration matters, supporting the Group Remuneration Committee, and ensuring accurate and transparent external disclosures. This position plays a critical role in aligning executive reward structures with corporate strategy, regulatory expectations, shareholder interests, and UK corporate governance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisory: Act as an internal consultant on the design of new directors’ remuneration policies and operation of the current policy, with responsibility to develop scenarios to support decision making by the Group Remuneration Committee. Work with the Group’s Remuneration Committee external advisors to test and develop new ideas/scenarios for consideration by the Group Remuneration Committee.
• Business & Market Insight: Maintain a strong understanding of the Group’s business strategy, financial performance, and the broader macroeconomic environment. Monitor regulatory, governance, and market developments, assessing implications for executive compensation strategy and disclosure.
• Shareholder & Committee Engagement: Lead the shareholder engagement programme for remuneration, including planning engagement cycles, preparing materials, and analysing potential voting outcomes. Prepare high-quality papers and recommendations for the Group Remuneration Committee, covering executive remuneration proposals, performance outcomes, and long-term incentive plan (LTIP) assessments.
• Incentive Plan Oversight: Oversee executive annual incentive scorecards and LTIP measures, validating performance outcomes at the end of performance cycles. Conduct annual and ad hoc benchmarking exercises for executive directors and senior management, leveraging external market data where appropriate.
• Reporting & Disclosure: Draft the Directors’ Remuneration Report and related executive remuneration disclosures for annual reporting and regulatory announcements. Prepare remuneration-related director confirmations in collaboration with Global Corporate Secretariat.
• Governance & Risk Management: Establish and maintain robust processes to ensure compliance with UK governance standards and external audit requirements. Identify, assess, and manage risks associated with executive compensation design, disclosure, and administration. Ensure full compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal codes of conduct.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, supporting capability development and continuous improvement. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence within the reward function.

Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise and knowledge of FTSE remuneration, UK corporate governance, and shareholder expectations for executive compensation.
• Experience of shareholder engagement and remuneration-related investor communications.
• In-depth knowledge of UK corporate governance and remuneration regulations.
• Experience preparing board-level committee papers and public remuneration disclosures.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities.
• Strong experience managing long-term incentive plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required, postgraduate qualification desirable.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal).
• Professional qualifications in reward, governance, or finance (advantageous).

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.