Talent Acquisition Partner, CIB, U.K & Europe

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition Partner, CIB, UK & Europe would be accountable for the UK & Europe CIB Talent Acquisition portfolio with a laser sharp focus on hiring for high value seats at the Executive Director and Director level with the client experience at the front and centre of every hire. They will be responsible for the day to day operations with a key focus on our sourcing strategy including building market maps for potential candidate pools and alignment with our global TA strategy for high value seats. They will ensure that we have a strong collaborative partnership with our key Vendor partners and work as ambassadors for the CIB business to all internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the main relationship holder within Talent Acquisition (TA) for CIB managers in the UK & Europe and responsible for executing on Specialist hires for key stakeholders. This may include other key high value roles that are less senior in nature, but highly visible and of great importance to the overall business plan. By working alongside TA product counterparts in other parts of the globe, you will provide talent intelligence in order to drive business performance.
• Increase the profile of TA, developing a strong network of internal and external stakeholders (including senior managers in the business, HR, candidates, suppliers).
• Deliver high levels of sponsorship, engagement, and collective understanding.
• Increase stakeholder awareness of what TA offers and needs in return.
• Monitor and manage third party supplier performance against SLAs, driving performance and resolving issues.
• Create close, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders across HR (including generalists, operations, other product specialists, HR Change Management, HR Service Delivery, Analytics, Reward, Talent & Learning etc.), who will provide key expertise and insights required to execute talent strategies for designated Business / Function.
• Support the Country TA teams in their execution of hiring for designated Business / Function, playing an overall coordination and escalation role. Increase direct sourcing, and lead global sourcing campaigns as required, establishing priorities, budgets and channels, and driving / monitoring progress.
• Drive more diverse talent acquisition pools, and greater internal, cross functional and cross border talent moves.
• Accountable for the quantity and quality of talent acquisition data held within internal databases for designated Business / Function.
• Provide insights to drive and ensure relevant talent data is captured; leadership forecasting and benchmarking; labour market assessments, organisational profiling and competitor activity analysis, etc.
• Use data and factual evidence to drive and underpin day-to-day actions and decision-making (including identifying opportunities for improvement and driving for gap resolutions).

Skills and Experience

• Extensive senior hiring focused experience with full project life-cycle recruiting in a fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience working for a search firm coupled with in-house experience is preferred.
• A strong and credible track record of hiring for the CIB business with expertise in Financial markets, Coverage and Transaction Banking.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with senior level managers.
• Extensive experience of recruitment at an operational and strategic level (in-house preferred, or search firm / consultancy).
• Knowledge and experience of HR information systems (PeopleSoft and/or Taleo 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.

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.

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