Job Description

Job ID: 37575


Location: London, GB


Area of interest: Human Resources


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 19 Aug 2025

Job Summary

The Skills Solutions & Work Design Lead will play a critical role in ensuring that we implement a skills first approach that puts people with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time in service of the Bank's strategy. The role will be responsible for how we take a skills first approach to job design, looking at how current role constructs can be broken down into tasks and identifying specific skill requirements to complete such tasks. They will work in close partnership with HRBPs and key Business stakeholders to understand the work required to deliver on strategic priorities, and how this can be broken down into tasks and allocated based on skill requirements to deliver the work. This will then lead to close collaboration with our Organisational Design to develop a framework for how this will feed into the overall organisational design of the Bank and the impact of respective role constructs across different areas of the Business. They will be responsible for defining a consistent approach for how work within existing roles can be automated / enhanced through technology, and how components of fixed roles can be identified and reallocated to enable more project based, 'gig' working across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strong awareness and understanding of the overall Bank and individual Business strategies, and how we can ensure we deploy the skills we need to the areas of the greatest impact in service of these strategies.

Strong awareness and understanding of the markets and sectors in which the Bank operates to be able to project what the current and future of these markets and sectors looks like and how this will impact skill requirements across the Business. Responsible for defining a framework and approach for how we can deconstruct work within current jobs into individual tasks that are matched to skill requirements.

Lead themselves and team members in line with our Bankwide values of 'Better Together', 'Never Settle' and 'Do the Right Thing'. Constant adherence to the Bank's culture of high performance that drives innovation through continuous career focused conversations.

The ability to identify any risks in relation to talent process and governance and based on this information provide suggestions of how appropriate controls, measures and mitigations could be put in place to minimise impacts of any risks.

Skills and Experience

Skills Architecture Design Human Resource Consulting Human Collaboration & AI Organisational Design Talent Management Organisational Change Management

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.
www.sc.com/careers