What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director - Group Strategy position at Standard Chartered?
Job Summary
The Group Strategy team works on the most strategic topics for the Global Management Team and the Board, liaising closely with the business, functional and geographic leads. It is a 20 member team spread across Singapore, Hong Kong and London comprising of Managing Directors, Senior Directors, Directors, Associate Directors and Associates with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. It is a truly fungible group, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who can flex across topics, markets, and problem types. We work collaboratively, supporting one another, partnering closely with internal teams and senior stakeholders, while maintaining the independence needed to challenge thinking and shape clear, impactful decisions. It’s a place for curious, adaptable thinkers who want breadth, influence, and real ownership.
As a Director within the Group Strategy team, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering the strategic agenda of the Bank and enabling the culture of innovation. Acting as a project manager and thought partner to senior leadership, you will lead strategy projects from inception through execution, manage and develop junior team members, and contribute to building the overall capability and culture of the strategy function.
The role offers exposure to the most senior stakeholders across the Group, including the Board and Executive Committee, and covers a wide range of strategic topics across businesses, geographies, and functions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
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
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
The Group Strategy team works on the most strategic topics for the Global Management Team and the Board, liaising closely with the business, functional and geographic leads. It is a 20 member team spread across Singapore, Hong Kong and London comprising of Managing Directors, Senior Directors, Directors, Associate Directors and Associates with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. It is a truly fungible group, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who can flex across topics, markets, and problem types. We work collaboratively, supporting one another, partnering closely with internal teams and senior stakeholders, while maintaining the independence needed to challenge thinking and shape clear, impactful decisions. It’s a place for curious, adaptable thinkers who want breadth, influence, and real ownership.
As a Director within the Group Strategy team, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering the strategic agenda of the Bank and enabling the culture of innovation. Acting as a project manager and thought partner to senior leadership, you will lead strategy projects from inception through execution, manage and develop junior team members, and contribute to building the overall capability and culture of the strategy function.
The role offers exposure to the most senior stakeholders across the Group, including the Board and Executive Committee, and covers a wide range of strategic topics across businesses, geographies, and functions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
- Contribute to the definition and evolution of the Group’s strategic agenda, working closely with the Board, Executive Committee, and senior management
- Analyse key industry, market, and competitive trends and translate insights into clear strategic implications
- Support leadership teams across businesses, geographies, and functions in defining strategic priorities and implementation plans
- Develop high-quality strategic materials, including presentations and recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Help drive culture of innovation by working on specific projects / actions with stakeholders in the bank as a project manager
- Identify and implement innovation practices externally and bring them back into the group
- Identify innovative ways of working within the Group Strategy team
- Lead and manage strategy projects on a day-to-day basis, ensuring high-quality delivery to time and stakeholder expectations
- Structure workplans, manage project milestones, and steer problem-solving efforts
- Typically manage project teams of 1–2 Associates and/or Associate Directors
- Collaborate closely with Managing Directors and subject-matter experts to bring the right expertise to each engagement
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders across the Bank, including business heads and functional leaders
- Build trusted relationships and act as a credible thought partner on strategic topics
- Navigate complex, multi-cultural, and matrixed environments effectively
- Strong background in financial services, with experience in:
- Top-tier strategy or management consulting and/or
- Strategy, corporate development, or transformation roles within leading banks
- Hands-on experience in enabling innovation within a large organisation
- Proven experience leading complex, project-based workstreams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and structured thinking skills
- Innovative thinking or possesses a strong understanding of innovation.
- External mindset with a well-established network within the innovation ecosystem.
- Emerging markets experience or exposure, particularly in Asia, Africa, or the Middle East
- Experience operating in large, global, and multi-cultural organisations
- Exposure to Board-level or executive-level strategy discussions
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
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.