Head, Wellbeing and Flexibility (UK, Singapore, HK)

Standard Chartered; City of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking a Head of Wellbeing and Flexibility to unify wellbeing strategies and promote flexible work practices. The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree and have strong experience in organization effectiveness and wellbeing design. This role involves leadership of a team and working with senior management to drive culture change and enhance employee wellbeing. Competitive salary and flexible working options are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in organization effectiveness, wellbeing or flexible work design.
• Professional HR certification welcome.

Responsibilities

• Review the Bank’s wellbeing strategy and integrate evolving external trends.
• Develop a data strategy to support wellbeing and flexibility.
• Lead the wellbeing and flexibility team.

Skills

Strategy development

Data literacy

Stakeholder management/influence

Change leadership

Executive presentations

Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Head, Wellbeing and Flexibility (UK, Singapore, HK)

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Key Responsibilities

• Review the Bank’s wellbeing strategy, integrating the internal context and evolving external trends
• Embed the progress and future opportunities for flexible work as part of the wellbeing strategy
• Connect the strategy to a global narrative and positioning for wellbeing and flexibility in connection with the Bank’s EVP
• Synchronise the wellbeing and flexibility approach into the different strategic layers of the Bank
• Define the strategic roadmap and book of work for wellbeing and flexibility, ensuring outcomes are translated into measurable business value
• Push the boundaries around organisational wellbeing, considering how job design can support positive wellbeing
• Develop and drive a data strategy to support wellbeing and flexible work, with a mechanism against which progress can be measured
• Continue to build external partnerships, awards and recognition related to the Bank’s wellbeing and flexibility agenda
• Act as a trusted advisor and thought leader to senior leadership to influence wellbeing and culture change
• Use data-driven insights to partner and experiment with HRBPs and Functions on targeted wellbeing and flexibility interventions, tracking value
• Leverage the Bank’s ecosystem of HR delivery mechanisms to deliver wellbeing and flexibility initiatives
• Partner with external providers on the maintenance and delivery of wellbeing initiatives
• Lead the wellbeing and flexibility team, setting appropriate tone, performance expectations and delivery support cadence
• Work through influence across specialist HR capabilities (e.g., org design, people capability, skills, strategic workforce planning)
• Actively review the team’s capacity and ensure that effort is focussed on the highest value work on the wellbeing and flexibility roadmap
• Oversee the local wellbeing champions initiatives, providing support, guidance and expertise
• Connect into the Employee Advocacy CoE management team, drawing connection into the broader portfolio of work

Skills And Experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• Proven experience working in organization effectiveness, wellbeing or flexible work design
• Skills in strategy development, data literacy, stakeholder management/influence, change leadership, executive presentations and storytelling
• Professional HR certification welcome

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 organization, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Other

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