Specialist, Employee Relations

**Job Summary**
- Shaping behaviours and culture through protecting the Bank against employee-related risk by:
- Ensuring that the relationship between the Bank and its employees is managed appropriately within the Group ER framework underpinned by clear procedures, policies and ultimately by relevant employment law.
- Providing leadership to the ER process suite in the country e.g. disciplinary management, grievance management, redundancy, performance improvement planning and resolving low severity matter via advisory
- Effectively managing key external stakeholder relationships with employee representative bodies, legal firms and local labour ministries (where relevant locally).

**Key Responsibilities**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
Execution of the ER agenda in line with Group strategy- Executing the country ER strategy in alignment with the global ER strategy, country business needs and the HR collective agenda in Singapore
- Accountable for ensuring all ER products are delivered effectively in Singapore in line with Group policies and local law and legislation.
- Effective management of employee representative bodies (e.g. works councils, unions etc) e.g. effective CBA negotiation (where applicable).
- Support HRBPs and People Leaders with restructuring and redundancy projects, and provide advice on complex / high risk redundancy situations.
- Provide suitable insights into employee engagement levels to the Country Head of HR, Country/Regional Management Groups (C/RMGs).
- Support the execution of a performance-driven culture in businesses in Singapore

Translation of country legislation and regulation into pragmatic actions for country/regional teams- Build external networks and remain up to date with legislative change and developments and be viewed both internally and externally as an expert in the ER field
- Collaborate with Employment Law and Compliance and/or external legal counsel for advice and decision on interpretation of local laws and regulations and ER policies, procedures, cases in-country.

Defining and managing employee-related risk- Identify, assess, and monitor country ER process risks in line with overall operational risk management framework.
- Create and implement suitable actions to mitigate identified risks.
- Understand current local employment and discrimination law in local and international jurisdictions, together with employee trends to anticipate and minimise employee related risks.
- Oversight and management of any relevant country Group Policy and process dispensations
- Lead the resolution of disciplinary and grievance cases

Education/Training of HR and Line Managers- Proactively educate and update HRBPs and People Leaders on ER processes and recent employment law legislative changes and developments
- Provide relevant advice and guidance to HRBPs and People Leaders in relation to ER issues and products.

**Skills and Experience**

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**

**Internal**
- Country Management Groups
- Regional ER team
- Country HRBPs/ Head of HR
- Employment Legal and Compliance
- Regional / Country PRB (Performance, Reward and Benefits)
- Country / Regional SIS

**External**
- Employee Representative Bodies
- Unions
- Employment/Labour government departments
- Legal firms

**Essential**
- Role model and champion the Bank’s values and behaviors
- 6+ years' work experience as an ER specialist or HRBP
- Generalist HR skills in addition to ER skills would be a preference
- An appreciation of the local legislative and regulatory landscape
- Strong networker and organizational influencer
- Commercially astute
- Strong collaboration

**Desirable**
- Experience in a Bank or Financial Institution

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Organisational Change Management
- HR Legal and Regulatory environment
- Employee Relations
- HR consulting
- Confidential investigations

**About Standard Chartered**
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