Director, Group Partnerships

Job ID: 40145

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 24 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

Key responsibilities:

• Support Global Head of Partnership and Unsecured product with planning and implementing partnership development strategies
• Full end-to-end ownership and project management of the critical phases of the Deal Cycle (Strategy, Structuring, Negotiations, and Closure) including
• Creating a competitive commercial deal structure that maximizes the value of the opportunity and ensure alignment with the CPBB business objectives
• Maintain liaison between the Bank and the potential partner(s), during the Deal CycleCollaborate extensively across internal and external stakeholders both at the Group level and also at the Country level
• Lead partner negotiations and legal contract discussions / negotiations
• Build business models and financial projections and identify key risk issues
• Build business case documentations and engagement with internal and external stakeholder
• Lead representation in the Swarm onboarding and work closely with the tech teams
• Support in central project management to ensure timely project delivery
• Ensure bank's governance, risk and compliances policies/processes are duly followed and adherent to for the partnerships.

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key Skill Sets

• Be an active problem solver.
• Take ownership in end-to-end processes and key initiatives
• Actively contribute to new ideas and propose new ways of working with partners.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Undergraduate or above in finance, business, engineering or science degree.
• 10 years of strong project management and delivery experience
• Experience in leading tech teams/projects.
• Experience in building a digital business with digital product solutioning and acquisition.
• Familiar with digital platforms and digital acquisition technology
• Familiar in financial product solutioning and capability build-up
• Financial product experience in Lending, Payments, SME, Wealth, and Insurance
• Comfortable in working with complex stakeholder situations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working against tight timelines

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.