Employee Relations ER Manager

Job Description

Your mission As an Employee Relations Manager at Standard Chartered Bank, reporting to the Head of ER for Europe & Americas, you will be an integral part of the Europe & Americas team and support the Banks ER mission to drive a more inclusive and high-performing culturethrough the effective resolution of sensitive and complex people-related matters. What you will do

• You will develop strong relationships with your stakeholders and advise and manage Employee relations activities under our six pillars: driving positive behaviour; addressing concerns and resolving conflict; supporting high performance; optimising organisationalchange and structure; managing industrial relations; and fostering sustainable working.
• You will also get involved in and sometimes drive ad hoc ER projects for the Region and contribute where requested to the Global ER agenda and other ER leadership team initiatives.
• You will build your network and establish your credibility as a trusted and collaborative ER expert and liaise closely with other teams such as Employee Advocacy colleagues (including D&I, Wellbeing & employee listening; International Mobility, Resourcing,Performance, Reward & Benefits, Employment Legal, Shared Investigation Services & Compliance etc).
• You will work with existing Standards, processes, templates and provide your ideas to identify any ongoing opportunities for improvement or simplification.
• You will always ensure we adhere to the regulatory and legal framework as well as internal governance and controls.
• You will upskill, train and brief for HR partners, People Leaders etc on ER related topics.
• You will also work with ER Operations to analyse and share data insights with key HR and business stakeholders to identify trends.
• Ultimately you will be supporting our colleagues and our People leaders which helps the Bank to meet its business ambitions.

About you

• You are passionate about employee relations and already have a proven ER track record
• You have a strong client focused mindset and excellent UK employment law knowledge and FCA/PRA regulations (employment law qualification, FS experience and CIPD membership are advantageous).
• You are a great communicator and can demonstrate high resilience.
• You have strong influencing skills and adept at dealing with difficult or complex situations.
• You have high standards and wish to join a collaborative and high performing team in a brilliant organisation.

*Possibility to work on a 4-day working week contract. About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 opportunitiesto grow and do better than before. If youre 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 cant wait to see the talents you canbring 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, youll 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
• Be 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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 sortsof 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressedto an important stage of our recruitment process.

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