Job Summary
We are looking for a dynamic and organised professional to support the Early Careers Programme agenda for our bank globally. The Global Early Careers Development Pathways Lead is responsible for designing and integrating skills-aligned development pathways that translate business capability needs into structured, end-to-end development journeys across Early Careers populations.
The role ensures that development experiences are not built in isolation, but flow seamlessly from pre-joining through early career stages and connect coherently into broader enterprise development journeys across bands and career stages.
Working closely with business stakeholders, People Capability, and Talent Management, the role delivers the programme and converts strategic workforce objectives into scalable development pathway architecture that drives role readiness, productivity, and long-term talent progression.
The role combines project management, programmatic delivery stakeholder engagement across business leaders, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and People Capability teams globally.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
- The role designs structured development pathways aligned to business objectives, enterprise skills frameworks, and role readiness requirements across all Early Careers segments, ensuring seamless flow from pre-joining through early career development and integration with broader enterprise development journeys across bands, avoiding siloed program design through connected pathway architecture.
- The role creates coherent, engaging, and scalable development journeys that blend formal development modules, applied business projects, experiential development, coaching and mentoring, exposure opportunities, and skills assessments to accelerate readiness and long-term growth.
- The role works in close collaboration with People Capability teams to enable development delivery and content execution, with Talent Management teams to align pathways with enterprise development frameworks, with Campus Engagement teams to connect pre-hire development with on-program journeys, and with program leads across segments to embed pathways consistently, while maintaining strong design governance and outcome ownership.
- The role monitors the effectiveness of development pathways through readiness, performance, and progression metrics, continuously evolving pathway design based on business feedback, skills shifts, and workforce needs, while driving standardisation with appropriate flexibility for local market application.
- Implement adoption of development plans and assessment criteria for successful programme completion
- Identify and implement programme improvements through effective partnering with People capability & Programme Lead
- Drive & implement EC programme improvements
- Deliver EC programmes aligned to agreed measures of success
- Monitor agreed KPIs / ROI measures, providing analysis and areas of improvement
- Deliver hiring manager / business support and training
- Deliver EC programme content at events and training output
- Collaborate with C&C teams, global early careers team and global HR teams to align on consistent frameworks, value propositions, and governance models
Business
- The role partners closely with business leaders and workforce planning teams to identify critical skills, capabilities, and experiences required for priority roles, map skills progression from entry-level through early career stages, and define development outcomes directly linked to role performance and productivity, ensuring development pathways remain commercially relevant and future-focused.
- Collaborate with business leaders, Talent and People Capability functions, Lateral Recruitment, Diversity and Inclusion teams, and country HR teams to align outcomes
- Build an understanding of business priorities and align the early careers program to meet long-term business needs, focusing on delivery of a structured, programmatic approach that supports workforce evolution and organizational strategy.
Processes
- Hands-on delivery of the programme
- Monitor and track success metrics, including reduced attrition, increased performance, high engagement, and accelerated career progression, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Support in overseeing structured programmatic journeys, including induction, assignments, development programs, and performance tracking, in partnership with People Capability, Talent team and business.
- Identify suitable vendors to provide training and upskilling programme content
People & Talent
Act As The Secondary Interface Across Key Stakeholder Groups
- Carers & Capability
- HR Business Partners across all business functions
- Business stakeholders
- Fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture that reflects the bank's values and vision for early careers talent. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
Risk Management
- Ensure effective identification, management, monitoring and reporting of risks is undertaken in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in a way that is consistent with the authority and responsibilities of the role
- Effective understanding of operational risks and compliance with all applicable internal policies, external laws and regulation
Governance
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role
- Track the effectiveness of the team's governance, oversight and controls and, if necessary, propose/implement changes in these areas
- Use data and reporting to track success measures and impact of early careers programmes ensuring appropriate oversight of strategic and operational effectiveness metrics that are used to ensure a high performing culture and vision for early careers talent.
- Engage with relevant audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon
- Ensure that all approved HR investments and capital / project expenditure are managed within the agreed enterprise project management standards
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
- Early Careers Programme Lead
- Early Careers programme sponsors and business leaders
- Colleagues participating in Early Careers recruitment, programmes and in talent pools
- Global and Country HRBPs
- Partners in HR Centre of Expertise
- Risk / compliance and control partners
- Third party strategic partners (such as training vendors where applicable)
Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Skills And Experience
- Proven experience in delivering Training & Development programmes
- Familiarity with digital development tools, platforms, and content creation is a plus.
- Familiarity with project management tools
- Proven experience in analysing data and reporting
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Development pathway architecture and curriculum design
- Skills framework mapping and capability progression modelling
- End-to-end development journey design and integration
- Business capability translation into development outcomes
- Experiential development and applied development design
- Program Management
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.
