Talent Acquisition Partner, SCB India

Job Summary

We at Standard Chartered are searching for a skilled and experienced recruiter to support high-volume hiring, with a focus on Wealth & Retail Banking skill requirements. The role is responsible for end-to-end talent acquisition including proactive sourcing, screening and shortlisting, interview management, and stakeholder communication, ensuring candidates meet role-specific capabilities such as retail/branch banking, wealth management, affluent/HNW client coverage, customer advisory and sales, regulatory and conduct awareness, and strong service orientation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Work closely with managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company's hiring needs for every role, and to meet competitive hiring goals and expectations.
• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles, helping managers find, hire, and retain quality candidates.
• Foster high-touch relationships using a database of qualified candidates to choose from when positions become open.
• Partner with recruiting team and senior managers to design, refine, and implement innovative recruitment strategies.
• Remain active with job boards, social networks, and platforms for finding quality candidates, and create and post job descriptions and announcements.
Business
• Develop relationships with managers to build awareness of their departments, hiring needs, and job specifications
• Write and post job descriptions on relevant platforms, especially social media
• Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and execute innovative strategies to find quality candidates and prospect for new business
• Screen resumes and CVs and manage job candidates throughout hiring process, from interview preparation to final-offer negotiation
• Maintain database of candidate records, including active and passive prospects, hired and fired employees, and other designations
• Provide coaching and guidance to junior-level recruiting staff.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Valued Behaviours 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
• Stakeholders for a recruiter typically include:
• Hiring Managers: They work closely with recruiters to define job requirements and make final hiring decisions.
• Candidates: Potential employees who are actively seeking job opportunities and interacting with recruiters.
• Human Resources (HR) Department: Collaborates with recruiters on onboarding, compliance, and employee relations.
• Senior Management/Executives: They set strategic hiring goals and approve budgets for recruitment.
• Department Heads/Team Leads: They provide specific insights into the skills and qualifications needed for their teams.
• Recruitment Agencies/Consultants: External partners that may assist in sourcing and screening candidates.
• Current Employees: They might participate in referral programs or provide input on the hiring process.
• IT Department: Supports the recruitment process with necessary technology and systems.
• Legal and Compliance Teams: Ensure that recruitment practices adhere to labor laws and company policies.
• Marketing/Communications Team: Helps in employer branding and promoting job openings.
• These stakeholders play various roles in the recruitment process, from defining job requirements to ensuring compliance and supporting the overall hiring strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Human Resources Consulting
• Influencing Through Expertise
• Business Intelligence
• Effective Communications

Qualifications

8-12 years of experience in recruitment

• Understanding of Wealth & Retail Banking product suites and role requirements, including deposits (CASA/TD), secured and unsecured lending, cards, bancassurance/insurance, and investments/wealth products (mutual funds, structured notes, discretionary/advisory).
• Awareness of product governance and suitability concepts relevant to WRB hiring (e.g., KYC/AML, conduct risk, sales quality, client suitability/needs-based advisory, and local regulatory expectations).
• Experience sourcing profiles across WRB product, sales, and service roles (e.g., relationship managers, branch sales, wealth specialists, product managers, contact centre, operations), with strong market mapping and competitor intelligence.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
• Sound knowledge of database management, and internet search methods
• Familiarity with job boards like Naukri & LinkedIn
• Proven success in conducting interviews using various methods (phone, video, email, in-person)
• Multitasker, team player, and flexible to changing business trends.
• Ability to manage difficult conversations with ease.
• Familiarity with the entire recruitment cycle and various sourcing techniques.
• Effective time management and organization skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Independent thinker, quick decision maker, and problem solver.
• A quick learner with an understanding of business needs and alignment with candidate skills.
• An entrepreneurial mindset is preferred.

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.