Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Summary

Responsible for developing appropriate Talent Acquisition strategies and managing the end-to-end resourcing process to deliver agreed targets for roles assigned, ensuring that the right candidates are recruited, at the right time, at the right price.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with the business, the role holder will provide both consultative and transactional talent acquisition support to deliver a comprehensive and value added service, ensuring all talent acquisition activities are aligned to the policies and procedures
• Meet turnaround times and quality standards regarding end to end hiring and talent acquisition related activities in line with global standards and service level agreement
• Manage cross functional / Talent Acquisition projects, as required.
• Provide ad hoc support to the Head, Talent Acquisition, Pakistan as required
• Responsible for sourcing for roles, ensuring direct sourcing channels
• Ensure delivery (at the right quality & cost) of direct sourcing targets for the country, design and deliver sourcing strategies and solutions that meet business needs, generate diverse pools of applicants and control cost bases
• Identify ways to build the candidate experience as they navigate the Talent Acquisition process in-country, sharing best practice regionally and globally, as appropriate
• Ensure the Group’s selection products and processes are thoroughly embedded across the country, improving effectiveness of selection and minimizing risks
• Drive culture change to embed greater hiring manager discipline in all aspects of the talent acquisition process e.g. ensuring hiring managers are up skilled in short listing and recording interview notes, ensuring prompt provision of feedback etc
• Supervise completion of pre-employment checks with external vendors, ensuring candidates provide required information in a timely manner, regularly monitoring the third party’s completion of all pre-employment checks in line with SLAs and Bank policy, flagging all issues and delays in a timely manner for onward resolution
• Effectively and efficiently use the hiring portal (myRecruiting) to manage the end to end talent acquisition process for lateral hiring, recording all relevant details (e.g. applicant contact, interview times and dates) and keeping the system up to date at all time
• Review dashboards and other reports to identify and action any necessary system ‘housekeeping’ or compliance requirements e.g. archiving and deleting applications as required, removing duplicate JRs, closing JRs et
• Escalate any issues and risks, as appropriate so that they can be appropriately tracked and manage
• 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.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Position holder must posses at least 8 years of relevant experience with a specialized skillset in talent acquisition/ resourcing preferably in the Banking industry and headhunting agencies.
• Has the ability and experience to source quality candidates in-line with business requirements, conduct interviews, prepare competitive salary packages and has the skills to negotiate compensation packages with the candidates
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written & verbal)
• Experience in using ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) and HR databases also proficient in MS Excel, MS Powerpoint as well
• Strong organizational and time management skills
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelors degree is mandatory, however, Masters degree holders will be given preference especially if its in Human Resources
• Certifications in HR will be an added advantage
  
  

Competencies

Action Oriented

Collaborates

Customer Focus

Nimble Learning

Courage

Instills Trust

Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements

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.