Lead HR Advisor - UAE National Preferred

Job Summary

As a Senior HR Advisor at Standard Chartered, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the people agenda across the organisation by providing strategic, insightful, and impactful HR advisory services. This role is designed for an experienced professional who thrives in dynamic environments, delivering excellence in leadership development, talent management, and colleague engagement. You will partner closely with People Leaders to enable them to foster high-performing teams, drive key people initiatives, and cultivate an inclusive culture that reflects the Banks values and priorities. Your expertise will support accelerating talent growth and enhancing the employee experience, helping to build a motivated and agile workforce that aligns with Standard Chartereds vision and business objectives.

This position offers a unique opportunity to influence at a senior level, ensure alignment of HR strategies with business goals, and contribute meaningfully to the continued success and differentiation of our organisation within the financial services sector.

Key Responsibilities

In your role, you will be responsible for providing proactive, high-impact HR advisory support to People Leaders across various levels of the bank, ensuring that HR interventions are aligned with both local and global strategies. You will act as a trusted partner, delivering constructive guidance on leadership development, talent management, and employee relations to foster a positive, productive working environment.

• Provide expert advice and support on low to medium employee relations matters, collaborating closely with Employee Relations teams to resolve issues diplomatically and effectively.
• Drive initiatives that enhance leadership capabilities, helping People Leaders develop skills to manage teams inclusively and drive performance.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of HR processes to ensure simplicity, scalability, and alignment with organisational objectives.
• Monitor and analyse people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, using insights to recommend data-informed HR solutions.
• Support the design and delivery of targeted programmes that advance talent development, succession planning, and career progression, particularly for high-potential employees.
• Collaborate across multiple HR Centres of Excellence and business units to ensure seamless execution of the People Plan and strategic HR projects.
• Champion a culture of accountability and ambition, encouraging People Leaders and colleagues to embed these values into their daily work and interactions.
  
  

Skills And Experience

The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive blend of HR expertise and a consultative approach to partner effectively with senior stakeholders, navigating complex and sensitive situations with confidence and integrity.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver proactive and impactful HR advisory services, with a strong focus on leadership development, talent management, and sustaining high performance.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional HR teams to design and deliver integrated HR initiatives that support organisational goals.
• A talent for recognising systemic people challenges and implementing scalable, sustainable interventions.
• Proven track record in engaging and supporting high-potential talent to foster their growth and retention within the organisation.
• Skilled in managing a diverse portfolio of HR programmes and projects, ensuring timely and effective delivery aligned with global and local priorities.
• Expertise in partnering on complex employee relations matters with strong judgement and ethical decision-making.
• Proficient in leveraging HR analytics to provide insights that drive continuous improvement and enable strategic workforce planning.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and coaching skills to influence at all organisational levels.
• Ability to simplify and optimise HR processes to enhance efficiency and user experience across the business.
  
  

Qualifications

Candidates should possess a robust foundation in human resources with demonstrated expertise in advisory roles that require influencing senior leaders and driving tangible people outcomes.

• Significant experience delivering HR advisory and consulting services within a complex, matrixed organisational setting.
• Deep knowledge of talent management frameworks, performance management systems, and effective employee relations practices.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior People Leaders, fostering trust and partnership.
• Strong project management capabilities with experience leading organisational change initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and coaching skills enabling the facilitation of difficult conversations and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Analytical mindset with an aptitude for interpreting HR data and metrics to inform strategy and decision making.
• Professional HR qualifications (e.g., CIPD, SHRM) are highly desirable and considered a strong advantage.
  
  

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 opportunities to 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 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, 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
• 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.

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