Job ID: 39370
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 9 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

The Head of the CIB Strategic Partnership Unit will lead the centralized strategic partnerships hub for the CIB business as a central advisory and governance hub.
Acting as a trusted advisor to Transaction Banking, Global Markets, Global Banking, Research, SFR, CPM, FSS, the role holder will provide strategic challenge, expert input and governance oversight to ensure partnerships are aligned with CIB’s strategic objectives, managed within a consistent framework, and deliver measurable value.

The role is designed to enable product and business owners to originate and manage partnerships more effectively by providing:

• Centralized governance and investment oversight
• Frameworks, playbooks and best practices
• Risk, compliance and legal guidance coordination
• Cross-business opportunity sharing and capability building

CROSS POLLINATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

• Facilitate cross business sharing of partnership opportunities, insights and innovations
• Maintain the CIB Partnership Playbook with case studies, market insights, negotiation guide and legal templates.

PEOPLE & TALENT

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of experts: Build and nurture a high-performing team with a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Cultivate a forward-looking mindset: Encourage team members to stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation as well as opportunities to augment capabilities to CIB through partnership.
• Encourage a culture of collaboration: Promote a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture that aligns with the bank’s values and strategic priorities.
• Promote continuous learning: Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Optimise capacity and team structure: Responsible to review team structure/capacity plans.
• Continuous performance management: Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

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

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Embed Here for Good and Group’s brand and values in CIB Platforms and Partnerships Team
2. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Partnership and Commercial Structuring
• Financial and Business Modelling
• Market Analysis
• Risk and Compliance Management
• Performance Measurement and Analytics
• Strategic Communication & Business Case Storytelling

The role is designed to enable product and business owners to originate and manage partnerships more effectively by providing:

• Centralized governance and investment oversight
• Frameworks, playbooks and best practices
• Risk, compliance and legal guidance coordination
• Cross-business opportunity sharing and capability buildin