Job ID: 38626
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Marketing, Brand & Communications
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 12 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

This role is responsible for implementing and executing the Bank’s communications strategy to build and protect the Bank’s reputation through media pitching, editorial content development, internal communication channels management, project management and coordination of events.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Singapore Comms head to pro-active delivery and pitching story angles that would appeal to both internal and external audience that are aligned with priorities in the annual plan, build profile of businesses in Singapore and globally, with a focus on strategy, financial results, business capabilities and achievements, thought leadership, management expertise, community initiatives and employee engagement.
• Manage client communications, including with business teams - HR, Community, corporate & investment bank, and wealth and retail bank.
• Work with the communications team and related stakeholders in Singapore to ensure alignment in approach to communications and implementation of marketing events or projects.
• Build profile of the Brand and the Singapore management team, the business segments strategy, HR-driven focus, and bank-wide employee initiatives.
• Daily media and sentiment monitoring and reporting
• Manage, design and develop content for internal communication channels.

SKILLS

• Diplomacy and tact
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Ability to operate with the highest integrity and discretion.
• Critical thinking skills to exercise judgement and continuously looking for better and more effective ways of working.
• Good responsiveness and the ability to think on his/her feet.
• Ability to apply creative thinking.
• Ability to respond calmly and effectively in high-pressure situations or environment.
• Stakeholder management skills
• Planning and organisation skills
• A positive, engaging, and professional attitude and persona.

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

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Media Relations
• Crisis Management
• Corporate Communications Management
• Social Media management
• Strategic Project Management

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Singapore Comms head to pro-active delivery and pitching story angles that would appeal to both internal and external audience that are aligned with priorities in the annual plan, build profile of businesses in Singapore and globally, with a focus on strategy, financial results, business capabilities and achievements, thought leadership, management expertise, community initiatives and employee engagement.
• Manage client communications, including with business teams - HR, Community, corporate & investment bank, and wealth and retail bank.
• Work with the communications team and related stakeholders in Singapore to ensure alignment in approach to communications and implementation of marketing events or projects.
• Build profile of the Brand and the Singapore management team, the business segments strategy, HR-driven focus, and bank-wide employee initiatives.
• Daily media and sentiment monitoring and reporting
• Manage, design and develop content for internal communication channels