Key Responsibilities
We are seeking an Employee Relations Manager to shape workplace behaviors and culture through championing ER's purpose and vision, managing relationships with employees within the ER and Conduct framework, ensuring all practices align with the employment laws and organizational policies.
- Advise and support business and HR stakeholdersacross Americas on various aspects, such as Redundancy and Restructuring, Performance Improvement Planning, Dispute Resolution, Disciplinary Management, Grievance Management, HR investigations, and others.
- Support and advise People Leaders with large scale restructuring and redundancy projects and provide advice on complex and high risk redundancy situationsor restructuring proposals.
- Adhere to the local and global process and standards for Disciplinary and Grievance Management including management of relevant: investigation(s), meeting(s), regulatory conduct rules or other outcomes, appeals and misconduct flagging.
- Liaise closely with colleagues inside and outside HR for example other HR Centres of Excellence such as International Mobility, Recruiting, Compensation, Employment Legal, Investigations Compliance.
- Provide underperformance management and PIP process advisory support to People leaders.
- Support the execution of country and regional Conduct agenda.
- Play relevant support and advisory role in relation to Close Personal Relationships.
- Get involved in ad hoc ER projects for the region and contribute where requested to the Global ER agenda/ER leadership team initiatives.
- Review existing documentation, letters, templates, guides, processes and identify any opportunities for improvement or simplification.
- Education and Training of HR and People Leaders.
- Support People Leaders with ER products and services.
- Liaise closely with Employment Legal and proactively update HRBPs and People Leaders on recent employment law legislative changes and developments or new internal standards or approaches.
- Support development of products, policies and processes to up-skill People Leaders in effectively dealing with ER matters.
Key stakeholders
- Country/Business Management Groups/People Leaders
- Country Head of HR/Country HRBPs
- Employment Legal
- Compliance and Investigation Services
- Country Financial Crime Compliance
- Country Compensation team
- HR Risk
- Law firms
Skills and Experience
- Manage Conduct
- Manage Risk
- Manage People
- Industry Knowledge
- Operational Risk
- Organisational Change Management
- HR Legal and Regulatory environment
- Employee Relations
- Human Resources Policies, Strategies and Environment
- HR: Policies, Standards and Procedures
- Human Resources Consulting
- Confidential Investigations
- Employment Law
- Training Solution Recommendation
Qualifications
- Employment law qualification is advantageous
- Sufficient experience in employee relations in a matrixinternational organization
- Strong understanding of employment law and best practices in the United States
- Experience in the financial services 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 thingand 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
Expected annual base pay range for the role is 150,000 USD to 190,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers
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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.
