Employee Relations Specialist, UAE

Job Summary

As a Standard Chartered Employee Relations (ER) Specialist, you’ll be responsible for implementing the ER agenda in alignment with our Group strategy. You will play a pivotal role in fostering trust between our organisation and our employees by aligning organisational objectives with employee needs and contributing to the development of effective human resources practices.

About Global Support Functions

Global Support Functions (GSF) is at the heart of professional services, core systems, and processes at the Bank. This includes client care, financial services, risk, technology, cyber security and forensics, regulatory compliance, and operations

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the country Employee Relations (ER) strategy by following global objectives, local business needs, and compliance with Group policies and local laws.
• Manage employee representative bodies, such as unions, and negotiate collective bargaining agreements when applicable.
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate employee-related risks, translate local legislation into practical strategies, and ensure compliance through collaboration with legal and compliance teams.
• Provide guidance to HR Business Partners and People Leaders on complex ER issues, including restructuring, redundancy, and disciplinary or grievance cases, while promoting a performance-driven culture.
• Train HR and leaders on ER processes and legal changes and provide insights into employee engagement levels to support decision-making by regional and country leadership teams.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and relationship-building abilities; market awareness; adaptability; commitment to ethics and exemplary conduct.
• Experience as an ER specialist or Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), with generalist HR skills and knowledge of local legislative and regulatory landscapes.
• Expertise in change management, HR legal and regulatory environments, employee relations, consulting, and confidential investigations.
• Experience in banking or financial institutions, commercial acumen, and strong collaboration skills.
• Motivated, team-oriented, thrives in an international environment, and is effective at identifying and mitigating risks.
  
  

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.