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Driver of senior management strategy and communication at Standard Chartered, New York.
Mid-level Business Planning Manager – shape messaging and culture in a leading bank.
Job Description
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Requisition Number: 56578
Job Location: New York, USA
Global Grade: Band 5
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 26/06/2026
Posting End Date: 01/08/2026
Job Description:
Job Summary
This role will drive the strategy and support the effectiveness of Senior Management across external engagement, internal culture, and day-to-day prioritization. The primary focus is on preparing Senior Management for high-impact interactions—across clients, regulators, policymakers, industry forums, and internal audiences—ensuring clear, consistent, and well-executed messaging.
The role also plays a central part in driving internal culture and engagement, supporting Senior Management-led forums and initiatives and ensuring leadership messaging is clear and impactful across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Senior Management Messaging & Content Development
Draft and refine talking points, speeches, presentations, and briefing materials for Senior Management across a wide range of forums:
External: client engagements, industry conferences, regulatory and policy discussions
Internal: town halls, leadership discussions, and cultural initiatives
Synthesize complex inputs into clear, concise, and well-structured materials.
Ensure alignment with broader strategic priorities and corporate messaging.
External Engagement & Travel Planning
Coordinate Senior Management participation in external engagements in partnership with Communications and Marketing.
Ensure Senior Management’s time is optimized for impact, including identifying and prioritizing key stakeholder meetings (clients, partners, industry leaders), particularly when traveling
Develop structured briefing materials and engagement plans to maximize impact.
Internal Engagement & Culture
Support design and delivery of Senior Management-led internal forums, including town halls and employee engagement initiatives.
Help drive cultural initiatives in partnership with HR and Communications.
Reinforce clear and consistent messaging across employee touchpoints.
Event Planning & Coordination
Plan and execute Senior Management–led events
Ensure high standards of delivery across logistics, content, and stakeholder experience.
Coordination & Execution
Work across Communications, Marketing, HR, business teams, and the COO office to ensure alignment and timely delivery of business priorities.
Manage multiple workstreams, tracking timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
Operational Support
Support management of the Business’s budget, including tracking and reporting.
Oversee administrative processes such as vendor onboarding and approvals.
Strategic Support
Work closely with the broader COO team to ensure alignment across priorities.
Support strategic or business initiatives as needed, including developing materials and coordinating stakeholders.
Balance flexibility to contribute to broader initiatives while maintaining primary focus on communications, engagement, and execution.
Skills and Experience
Communication Excellence: Strong ability to produce clear, polished executive-level materials across a range of topics.
Business Acumen: Working knowledge of markets, banking, or transaction banking; able to quickly understand and synthesize business topics.
Judgment: Strong judgment in messaging, stakeholder prioritization, and handling sensitive information.
Execution: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
Stakeholder Coordination: Proven ability to work across functions in a matrixed environment.
Presentation and Excel Skills: Advanced PowerPoint, Intermediate Excel capability and structured thinking.
Professional Presence: Articulate, credible, and comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required.
5–10 years of experience in communications, business management, consulting, or a related field.
Experience in financial services or similarly complex environments preferred.
Prior experience supporting senior executives or working in communications or strategy.
Strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
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.
Recruitment Assessments
Expected annual base pay range for the role is 141,100 USD to 211,600 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.
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Key Skills
Human Resources
Business Planning
Business Priorities
Business Partnerships
Employee Engagement
Business Administration
Commercial Knowledge
Leadership
Relevant Skills
Event Management
Elearning
Coordination Skills
Business Processes
Self Motivation
Health Savings Accounts
Mental Health
Demonstration Skills
Operational Support and Analysis
Carrying out Assessments
Professional Communication
Knowledge of Finance
Microsoft Excel
Innovation
Attention to Detail
Marketing
Content Creation
Geography
Logistics Operations
Continuous Training
Structured Analysis
Microsoft PowerPoint
Travel Planning
Trustworthiness
Business Transaction Management
Communication Skills
Budgeting Skills
Consulting
Recruitment
Perseverance
Banking Services
Administrative Operations
Assertiveness