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Director - Chief Investment Strategist

Requisition Number: 40012
Job Location: Mumbai, IND
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 12/12/2025
Posting End Date: 26/12/2025
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Job Summary
The chief investment strategist will be responsible for driving investment strategy from formation of asset class views to publishing market outlook and commentaries and engaging in client conversations directly and through events and webinars. The CIS will be responsible for increasing visibility and help wealth solutions attain thought leadership position.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Formulation of Asset class views and publishing regular market commentaries and outlook on asset classes
• Enhancing Investment Strategy as a key value proposition.
• Increasing visibility and help wealth management attain thought leadership position.

Business

• The Chief Investment Strategist is responsible for formulating the local investment strategy view, include running the monthly India Investment Committee (IIC) meeting, the formation of our tactical and strategic investment allocation decisions and publishing our flagship monthly outlook on asset classes. The publication contains key macro and asset class views along with the performance of our key investment strategies and themes.
• Update our frontline on our investment strategy views through regular calls to ensure a cohesive house view across segments.
• Drive media visibility of wealth solutions through thought leadership articles and OPED's.
• Engage with clients via events and meetings to enhance investment strategy as a value proposition and ensure appropriate mix of asset allocation and products.
• Key stakeholder in Managed Investment Team's product council and SCSI committees.
• Maximize business performance opportunity.

Processes

• Adherence to Sales and suitability process in line with bank's policy

People & Talent

• Collaborate with frontline (specialists, RMs) and support functions to deliver our house views and advise product team on effective client solutions.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations forms part of the culture.
• Engage with all audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon

Key stakeholders

• Head, Wealth Solutions and Affluent Segments, SCB
• Head, Managed Investments
• Head, Investment products and strategy, SCB
• Managed Investment Product Team
• Wealth Specialists.
• SCSI Investment Strategy Team

Qualifications

• Education-Post-Graduate
• Training-as required by role remit and responsibility
• Licenses-as required by role remit and responsibility

Skills and Experience

• Domain expertise in macroeconomics, financial markets, and key asset classes such as debt, equities, commodities & foreign exchange.
• Proficient in tactical and strategic asset allocation framework
• Extremely articulate in verbal and written communication
• Strategic orientation and aptitude

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.

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