Job Description

Job ID: 38511


Location: Kolkata, IN


Area of interest: Retail Banking


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 1 Sept 2025

Job Summary

Oversee Cluster of Branch Performances: Ensure strong financial outcomes, operational efficiency, and service excellence. Grow Wealth Business: Guide WRMs in deepening client relationships and expanding wealth solutions adoption Enhance Client Experience: Promote relationship-based engagement and customized wealth solutions Ensure Operational Standards: Maintain compliance, risk controls, and service quality Develop & Support Teams: Provide mentorship and guidance to strengthen the capabilities of WRMs Lead, mentor, and develop Branch Managers and Team Leaders to achieve business objectives. Foster a high-performance culture focused on sales excellence, service quality, and compliance. Provide direction and support to frontline teams (Relationship Managers) through the branch leadership team Drive training and capability-building initiatives to enhance wealth advisory skills across the sales force

Key Responsibilities

The incumbent will be responsible for planning, developing, and managing the Consumer Banking business across the branch network in the zone, towards achieving sound profitable growth of these branches through the achievement of revenue targets, delivery of quality service across all segments/ products and striving for operational excellence.

Strategy

Formulate, manage and co-ordinate strategies for the area to maximize new business opportunities, cross selling, penetration and deepen existing relationships. Develop strategies for revenue generation and cost control towards profitably growing the branch network. Drive the establishment and adherence to service quality standards in an efficient operation where risks are well controlled. Discuss and re-strategize with Branch Managers for remedial action.

Business

Developing and managing the Consumer Banking business

Processes

Strategic Thinking & Execution Leadership & People Development Strong Sales Acumen Customer Focus & Relationship Building Analytical and Financial Skills Regulatory and Compliance Awareness Communication & Stakeholder Management

People & Talent

Lead, mentor, and develop Branch Managers and Team Leaders to achieve business objectives. Foster a high-performance culture focused on sales excellence, service quality, and compliance. Provide direction and support to frontline teams (Relationship Managers) through the branch leadership team. Drive training and capability-building initiatives to enhance wealth advisory skills across the sales force.

Risk Management

Ensure adherence to internal policies, regulatory guidelines, and compliance requirements across all affluent business activities. Collaborate with risk and compliance teams to implement controls and mitigate operational and reputational risks. Instill a strong risk culture among teams and ensure ongoing monitoring of client suitability and product appropriateness.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct. Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
Serve as a Director of the Board Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

Champion a client-centric culture, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and retention within the affluent segment. Ensure delivery of personalized banking and wealth management services that meet the evolving needs of clients. Monitor client feedback and service standards to ensure consistent and exceptional customer experience.

Other Responsibilities

Oversee Branch Performance: Ensure strong financial outcomes, operational efficiency, and service excellence Grow Wealth Business: Guide WRMs in deepening client relationships and expanding wealth solutions adoption Enhance Client Experience: Promote relationship-based engagement and customized wealth solutions Ensure Operational Standards: Maintain compliance, risk controls, and service quality Develop & Support Teams: Provide mentorship and guidance to strengthen the capabilities of WRMs

Skills and Experience

Relationship Management People management Retail Branch Banking Leadership Mentoring

Qualifications

Education Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related field (MBA 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 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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