Group Strategy Apprentice 2025
Recent Polytechnic Graduates who join the Group Strategy team Apprenticeship Programme will go through a 12-month learning and development journey across various strategy projects, honing-in their strategic analysis and communication skills.
In the Strategy team you will have the opportunity to work within project teams supporting senior stakeholders in the bank. You will focus on distinct parts of a project, as part of a small team, typically 2-3 persons.
Our work is broad ranging: we help the Board and top management to understand key industry trends and their implications, and work directly with business segments, geographies and functions to define their strategic priorities and implementation plans.
About The Apprenticeship Programme
During this learning journey, you will embark on two 6 months rotations. You will be exposed to different projects and tasks, alongside structured trainings, mentorship and on-the-job learning. Through the programme, you'll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which include:
- Talent assignments
- Technical and professional skills training
- Future Skills and development workshops
- Targeted online learning
- Inspiring thought leadership speaker events
- Real-life business problem solving and more
Eligibility
- We welcome graduates from all Polytechnic Diploma disciplines with less than 2 years of working experience.
- Have the permanent legal right to work in Singapore
- Keen interest in Banking and Finance industry
- Curious and inquisitive minds with an affinity for learning and problem solving
- Analytically strong candidates
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
Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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