HR Generalist France and Sweden

Requisition Number: 46301

Job Location: Paris, FRA

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Fixed Term Worker

Posting Start Date: 05/01/2026

Posting End Date: 18/01/2026

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Key Responsibilities

• Support the local Head of HR with the overall HR book of work for France and Sweden and the effective execution of the people agenda in alignment with the overall HR and Organisational strategies.
• Partner with a wide variety of stakeholders within and outside of HR to ensure the delivery of the strategic agenda, ensuring project & overall governance, tracking progress & content, compliance with regulatory requirements, organization and communication.
• Support the local Head of HR SCB and the team to identify opportunity for continuous (process) improvement to enable increased team effectiveness.
• Contribute to strengthening our HR organization and ensuring the robustness of our processes, in order to support the business and ensure compliance with our governance & regulatory related requirements.
• Contribute to the full scope of the HR activity (including payroll and service delivery, Works Council relations, global projects and processe).
• Ensure high performance and consistent delivery through building effective working relationships with relevant HR & business stakeholders.
• Monitor and track progress of deliverables including key initiatives and projects that support the achievement of the strategic agenda, taking the lead on projects where appropriate.
• Ensure relevant flow of communication and information between the team and wider stakeholders.
• Construct a trustful relationship with local management team and employees to deliver the strategic outputs
• Prepare reports, presentations, papers and review material to support discussions and decision making.
• Provide knowledge in project management, change management and communications.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the HR spectrum incl. French Labour Law
• Knowledge of Financial Services
• Understanding of Business Function, incl. key products and roles, operating model, and strategic agenda
• Advising, engaging, and delivering an HR agenda in line with Business and People Priorities
• Change Management, Project Management, Analysis, and Insight, as well as Organisational Effectiveness
• Understanding of HR products and implementation
• Knowledge of HR trends, best practices, and applicability
• Fluent French and English

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.