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Global Strategy and Planning helps inform strategic decision-making and acts as a catalyst and driver for strategic change. The team constructively challenges the business with critical thinking and innovative insight to improve the way we do business.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as an Associate Director, Office of Asia and Middle East Co-CEOs.

Principal Responsibilities
In this role you will

Report to the Chief of Staff for the Co-CEO of Asia and Middle East, providing support on the Co-CEO’s regional objectives/priorities, and day-to-day management activities as laid out in the scorecard:

• Support to the Chief of Staff to facilitate and enable Co-CEO and/or other C-suite members to effectively and efficiently execute the management agenda, including but not limited to: internal and external communications, executive briefings, speaker notes, planning overseas visits (and visits from inbound executives) and client engagements in conjunction with the local markets and business representatives
• Optimise the Co-CEO's schedule, focusing on enhancing engagement with relevant Boards, Group management, the regional OpCo, and market CEOs
• Organise and attend regional/cross-entity and/or project meetings, ensuring actions and initiatives and seen through to execution
• Providing support for various Board duties and materials, as required
• Lead and manage special projects as assigned by the Chief of Staff, ensuring successful completion and alignment with strategic goals
• Build and maintain strong relationship with key stakeholders across Asia and the Middle East, including relevant regional and market business and infrastructure teams
• Resolution of ad-hoc tactical issues: day-to-day business problem solving for fast paced execution

To be successful you will need

• Strong understanding of the overall business and infrastructure structure across the Asia and Middle East region, with a particular focus on South Asia, ASEAN, Australasia and the Middle East
• Good understanding of the financial services industry, including global themes and key trends, as well as internal factors such as client segmentation, P&L, balance sheet, etc.
• Proactive and able to work independently and collaboratively, across the different working levels of the institution; Resilient and able to cope with sustained pressure
• Strong problem-solving skills underpinned by highly structured and analytical capabilities, supporting an ability to deal with a high level of ambiguity
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively; Attention to detail and an appetite to dive into issues in depth as needed
• Exceptional interpersonal, organisational, influencing and presentation skills; Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

When applying, please submit a full resume and attach your appraisal reports for the last two performance years. Your local internal application policy should be followed. For internal applicants in Hong Kong with less than twelve months in their current role, please also obtain and enclose the endorsement from your current line manager in the application as well; for more information, you can visit HRDirect and search for content "HKG: Do I need any approval to look for internal career opportunities?". 

Opening up a world of opportunity

Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.
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Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.