Brand and Marketing
Our Brand and Marketing team creates lasting connections that drive value and growth for our clients and partners and the organisation. Working collaboratively with client segment teams and other Group functions, we develop distinctive brand experiences that build strong relationships and foster mutual success.
Marketing and Communications
Elevate your career in African financial marketing. Join a leading financial services marketing team in Africa, known for delivering impactful strategies that create value for our business, customers and communities. We're focused on building an engaged community of practice to elevate marketing excellence and firmly establish Standard Bank Group as the trusted partner for clients.
Brand and Marketing
Each of our 4 business units benefits from a dedicated marketing function that is aligned with their objectives and priorities. These customer-centric teams collaborate closely with business stakeholders to develop and deliver powerful solutions that resonate with their target audiences.
Our business unit marketing teams offer a blend of integrated B2C and B2B marketing and communication expertise, complemented by specialist marketing disciplines. Our Group Marketing team provides centralised support across 3 key areas, partnering with the business unit teams to deliver centre of excellence insights, integrated perspectives and enhanced efficiency.
Our department areas:
Brand and marketing
We're responsible for defining, building and measuring our brand and making sure it looks and feels the same across all regions and in everything we do. We also help our marketing teams work more efficiently by providing them with the best technology and a central team to support their efforts. Our focus areas include the following:
- Research and insights
- Digital enablement and platforms
- Design services
- Marketing operations
- Africa regions marketing
- Brand management and marketing for Group functions
- Integrated brand and marketing for people and culture
Communication and reputation management
Managing and elevating our corporate reputation are critical to the success of the Group. We seek to tell the most powerful story for the organisation through our employee engagement, thought-leadership, media relations and public relations and by shaping a positive corporate narrative on the following channels:
- External communications
- Internal communications
- Reporting suite
Brand Experience
We conceptualise and execute experiences that drive brand love and engagement with our clients, our people and our broader stakeholder community. This includes the following:
- Sponsorships
- Events
- Gallery curatorship
- Merchandising and promotions
- Brand activation
Personal employee benefits designed with you in mind
Personal growth is also important to us, so as a part of our team, you’ll enjoy benefits designed to help you achieve your ambitions at work and in your private capacity, both now and in the future. The exact benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in but can include the following:
Taking care of yourself
We don’t always know where life will take us, so we have put together a range of benefits tailored specifically to help you take care of yourself and those you love.
- Wellness programmes
- Counselling and advisory services
- Life, personal accident, incapacity and funeral cover
- Permanent health insurance (PHI) cover
- Discounted rates for voluntary benefits such as spouse life cover, dread disease cover, funeral cover for parents and/or parents-in-law and medical aid gap cover
Managing your finances
We all have dreams and goals in life – so we have several ways to help make them more accessible to you, with significant savings.
- Retirement funding
- Discounted banking products
- Transactional and investment banking products
- Home loans and vehicle finance at preferential rates
- Access to credit
- Assistance with insurance and wills
- Online share trading
- Rewards
Rewards and recognition
We believe in recognising the hard work and positive approach of our people – so we have three formal recognition programmes.
- Beyond Excellence
- Mark of Excellence
- Long service awards
A healthy balance
Your life outside work is important, so we have a leave structure which gives you plenty of time to relax, thrive and be the best you. The exact leave benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in, but can include the following:
- Vacation leave
- Additional vacation leave
- Study leave
- Parental leave
- Compassionate/family responsibility leave
- Special discretionary leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Sick leave
- Short-term incapacity leave
- Recognition leave
- Optional unpaid leave
Please note: We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to benefits. Instead, we believe in taking a more personal approach to giving our people what they need. That’s why our benefits package can look a little different, depending on where you’re based.
Talent acquisition journey
We believe in making dreams possible and connecting the brightest talent to the meaningful opportunities they need to build their skills, ignite their ambitions, and get closer to their purpose.
Apply online
You’ll discover amazing career opportunities on our website. So, start exploring. You can create a profile or log in with your existing details if you’ve already got one. There, you can complete the online application form and submit it, with the supporting documents we’ve requested.
Selection process
- Shortlist: Our Talent Acquisition Specialist and relevant Hiring Manager review all applications and make a shortlist of the most suitable candidates.
- Competency- based interview: If you’re shortlisted, we’ll invite you to take part in a competency-based interview.
- Assessments: If you’re successful in with the interview, you’ll move on to the assessments. Depending on the role you’re applying for, you might be asked to undertake a case-study exercise, technical test, and psychometric assessment, as well as any other role-specific assessment.
- Panel- interview: Then you’ll proceed to final interview stage, where you’ll meet an interview panel and get to ask further questions.
Pre-employment screening
If you have been successful in the selection process, our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch to get your consent for our pre-employment screening which includes the following:
- Identity and educational qualification verification
- Credit record and criminal record
- Outside Business Interest Declaration and Personnel Account Trading Declaration
- Sanctions screening and confirmation of current employment.
Offer
Candidates with satisfactory pre-employment screening will be presented to the Hiring Manager by the Talent Acquisition team for final review. The most suitable candidate will be extended an employment contract and offer letter, detailing everything you’ll need to know about your new role. The recruitment process is competitive, therefore candidates that make it to the pre-employment screening stage are not guaranteed an offer.
Onboarding
Even before you join the Standard Bank family, we want you to think of us as your home. So, before you join, we'll get you off to a flying start with our onboarding experience.
