Director, HRBP
Description
We are seeking an experienced HRBP Director to lead the people strategy for a number of our corporate functions. Operating at the intersection of technology, regulation, and organizational growth, this role partners closely with senior leaders to shape the workforce, leadership capability, and organizational structures required to deliver strategic priorities in a highly regulated, fast-growing environment. This is a highly visible role combining strategic leadership, organizational design expertise, and deep HR partnership, suited to a senior HR leader who thrives in complex, fast-evolving, technology-driven environments.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary HR advisor to senior leaders and their teams across a number of our corporate functions, shaping people strategies that enable delivery of business objectives while meeting regulatory and risk expectations.
- Lead the development and execution of long-term people strategies, ensuring alignment between business priorities, workforce capability, leadership pipelines, and organizational effectiveness.
- Contribute as a senior voice within the People and Culture team, influencing enterprise-wide people priorities, HR capability, and operating model effectiveness.
- Lead enterprise-level workforce planning and organizational design initiatives, ensuring teams are structured to deliver critical capabilities, manage key person risk, and support scalable growth.
- Translate functional strategies into integrated workforce, capability, and talent strategies, ensuring the organization can attract, retain, and develop the skills required for future success.
- Partner with executive leaders to address succession risk and leadership capability, particularly within critical, highly specialized, or regulated roles.
- Shape leadership capability and performance across the organization by coaching senior leaders and strengthening leadership maturity, accountability, and effectiveness.
- Drive enterprise approaches to talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and performance management, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles.
- Champion inclusive leadership, ethical people practices, and high-performance culture, supporting sustainable growth and strong employee engagement.
- Lead the people strategy for large-scale transformation initiatives, including operating model evolution, AI transformation, organizational restructuring, and capability shifts.
- Ensure change initiatives are well governed, effectively communicated, and sustainably embedded, balancing innovation and agility with regulatory and risk considerations.
- Provide strategic guidance to leaders navigating complex organizational change and evolving business models.
- Leverage people analytics, workforce data, and organizational insights to diagnose challenges, inform strategic decisions, and monitor organizational health, resilience, and risk.
- Ensure people strategies support robust governance, regulatory alignment, and responsible risk management within a technology-enabled environment.
- Oversee the fair and consistent application of HR policies, employee relations frameworks, and people governance standards as set by the HR Centres of Excellences (COEs).
- Partner with other senior HR business partners to build capability within the function, role modelling strategic partnership and commercial thinking as a more senior member of the team.
- Work in close partnership with COEs (Talent Acquisition, Reward, Learning, People Analytics) to deliver integrated, scalable people solutions.
- Strengthen the credibility and impact of the HR function by advancing modern HR practices, data-driven decision making, and strategic workforce planning.
Requirements
- Extensive experience operating at HR Director or Senior HR Business Partner level, partnering with executive leadership in complex, matrixed, and highly regulated environments.
- Proven success shaping enterprise people strategies that enable business transformation, innovation, and organizational scalability.
- Deep expertise across core HR disciplines, including organizational design, workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and change leadership.
- Strong commercial and technology acumen, with the ability to translate business strategies into workforce and organizational implications.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with highly specialized technology, data, or analytical teams.
- A track record of leading and embedding transformation initiatives, such as operating model redesign, digital transformation, and organizational growth.
- Strong capability using data, analytics, and insight to inform decisions, assess organizational risk, and measure the impact of people strategies.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility with leaders and navigate complex priorities.
- Experience collaborating with COEs to deliver consistent, engaging, compliant, and high-impact people solutions.
- High integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to handle complex, sensitive, and high-risk people matters with professionalism and discretion.
- A strong commitment to inclusive leadership, ethical people practices, and building high-performing, accountable organizational cultures.
