Head of Human Resources - Strategy

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Develop and execute the overall HR strategy aligned with the Bank’s business goals, ensuring effective translation of organizational vision into actionable people strategies and long-term workforce planning.
• Lead organizational design and development initiatives by reviewing and redesigning structures, roles, and reporting lines to improve efficiency, agility, and capability alignment across business units.
• Drive talent strategy and workforce planning by overseeing talent acquisition approaches, identifying future skill requirements, addressing critical talent gaps, and building succession planning and leadership pipeline frameworks.
• Utilize HR analytics and workforce data to support strategic decision-making, monitor key HR KPIs (including attrition, engagement, productivity, and workforce costs), and provide insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Lead initiatives to enhance employee experience and organizational culture, ensuring alignment of HR policies with the Bank’s values and partnering with leadership to strengthen engagement across all levels.
• Drive HR transformation and innovation by leading digital HR initiatives, process improvements, and benchmarking against industry best practices and global HR trends.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the Executive Management Team, collaborating with business heads, finance, and operations on strategic workforce and organizational issues
• Lead, mentor, and develop HR strategy teams and specialists, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring effective stakeholder engagement across the Bank.

PREREQUISITES:

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (Master’s degree such as MBA or HR specialization preferred).
• At least 10–15 years of progressive HR experience, including significant exposure to strategic HR leadership roles within large or complex organizations (banking or financial services experience preferred.
• Proven experience in organizational design, workforce planning, HR analytics, and HR transformation initiatives.

SKILLS:

• Strong expertise in HR strategy development, organizational design, and workforce planning
• Advanced knowledge of HR analytics and data-driven decision-making
• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills at executive level
• Strong change management and transformation leadership capability
• Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills
• Ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing HR teams
• Strong business acumen and understanding of banking/financial services environment (preferred)