AVP HR Business Partner
Job Description
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Strategic Business Partnership:
• Partner with senior business leaders to co-create and execute a people strategy aligned with business goals.
• Act as a thought partner on organisational design, workforce planning, and capability needs.
• Translate business strategy into actionable HR interventions.
Organisational Effectiveness and Design:
• Drive org design, restructuring, and role clarity to enable agility and scale.
• Diagnose organisational health and implement solutions to improve productivity, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Support business transformation initiatives with people-centric change strategies.
Talent and Leadership Development:
• Build strong leadership pipelines and succession plans.
• Coach leaders on: Performance management, Team effectiveness, Leadership behaviours.
• Partner with L& D to enable capability building aligned to business needs.
Performance and Culture Management
• Drive a high-performance culture through robust performance management practices.
• Embed accountability, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a custodian of culture, values, and employee experience.
Workforce Planning and Skills Strategy:
• Lead strategic workforce planning aligned to growth and future skills.
• Identify skill gaps and partner to drive reskilling/upskilling initiatives.
• Enable internal mobility and career pathing.
Employee Experience and Engagement:
• Monitor and enhance employee engagement and lifecycle experience.
• Use data (surveys, attrition trends, feedback) to drive targeted actions.
• Champion inclusion, well-being, and belonging initiatives.
Data-Driven HR and Analytics:
• Leverage HR analytics to provide insights, predict trends, and inform decision-making.
• Track and report key HR metrics: Attrition, Productivity, Talent health.
• Build a data-led HRBP capability.
Change Management and Transformation:
• Lead and support large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Drive change adoption and stakeholder alignment.
• Act as a change agent across the organisation.
Governance and Compliance:
• Ensure adherence to HR policies, legal compliance, and risk management.
• Maintain strong governance while enabling business agility.
Expectations from the Role:
• Operate as a strategic advisor, not a transactional HR partner.
• Drive measurable business impact through people interventions.
• Build deep business acumen and industry understanding.
• Use data and insights to influence decisions and outcomes.
• Balance employee advocacy with business priorities.
• Actively shape a future-ready workforce and culture.
• Build credibility as a trusted partner to senior leadership.
