As an HR Consultant you will be accountable for facilitating the shape, delivery and execution of HR projects and initiatives that support the global Wealth and Personal Banking business strategy inclusive of Asset Management (AMG), Insurance and Global Private Banking (GPB), Central Functions such as COO & Digital Transformation, Retail Bank & Strategy (RB&S), and the Regional Businesses. You will work closely with HR Business Partners, Business leaders, HR Advisors and specialists to help design pragmatic solutions to solve business problems, framing complex challenges by leveraging internal and external expertise to deliver solutions that have measurable impact for the Wealth and Personal Banking business. You will support the achievement of the following People Outcomes linked to business outcomes:

1. Business Change: build a simpler and nimbler organisation that enables agile ways of working and improve customer experience; deliver our restructuring plans by enabling redeployment, managing the change well and ensuring our people are treated fairly.

2. Growth: enable business growth in our home markets, on Asian Wealth, international corridors and supporting inorganic growth

3. Future Skills: make our workforce become more technology fluent, digitally enabled, agile and committed to our sustainability agenda

4. Future of Work: be at the forefront of the 'Future of Work' to adapt to our customers and employees evolving lives which have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic

5. Culture & Leadership: engage our workforce with our purpose, build values-driven behaviours and conduct that will protect our clients and our reputation; identify, develop and mobilise diverse talent to critical roles that will accelerate the WPB growth and transformation

6. Inclusion: be a role model in the industry by ensuring our workforce represents the communities that we serve, accelerating representation of minorities in key decision-making positions and closing gaps in employee engagement in under-represented groups

7. HR - Digitise and Energise for Growth: continue to optimise HR Technology and drive improvements to employees' experience with particular focus on hiring and on-boarding

In order to accomplish these outcomes, is expected that the WPB HR Consultant will:

- Manage programme delivery proactively balancing scope, schedule, interdependencies, budget and risks

- Be able to provide oversight to how HR initiatives align to the HR/ WPB Business Strategy and relevant global/country business People Plans

- Be responsible for effective programme controls and procedures within their given initiatives

- Effectively manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to the relevant governance forum and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery

- Whilst some business alignment is expected, some project allocation will be across any business line within WPB (including AMG, Insurance or GPB) therefore a willingness to adapt and learn at pace is required

Experience & Qualifications required:

- Relevant degree in HR

- HR change / HR transformation experience of 10+ years

- Experience of working in an HR environment consisting of business partnering/relationship management with business leaders supported by shared services and areas of expertise.

- Excellent understanding of latest HR trends, strategy and operations value levers, how the role of HR is changing.

- HR Consulting experience is required

- Strong interpersonal skills, confident and ability to work at all levels within a global business environment

- Should have managed teams or worked as a people manager

- Strict adherence to the requirements of confidentiality. Discretion and integrity essential

- Calm under pressure; ability to re-prioritise in very short timescales.

- Flexibility, tenacity and resilience to deal with business demands during periods of high workload.

Key Capabilities:

o Change Management

o Consulting Agility

o Business Impact & Diagnostic

o Relationship & Consultancy

o Design Thinking

o Statistical Analysis

o Project Management

- Demonstrated knowledge of resourcing / diversity & inclusion and planning methodology and ability to apply this to anticipate and prioritise demand in the business