This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to play a key role in shaping the future workforce of the Bank. As a strategic HR Business Partner, you will work closely with business leaders to drive talent, culture, and organisational initiatives that support our growth ambitions, strengthen our customer-centric culture, and enhance our Employee Value Proposition. You will also contribute to the Bank's digital and AI transformation journey, helping build a future-ready workforce equipped to succeed in a rapidly evolving environment.
Responsibilities
Strategic HR Business Partnering & Workforce Transformation
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, providing strategic counsel on talent, organisation design, workforce planning, leadership development, employee engagement, and change management.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to align people strategies with business priorities, enabling sustainable growth, organisational effectiveness, and a high-performance culture.
- Drive talent reviews, succession planning, and critical talent development initiatives to strengthen leadership pipelines and future workforce capabilities.
- Champion the Bank's customer-centricity and quality journey by ensuring people practices, organisational capabilities, and employee experiences are aligned to delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
- Lead and implement strategic people initiatives that enhance employee engagement, culture, collaboration, and organisational agility.
- Support the design and execution of workforce transformation initiatives, including future skills development, workforce reskilling, and new ways of working.
- Act as a change catalyst, promoting innovation, continuous improvement, and adoption of digital and AI-enabled HR and business solutions.
Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding & EVP
- Partner with business leaders to anticipate current and future talent needs, providing market insights and workforce solutions to support strategic objectives.
- Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies to attract, engage, and retain high-calibre professionals across assigned business portfolios.
- Drive end-to-end recruitment activities, including workforce planning, sourcing, assessment, selection, offer management, and onboarding.
- Strengthen the Bank's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and employer brand by delivering a positive candidate and employee experience throughout the talent lifecycle.
- Leverage data, analytics, social recruitment, and innovative sourcing strategies to enhance hiring effectiveness and recruitment outcomes.
- Build talent pipelines for critical and emerging roles while supporting diversity, inclusion, and future workforce capability objectives.
People Analytics, Governance & HR Excellence
- Utilise workforce analytics and market intelligence to identify trends, monitor talent risks, and provide actionable recommendations to business leaders.
- Ensure HR practices, policies, and employee-related activities comply with regulatory requirements, internal governance standards, and best market practices.
- Contribute to the continuous enhancement of HR policies, processes, and employee experience through simplification, digitisation, and process improvement.
- Prepare management reports, people insights, and presentations to support HR and business decision-making.
- Participate in strategic HR projects and transformation programmes across the Bank as required.
Requirements
- Degree holder with at least 8 years of progressive HR experience in HR Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, or related functions, preferably in banking or financial services.
- Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in driving talent, culture, and organisational transformation initiatives.
- Passionate about building a customer‑centric culture and enhancing employee experience throughout the talent lifecycle.
- Agile, proactive, and resilient, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Forward‑looking and digitally savvy, with an interest in leveraging data, technology, and AI to improve people and business outcomes.
- Sound knowledge of Hong Kay employment legislation and HR governance.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem‑solving skills.
- Fluent in English and Chinese, including Cantonese and Mandarin.