Job description
Posted 23 May 2022
Role Title: HR Transformation Consultant, Group HR
Global Career Band: 4
Role purpose
Accountable for the successful delivery of HR priority programmes, in this case:
- ensuring that all countries update their flexible working policies and guidance documentation, in line with a new Group framework by end of 2022.
- Support employee engagement initiatives and communications campaigns to increase awareness and adoption of flexible working arrangements, which the new policy enables.
What you’ll do:
Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders
- Ensure implementation across the HR portfolio is effectively manage, including any additional Change processes.
- Ensure clear and concise plans are in place and that these are clearly aligned with the strategy.
- Detailed monitoring and reporting on the projects assigned, and highlight through governance when initiatives are at risk of or go ‘off track’.
- Prepare and deliver presentations and updates to key senior stakeholders.
Leadership & Teamwork
- Support a positive work culture within the HR Transformation function based on respect for people, integrity of actions, creativity and collaboration leading to increased productivity
- Collaborate with all relevant stakeholders – inside and outside of the department – working closely with wider functional, regional and business line teams, building strong relationships, ensuring consensus and effectively influencing outcomes
What you will need to succeed in the role:
Functional Knowledge
- Knowledge of HR departments and Global Service Owned areas / HR CoEs, including HR core platforms and processes
- Strong understanding of HSBC Group structures, values, behaviours, processes and objectives
- Good understanding of and proven experience in change and delivery methodologies e.g project management or Agile, in the context of transformation
- Knowledge of key project risks and considerations
- Knowledge of the external environment – regulatory, political, competitors etc.
- Knowledge of the Global businesses and broad understanding of the role of HR in an organisation
Knowledge of and experience in one or more of these areas:
- Experience in change management (i.e. managing people and organizational risks and changes that may occur as a result of implementing transformation projects/ programmes)
- Experience in design, including understanding and ideally experience of the application of Design Thinking methods (workshop design and facilitation, development of personas and experience journey mapping etc.).
- Experience of developing and implementing ways of working to promote agile HR and associated design methods and tools.