Director, Leadership & Organisation Development

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Job Summary:

The incumbent is responsible in supporting CHRO to shape and implement strategies on culture, organisation's design & development. The role requires the incumbent to lead people agenda covering a broad scope of work from organisational diagnostics, organisation design & structures, organisational development interventions, leading culture-change programmes, build strong university & external relations and manage communication platforms for CEO.

On people front, this role is also responsible in building an emotional connection between the people and the employer brand across the employee life cycle, from new hires to long tenured employees so that we can reach our employee advocacy aspiration.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership, Talent & Succession

• Implement talent management strategies & principles, core talent management practices, university & external relation affairs to strengthen PAMB employer brand and overall talent capability building.
• Foster strong partnerships with business leaders to develop and implement high impact talent management strategies and leadership development plans.
• Provide expertise into company-wide leadership & talent insights insight, strengthen management's ability to identify, assess talents and coaches' managers in crafting meaningful individual development plans & its implementation.
• Manage the design and implementation of leadership assessment methodologies, development tools, and leadership development programs.
• Align & implement local & regional talent initiatives for talent development & succession.
  
  
  

Learning & Development

• Craft the learning & development strategy in alignment to the overall organisational goals.
• Identifying current & future of work capabilities for development, implementation of key development interventions for PAMB.
• Promote a continuous self-empowered learning organisation and oversee the overall L&D's end to end operations.
• Recommend suitable development interventions to equip and align segmented workforce on leadership competencies to achieve yearly strategic key deliverables.
  
  
  

Organisation Design

• Lead & support organisation design projects.
• Ensure the design of organisation structures and roles are designed to deliver on business strategy and deliver organisation design solutions & build new capabilities for the business.
  
  
  

Culture Building & CEO Communications

• Embed and bring to life the Group Purpose, Values, Mindset & Behaviors that defines the Prudential brand and its employees.
• Implement OD and change management initiatives to enable and drive a high performing and inclusive culture.
• Design a signature end to end people experience & career path journey for our employees.
• Strategize & implement engagement interventions to deepen people belongingness with PRU.
• Identify communication strategies and plans to drive people engagement that aligns with the company and group culture and values.
  
  
  

JOB SPECIFICATION:

• Qualifications/ Experience
• Bachelor's Degree in HR / Psychology or equivalent disciplines.
• Minimum 15 years working experience in area of learning & development, talent management, employee engagement, industrial relations preferably in a unionized financial institution environment.
• Knowledge/ Skills
• Project management skills
• Coaching skills
• Listening skills
• Strong presentation & facilitation skills
• Articulate, excellent communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management
• Familiar with succession management and developmental & psychometric tools
• Attributes
• Passionate on people development & career growth
• Good judgement
• Courageous
• Detailed oriented
• Conceptual & Forward Thinking
• Emotional Intelligence
• Cross generational savviness
• Open to change and nimble to past pace work environment
  
  
  

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.