Director of HR Center of Excellence (CoE)

About the Role

The Director of HR CoE is responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the execution of high-impact HR strategies and frameworks. This role acts as a strategic architect for the organization’s talent ecosystem, ensuring that recruitment, leadership development, and cultural initiatives are fully aligned with the company’s vision, mission, and long-term business goals.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Talent Acquisition & Manpower Governance: Define recruitment policy and selection standards to ensure high-quality hiring across Corporate, Oil, and Non-oil units; monitor and evaluate talent acquisition performance at group level to support business agility and ROI.
• Talent Management & Leadership Pipeline: Establish leadership development framework, assessment tools, succession planning and HiPo governance; design career architecture and internal mobility frameworks to foster talent growth and retention across all BUs.
• Organizational Effectiveness & Performance Framework: Design and govern the Performance Management System (PMS); lead organizational design reviews, role clarity and agility initiatives; act as lead for large-scale strategic change management and ensure governance control alignment based on SET criteria.
• Culture & Employee Engagement: Define and drive culture transformation and core values to support a unified "One Company" identity while accommodating Oil and Non-oil operational nuances; oversee group-wide engagement framework and survey methodology, analyze data for organizational climate insights; design sustainable culture initiatives to promote high-performance mindset.
• Strategic Analytics & Executive Advisory: Establish people analytics capability to provide advanced HR analytics and strategic reports to the executive team; ensure CoE policies are clearly communicated and adopted, and provide expert guidance to senior leadership on complex people and organizational issues.

Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years in Human Resources, with a strong track record in leading CoE functions.
• Industry Knowledge: Proven ability to manage HR strategies across diverse sectors, preferably in Energy (Oil) and Retail/Service (Non-oil).
• Strategic Architecture: Expertise in designing scalable frameworks and policies that can be localized by HRBPs in different business units.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong capability in using data to measure the ROI of talent and culture initiatives.