HR Snr Director

Reporting to the Vice President, Human Resources for OCI, you will lead a team of HR Business Partners and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership driving people strategy in a fast-paced, technical, and global environment. This role is accountable for delivering innovative HR solutions, championing organizational effectiveness, and cultivating a culture of inclusion and high performance in a highly competitive and fast-paced industry.

 

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Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnership/Trusted advisor: Serve as the lead HRBP for the core infrastructure executive leadership team, influencing business strategy with a people-first mindset.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop a global team of HR Business Partners aligned to multiple engineering organizations within OCI.
• Organizational Design and Change Management: Drive large-scale organizational design, transformation initiatives, and team effectiveness projects to ensure organizational agility and scalability, elevate culture, and enhance employee engagement.
• Talent Management: Collaborate closely with technical leaders and COEs on workforce planning, talent pipelining, leadership development, succession planning, and critical role identification.
• Culture & Engagement: Foster a diverse, inclusive, and high-performance culture in collaboration with cross-functional partners (DE&I, Talent Acquisition, L&D).
• Employee Relations: Provide expert guidance on complex HR issues, talent movement, engagement, and organizational risk management.
• Operational Excellence: Analyze HR metrics, deliver actionable insights, and drive both current and future-state people analytics for the Core Infrastructure organization.
• Program Implementation: Lead execution of global and regional HR programs (performance cycle, compensation planning, manager capability, etc.) in alignment with Core Infrastructure business objectives.
• Change Leadership: Champion change management practices and manage elevated levels of ambiguity effectively and support the resolution of complex problems in support of OCI’s evolving priorities, transformations, and integration efforts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between line leadership and HR centers of expertise (compensation, benefits, talent management, ER, etc.) ensuring high-quality HR delivery.

 

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field required; advanced degree (MBA, MSHR, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 15+ years progressive HR experience. At least 10 years leading HRBPs or similar HR teams in a global, high-growth technology setting.
• Expertise:
  • Deep understanding of HR disciplines (organizational development, compensation, employee relations, talent management, diversity/inclusion, labor law)
  • Track record of building strong relationships and partnering with technical/engineering executive teams (preferably in cloud computing, infrastructure, platform engineering, or SaaS).
  • Experience diagnosing and building leadership team capabilities, at executive levels, with courage and candor.
  • Demonstrated change leadership expertise with the ability to think and plan strategically but execute daily.
  • Empathetic and situationally aware with a keen ability to read situations and people to facilitate optimal outcomes.
  • Strong analytics skills: able to translate business needs into HR solutions and drive data-based people strategies.
• Leadership: Proven ability to steer HR strategy, drive results through others, and influence senior/executive stakeholders.
• Skills: Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building ability; adept at navigating complexity and ambiguity.
• Travel: Up to 30% domestic or international as business needs dictate.

 

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only