Principal Accountabilities

• Support the Area deployment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives Global Talent initiatives and cycle plan activities through application of standard processes/ tools / data / insights ensuring regional and BU alignment of priorities.

• Aims to ensure a seamless and integrated delivery of Area-wide development solutions across the APMEA – North Area which have approximately 1500+ employees across more than 50 different markets (incl. Global Travel Retails).

• Provide active support for Regional HR related operations & initiatives execution in line with global governance framework.

• Contribute to drive the H-ESG agenda for APMEA Area as Social pillar lead by developing & deploying area Health & wellbeing initiatives through providing thought leadership, analytical insights on business challenges and identifying solutions

• Act as a key member of the APMEA North HR team, to provide support to the Area Talent strategy/ agenda and implement initiatives across the Businesses/ Functions/ Markets by working closely with Head of HRs in respective markets & Area Head of Talent, OE & Inclusion – North.

• Conduct ongoing research in external HR trend, best practice to support designing and implementing fit-for-purpose talent agenda, learning along with deployment of solutions and tools, in line with global framework and governance.
  

Business

• Support delivery of DE&I agenda in the Area to ensure the approach and execution is in line with group strategy to support new area integration.

• Understand each markets’ people-related challenges from the angles of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and culture aspects in the Area and support the ideation of strategy and solutions in addressing the challenges.

• Ensure all deployments (i.e. DE&I initiatives & Health & wellbeing projects) are in adherence to relevant global policies, procedures, standards and execution requirements.

• As a key member of APMEA North HR team, orchestrate with various stakeholders to provide support via different channels – (i) Communicate and cascade key information on DE&I agendas (ii) Engage and collaborate with Area Talent managers to deploy necessary initiatives/projects

• Support delivery of the regional learning curriculum and talent interventions
  

Leadership

• Contribute to articulate Area’s desired outcome and provide clear directions to the team to drive success for the North Area

• Foster healthy relationships with senior leaders/ stakeholders to drive and support multiple DE&I and Health & Wellbeing agenda

• Active member of the APMEA North HR team

• Attends other committees and forums on request

• Demonstrate BAT’s Ethos; embedding the values in day to day behaviours

• Connect, engage, collaborate effectively to mobilize teams and deliver through others

• Share Information and insight to the team in driving their respective agenda across
  

Requirements

• Manage multiple, and at times conflicting priorities in a fast paced environment to meet challenging timelines

• Markets knowledge, familiarity or relevant experiences with North Area

• Ability to quickly learn, assimilate and translate strategy into learning solutions

• Create and innovate ready-solutions to meet the needs

• Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within multiple disciplines or a fast changing discipline

• Proactive in developing ideas, continuously searching for improvements in techniques which add value to the business

• Support the implementation business plans through Talent Managers

• High level of interactive listening, in order to discuss and negotiate with others

• Ability to influence others to deliver result collectively