At Bupa, our purpose is simple: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
As a Strategic People Partner, you'll partner senior business leaders to shape and deliver commercially focused workforce, organisation and capability outcomes that enable sustainable business performance, transformation, colleague experience and regulated healthcare outcomes.
You'll apply advanced strategic judgement across substantial business areas and multiple regions, the role combines senior business partnering with the ability to create clarity, connect regional and local priorities, and enable others to lead confidently within their remit.
You’ll act as a strategic adviser, integrator and constructive partner across the People function, translating business strategy into workforce priorities, organisation effectiveness interventions and measurable people outcomes.
Ultimately, you’ll help business leaders make better workforce, organisation and talent decisions, with clearer accountability, enhanced capability, improved productivity, reduced people risk and successful adoption of change.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce strategy and business performance - using data to diagnose performance, productivity, risk and capability opportunities.
Act as trusted strategic adviser and constructive partner to senior leaders, helping them make high-quality decisions on people, leadership, culture, talent, risk and transformation.
Influence organisational effectiveness, shaping ways of working to enable business strategy and future capability.
Connect business priorities with specialist expertise across the people team.
Shape talent strategy, succession, leadership capability, key role planning and future skills, including digital, data and AI-enabled workforce capability.
Transformation and change leadership – guiding the people agenda for change, workforce transition, engagement, adoption, risk management and benefits realisation.
Partner leaders to activate culture, inclusion, wellbeing and engagement priorities.
Make sure People decisions and change activity are aligned to policy, employment law, governance, risk and healthcare expectations.
You
Significant experience partnering senior leaders in a complex, matrixed, regulated or multi-site organisation.
Track record of using workforce data, commercial insight and organisational judgement to improve business performance.
Experience leading organisation design, workforce planning, talent, leadership, culture or transformation activity.
Ability to integrate specialist expertise into practical, business-led solutions.
Experience operating with ambiguity, complexity and differing stakeholder priorities.
Outstanding stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with advanced communication skills, adaptable for wide ranging audiences.
Experience supporting complex change programmes and organisational initiatives.
A collaborative and commercially minded approach.
A passion for developing inclusive, high-performing cultures where people feel valued and supported.
Why Bupa?
Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.
Bupa Global has offices around the world including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt and Hong Kong (China) as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
People & HR
Locations:
Dubai - BGME DIFC
Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.
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