HR - Capability Portfolio Lead

Job Description

As a Capability Portfolio Lead, you will partner with business and functional stakeholders to identify, shape and advance workforce capabilities required to support evolving business, organisational and transformation priorities.

You will manage a defined capability portfolio, combining business understanding, external market perspectives, problem solving and stakeholder partnership to translate enterprise priorities and emerging trends into relevant capability strategies and solutions. The role involves a combination of advisory, solution shaping and execution, with a strong focus on ensuring capability development is relevant, applied and responsive to changing business needs.

Responsibilities

• Build a strong understanding of enterprise priorities, business challenges and evolving workforce capability requirements within the assigned portfolio.

• Partner with business leaders, functional teams and subject matter experts to identify, diagnose and shape priority capability needs.

• Translate strategic and organisational priorities into relevant capability strategies, approaches and interventions, providing constructive challenge where required to address the underlying business need.

• Shape and drive capability initiatives from early definition through implementation, adoption and continuous improvement, working across relevant internal and external partners.

• Manage and continuously evolve the assigned capability portfolio, balancing immediate business requirements with longer-term workforce needs.

• Monitor industry and cross-industry trends, emerging practices, technologies and workforce shifts, assessing their relevance and translating meaningful developments into implications for organisational capability.

• Apply insights, feedback and evidence to inform priorities, evaluate effectiveness and continuously improve capability approaches.

• Contribute to the development of enterprise capability practices, frameworks and ways of working, while supporting greater consistency, reuse and scale across the organisation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with approximately 7–10 years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in areas such as strategy, enterprise transformation, consulting, change, organisational effectiveness, business improvement, workforce transformation, technology/digital transformation, talent or capability development.

• Experience contributing to or driving enterprise-wide transformation or strategic initiatives, with active involvement in shaping the approach and translating strategic direction into execution.

• Experience supporting change, adoption, workforce or capability uplift in a business or transformation environment.

• Strong business acumen, strategic thinking and structured problem-solving skills.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage confidently across functions and with senior stakeholders.

• Strong execution capability, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and evolving requirements.

• Strong external orientation and learning agility, with the ability to identify relevant industry and cross-industry trends and translate them into business and capability implications.

• Relevant domain experience in one or more areas such as technology, digital, data, AI, functional/technical disciplines, business/commercial, leadership, organisational development, talent, culture or behavioural change would be advantageous.

• Prior Learning & Development experience is useful but not essential.