Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to understand operational priorities, strategic objectives, organizational challenges, and workforce requirements.
- Translate business strategy into HR priorities, people plans, and practical solutions that support business performance.
- Provide data-driven HR insights and recommendations to support leadership decision-making.
- Challenge and advise business leaders on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce productivity, and people-related risks.
- Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on people and organizational matters.
Workforce Planning & Organizational Effectiveness
- Lead workforce planning activities, aligning current and future workforce requirements with business strategy and operational plans.
- Support organizational design, restructuring, role clarification, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
- Analyze workforce composition, headcount, critical capabilities, vacancies, and resource allocation to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with business leaders to assess workforce sustainability, succession risks, and capability requirements.
- Support the development and review of organizational structures, job descriptions, role accountabilities, and competency requirements.
Talent Acquisition & Critical Workforce Management
- Partner with business leaders and Talent Acquisition teams to define recruitment priorities, critical roles, and talent requirements.
- Ensure effective recruitment planning for technical, managerial, and hard-to-fill positions within the upstream oil and gas environment.
- Support talent attraction and retention strategies for specialized engineering, technical, asset management, and corporate roles.
- Monitor recruitment progress, workforce gaps, and critical vacancy risks, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
- Contribute to workforce localization and succession initiatives where applicable.
Performance & Talent Management
- Drive the implementation of performance management processes, ensuring alignment between business objectives, individual goals, and measurable outcomes.
- Coach managers on objective setting, performance calibration, constructive feedback, and performance improvement.
- Identify high-potential employees, critical talent, and succession candidates in collaboration with business leaders.
- Support succession planning for business-critical and hard-to-replace positions.
- Develop and monitor action plans to address performance gaps, talent risks, and capability shortages.
Learning, Development & Leadership Capability
- Identify business capability gaps and translate them into targeted learning and development priorities.
- Partner with Learning and Development teams to design development interventions aligned with technical, managerial, and leadership requirements.
- Support leadership development, coaching, mentoring, and on-the-job development initiatives.
- Promote knowledge transfer, internal talent mobility, and structured development pathways for critical roles.
- Contribute to capability-building initiatives that strengthen organizational resilience and long-term workforce sustainability.
Employee Relations & Organizational Climate
- Advise managers on employee relations matters, performance concerns, workplace issues, and the consistent application of HR policies.
- Support the resolution of complex employee matters in collaboration with relevant HR functions.
- Monitor employee engagement, organizational climate, and emerging people-related risks.
- Promote a high-performance culture, leadership accountability, employee development, and effective communication.
- Ensure HR practices are implemented consistently and in accordance with applicable legislation and company policies.
HR Analytics & Continuous Improvement
- Monitor key workforce metrics, including headcount, turnover, recruitment, performance, succession coverage, and capability gaps.
- Prepare management reports and provide actionable recommendations based on workforce data.
- Track the effectiveness of HR initiatives and ensure that agreed actions are implemented.
- Collaborate with HR Centers of Expertise and shared services teams to deliver integrated HR solutions.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement and standardization of HR processes across the supported business areas.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, Psychology, or a related field.
- Minimum 5–7 years of progressive HR experience, including substantial experience in an HR Business Partner or comparable strategic HR role.
- Experience in the oil and gas industry, preferably in upstream operations, exploration and production, oilfield services, or an energy-sector.
- Strong knowledge of workforce planning, organizational design, performance management, talent management, and succession planning.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders and translate business challenges into effective HR solutions.
- Experience supporting technical and specialized workforces, including engineering and other hard-to-fill professional roles.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret workforce data and develop actionable recommendations.
- Understanding of employee relations, HR policies, and applicable employment legislation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
- Fluency in Azerbaijani and English.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Key Competencies
- Strategic Business Partnership
- Business Acumen in the Upstream Oil and Gas Environment
- Workforce Planning and Organizational Design
- Talent and Succession Management
- Performance and Leadership Development
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Stakeholder Management and Influencing
- Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness
- Confidentiality, Professional Judgment, and Accountability
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