HR Business Partner - Oil Gas

  • Deadline 29 November 2026

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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