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 .