EMEA Global Banking HR Business Advisory, Executive Director

EMEA Global Banking HR Business Advisory, Executive Director

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London

HR Business Partner

Full time

Shape the future of EMEA Global Banking by turning people data into decisive talent strategy, future-ready organizational design, and AI-enabled employee experiences.

As an Executive Director, EMEA Global Banking Human Resources Business Advisor (HRBA), you are a senior HR leader and strategic partner responsible for helping to shape and deliver our people agenda by enabling business success through innovative, data-driven, future-ready HR solutions, in a complex and highly matrixed, multi-country environment.

You will partner closely with EMEA and global senior leaders across Global Banking, supporting leadership teams across Global Investment Banking (GIB) and Global Corporate Banking (GCB), to ensure consistent, high-quality advisory, leadership effectiveness, and disciplined execution of our people strategy.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with EMEA and global Global Banking leaders to co-create and execute a talent strategy aligned to business goals and regional priorities.
• Lead workforce planning, talent forecasting and scenario modeling; anticipate impacts of strategy shifts and proactively address talent needs.
• Advise on organizational design, restructuring, and change initiatives to enable a future-ready organization.
• Lead execution of the annual talent, performance, and compensation processes, partnering with stakeholders to ensure consistent and effective delivery.
• Drive succession planning, leadership development, skills transformation, and coaching for senior leaders/managers; proactively identify capability gaps.
• Partner with business leaders to support an inclusive culture and leverage firmwide diversity, opportunity and inclusion initiatives.
• Interpret workforce metrics, identify trends, and translate insights into clear, decision-oriented "data stories."
• Model impact where relevant (e.g., outcomes, adoption, effectiveness) to support evidence-based prioritization of people interventions.
• Analyze workforce data and trends to identify opportunities and risks, providing actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
• Orchestrate holistic employee experience priorities across Global Banking EMEA, blending digital and in-person approaches to strengthen engagement, belonging, and performance.
• Support employee feedback initiatives (e.g., Employee Opinion Surveys / pulse checks) and drive meaningful action planning.
• Lead adoption and implementation of HR products, digital solutions, and technology-enabled processes across EMEA Global Banking.
• Champion integration of AI and automation to optimize HR service delivery, improve decision-making, and enhance employee experience.
• Drive simplification, efficiency, scalable execution, and continuous improvement across HR processes.
• Partner with Employee Relations and HR Legal on complex, time-sensitive employee matters.
• Ensure alignment with local regulatory and governance expectations; embed risk-and-controls considerations into key people decisions and processes.
• Provide sound advice on HR policies, governance, risk, and regulatory requirements, ensuring consistent application across the business.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Extensive progressive HR experience in a large-scale, complex organization, including advising senior leaders in a highly matrixed, multi-country environment.
• Strong business partnership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills; ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity with credibility and integrity.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; ability to use workforce data to identify trends, translate insights into actions, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability across core HR disciplines including strategic advisory, business acumen, change management, and technology adoption.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience and ability to build and develop high-performing teams.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills

• Strong fluency with digital HR tools and technology-enabled HR processes; ability to lead adoption at scale, including AI-enabled ways of working.
• Deep expertise across performance management, compensation, talent management, workforce planning, organizational design, employee relations, and leadership development.
• Proven program/project leadership skills with ability to manage multiple priorities and drive measurable outcomes.
• Experience partnering on regulatory or governance-related people topics in a controlled environment.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.