Human Resource Business Partner

Ecobank is seeking a Human Resource Business Partner to ensure people strategy directly drives business performance, productivity, and strategic execution. 

• Partner with business leaders to translate business strategy into people, workforce, and capability plans

• Lead strategic workforce planning (right size, skills, structure, cost) aligned to business priorities.

• Enable delivery of performance management frameworks that drive accountability and results.

• Advise leaders on organization design, role clarity, and productivity improvement initiatives.

•  Use people analytics and evidence to inform leadership decisions and improve performance outcomes

• Business plans supported by fit-for-purpose workforce capability 

• Improved productivity, execution discipline, and leadership effectiveness

• Build an engaged, capable, high-performing workforce and strong leadership bench.

• Drive talent management outcomes (succession planning, leadership pipelines, critical roles).

• Coach and enable leaders to manage performance, capability, and employee development effectively.

• Champion employee engagement, wellbeing, inclusion, and fair treatment.

• Act as employee mediator in complex or sensitive people matters, ensuring balanced outcomes.

• Support learning, reskilling, and capability-building initiatives in partnership with HR Centers of Expertise.

• Strong employee experience and engagement.

• Sustainable leadership and talent pipeline.

• Reduced regretted attrition and people risk.

• Protect the organization by ensuring compliant, consistent, and well-governed people practices.

• Ensure consistent application and interpretation of HR policies, frameworks, and procedures 

• Advise leaders on employment law, disciplinary, grievance, and employee relations matters 

• Monitor people-related risk (talent risk, conduct risk, succession gaps, ER exposure) 

• Partner with Shared Services and Group HR Centres of Excellence to ensure controlled and auditable HR process delivery.

• Support audits, regulatory reviews, and internal governance requirements related to people management.

• Reduced legal, regulatory, and conduct risk

• Strong internal controls and audit outcomes

• High confidence in HR governance

• Improve business results by enhancing employee, manager, and internal customer experience.

• Act as a trusted advisor and single point of HR interface for business leaders .

• Enable leaders to deliver positive employee experiences that translate into better customer service. 

• Improve manager capability to handle people matters effectively and consistently. 

• Simplify and improve people processes in collaboration with Group HR Operations and CoEs.

• Strengthen HR’s credibility, responsiveness, and value perception within the business.

• Improved employee and manager satisfaction with HR.

• Better frontline capability and service delivery.

• Strong internal HR brand and trust.

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Economics, Law, Finance related fields of study. 

• At least 4-5 years’ experience, ideally in HR function 

• Sound understanding of labour laws.

• Experience working with senior management team with the bank.

• Exposure handling change management projects.

• Experience in a Business Partnering role.

• Profiency in HR Analytics, data and AI.

• High levels of initiative, energy & drive, strong planning & organizing skills, attention to detail, ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines, excellent communication & interpersonal skills, ability to maintain confidentiality, interact with and present ideas to Executive staff, Senior Management or other levels in a confident manner and capability of working in a diverse & dynamic environment.