Director, Culture & Performance - Global HR; Spanish

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Director, Culture & Performance - Global HR (Spanish)

Requisition

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Please note that we welcome applicants from our corporate offices in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, or Peru, as well as from Canada.

At Scotiabank, our culture is grounded in Scotia Bond - the values and behaviours that shape how we lead, collaborate, and deliver outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other. The Director, Culture & Performance is a senior, enterprise leader within Global Human Resources (Talent Strategy), accountable for strengthening Scotiabank’s organizational culture and enabling high performance across the Bank. This role plays a critical leadership role in advancing Talent Strategy s journey-based operating model, organizing work around the moments that matter most to employees and ensuring enterprise priorities are delivered through integrated, employee-centred experiences.

This role designs and drives global culture and performance strategies aligned to Scotiabank’s enterprise priorities and evolving regulatory and conduct expectations, with a focus on creating a consistent, inclusive, and high-performing environment across regions. Leading a globally distributed team, the Director partners with senior leaders across HR, business lines, and corporate functions to deliver enterprise-wide initiatives that shape the employee experience at scale.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Lead enterprise strategy and delivery:
  Drive the development and implementation of Bank-wide culture and performance initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness and employee outcomes globally.
• Advance the journey‑based operating model:
  Organize work around key employee journeys and moments that matter, ensuring culture and performance initiatives are integrated, employee‑centred, and aligned across the enterprise
• Set clear outcomes and measures:
  Establish clear objectives and success measures for the portfolio, focusing on value creation, measurable outcomes, and a meaningful employee experience.
• Embed an employee-centred approach:
  Organize work around key employee experiences and moments that matter, ensuring initiatives are practical, accessible, and impactful across diverse employee groups and geographies.
• Enable cross-enterprise alignment:
  Build strong partnerships across HR and with key corporate functions (e.g., Marketing, Risk, Audit, Compliance) and senior leaders to secure alignment, sponsorship, and effective implementation.
• Own annual enterprise performance activities:
  Lead activities related to the performance cycle and enterprise culture priorities, including advisory support and enablement resources aligned to broader people initiatives (e.g., leadership development, reward and recognition, inclusion, succession, and performance).
• Build a centre of expertise:
  Serve as a source of knowledge and insight on culture change and performance best practices, incorporating external benchmarking and industry perspectives to strengthen Scotiabank’s approach.
• Use insights to guide decisions:
  Leverage people data and employee listening inputs to identify themes and trends and recommend actions that strengthen culture and performance outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement:
  Foster a collaborative, adaptable environment and apply iterative ways of working to improve solutions, enable learning, and increase speed to impact.
• Champion strong governance and controls:
  Maintain effective day-to-day business controls and ensure the portfolio meets operational risk, regulatory compliance, AML/ATF, and conduct expectations.
• Lead and develop talent:
  Build a high-performance, inclusive team environment; communicate vision and priorities; and actively manage development and succession planning across the team.

• Enterprise-wide influence:
  Shape culture and performance strategies that apply across Scotiabank’s global workforce, with decisions and solutions that scale across regions and business lines.
• Journey leadership mindset:
  Operate as a senior…