Urvi Jobalia

Global Head of Talent Deployment & Strategic TA Partner Tech & Ops

Standard Chartered Bank

Urvi’s
BIO

Urvi is an award-winning senior leader, panellist, speaker, and strategist with 20 years in transformation, people partnering, talent acquisition and DEI.

Currently the Global Head of Talent Deployment and Strategic TA Partner for Tech and Ops, she has led multiple global and regional roles ranging from multi-nationals to start-ups across various industries like banking, telecommunications, software, and consulting, with focus on functions that drive tech and innovation.

In the last two decades, she has built people strategies and successfully executed end to end transformation of the talent function, set up and led a robust and impact-driven recruitment & DEI function, driven multiple reorgs, massive ramp-ups, mergers, and business closures. Her focus has been on creating a world-class employee experience whilst driving skills-driven transformation with agility and measuring the impact of the strategy on current and future business outcomes, in a VUCA environment. She has built and led the people agenda through the lens of future of work, talent & capability building and DEI to create a high-performance culture.

Urvi is a fitness enthusiast who loves to travel and spend time with her 9-year-old daughter.