Romain Gossent, Chief Human Resources Officer at East-West United Bank, won the nomination “HR Manager of the Year”. It is a second consecutive HR award for EWUB – last year the bank’s efforts were recognized with the “Best income & rewards strategy” award.

Romain shared his opinion on how the HR function can help a medium-size bank through challenging international competition – “I strongly believe HR should be more than a support function, it should be a partner for the business. We are here to advise managers and to give them means & tools to deliver the strategy. This is what I have been doing for the past 5 years: improve our recruitment method to find talents anywhere, create tailor-made benefits up to international standards, design reward schemes that take into account over-performance and increased value for our shareholder. However, it is important to remember we are all human and social link is very important, especially in a small organization. This is why we have developed many traditions and pretexts to gather all our employees. Whether it is during a large event like our New Year Party, a smaller one like Carnival or even with the spouses and children like our Family Day, our goal is to interact, to let everyone know another side of ourselves. I am happy to see my work on both the technical and the human side of the Human Resources management be recognized and I will continue to work further to improve our HR strategy.”