Peta Latimer is responsible for delivering profitable growth and day-to-day management of Mercer Singapore through operational excellence, business mix management, portfolio extension, talent investment & robust risk management. Along with her dedicated Country Leadership Team, Peta is committed to delivering upon the brand promise - creating healthy, wealthy, talented workforces.
With many years spent advising multinationals on change and workforce transformation, and having run successful consulting teams, Peta is passionate about making a difference to the way work works and always looks to drive high performance through people in an authentic and sustainable way.
As an organizational psychologist, Peta has assisted clients across a range of industries and high-profile projects. She advises the largest telco in Indonesia on their Digital 2020 Ambition, leading a full organization operating model and design review, as well as workforce planning from a sizing and capability perspective.
Peta led the omni-channel transformation project for a global retailer across 5 countries in South East Asia. This included post-merger integration activities of an eCommerce start-up including harmonization of compensation & benefits and diagnosis of current culture, and helping the executive team finalize their 2021 roadmap based on customer journey mapping, leading to the restructuring of 11 functions with almost 75% impacted job roles.
he has worked with a US insurer who had entered a JV with a government-linked business in Malaysia assisting with the full execution of the HR & Change Management workstream that included capability assessment and upskilling, revamping their EVP and ascertaining change readiness.
Peta leads an organization realignment project for a prominent Financial Services client having reviewed current operating model, assessed inefficiencies, aggregated digital initiatives across the region and proposed to-be state for the Technology & Strategy function and associated workforce plan.
Peta enjoys casual lecturing at Singapore’s NTU’s Business School and is actively involved in the enhancement of Singapore’s HR capability. In her capacity as CEO, Peta works to bring the best of Mercer’s content, solutions, and people together to meet their client’s dynamic needs.