People Relations Partner

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Job Title: People Relations Partner - Asia Pacific

Location: Singapore/APAC

About the role

As a People Relations Partner, you will implement the strategy and operational plans that strengthen compliance, improve the people experience and case management, including high quality investigations and ensure consistency of employment related outcomes in your region.

This role in the Asia Pacific region also involves partnering with senior leaders to develop and lead on the People Plan priorities for the specified area, developing this in line with the wider Divisional/Functional/Regional People Plan, and ensuring that it enables both the Business Plan and the HR Global Priorities. The role also therefore involves understanding and interpreting the core drivers of engagement and building plans to enable BSI's culture and impact the people experience in the region.

BSI operates in a complex multi-jurisdictional environment, where legal requirements and mandated requirements continuously evolve and where we have both individual and collective arrangements in place across the world.

Responsibilities:

- Implement strategic approach and sustainable operational plans.
- Deliver proactive flow of legal information, insights and interpretation from trusted external experts into your region.
- Advise and support on organisation design and change including mergers, acquisitions, divestments and restructuring balancing commercial needs with our legal and regulatory obligations.
- Implements regular calendar of interventions for education and skills building in their region.
- As part of the People Relations Team, collaborates with Centres of Excellence to best leverage existing and new training/learning programmes and annual cycles.
- Works as part of the People Relations Team to develop and maintain a readily accessible suite of core documentation and artefacts.
- Delivers targets for reducing number of people relations cases, implementation of solutions such as Early Intervention Framework.
- Oversees all people relations cases in region, working directly with Investigating Managers.
- Operationalise the end-to-end infrastructure for case management for robust case management, governance, and reporting.
- Monitor and analyse case management data to identify themes, recommend and implement agreed areas for improvement.
- Proactive management of the collective employee relations landscape, specifically Works Councils in Europe. Demonstrable track record of high-volume case management in all locations.

People Partnering
- Develops the People Plan for the region, contracting with business stakeholders to understand the people requirements.
- Works with Leadership teams to maximise business performance, through effective Workforce Planning, developing, and leading on Strategic Resourcing Plans.
- Guides business leaders on key OD principles and measures to ensure OD is effective and governed. Participates in OD planning activity to create implementation plans.
- Ensures that agreed reward and recognition practices are supportive of business goals for the region.
- Manages the annual people processes for the business area.
- Supports the business area in the implementation of agreed talent management and succession planning interventions.

Key Performance Indicators
- Advises and supports managers on conducting people relations cases as a specialist across the region.
- Delivers global people relations strategy including local impact and management of Works Councils/unions where appropriate.
- Delivers local Early Resolution Framework and people plan initiatives within region.
- Maintains the People Relations dashboard for the region.
- Help drive reduction in people relations cases aligned to target.
- Develop and deliver local training to Investigation Managers, People Team and other stakeholders as required.
- Effective management of people relations processes and events within the region, across the people calendar.

To be successful in the role, you will have:

- Demonstratable experience within a previous People Relations role.
- Detailed understanding of Employment Law within your region.
- Thorough understanding of employee engagement models.
- Fluent in English, written and spoken.
- Ability to create and maintain new policies, processes, systems.
- Excellent prioritisation & organisation skills.
- Data analysis / numeracy skills.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work at scale, establish root cause and deliver sustainable solutions.
- Additional language skills desirable.

BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, ongoing training and development including 14-days annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, various allowances (including care; dependent on the role), paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave,