Senior Director, HR Business Partnering – APAC

1 week ago


Singapore GLG Full time $120,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Title: Senior Director, HR Business Partner APAC

Location: Singapore

Reports To: Global Head, HR Business Partnering

Overview

A fast-paced, innovative and dynamic organization is seeking a highly strategic, driven, and progressive HRBP Senior Director for APAC, based out of Singapore.

Reporting to the Head of Global HR Business Partnering in NY, this role will be the partner for the Chief of APAC and will lead 2 APAC HR Business Partners. This position is critical in aligning our people strategy with business objectives, fostering organizational effectiveness, leading on transformation and driving high performance whilst ensuring high impact HR presence in all markets across the region. The role is both a strategic and hands-on, expected to collaborate and influence at all levels of the organization with a large focus on change and talent management.

In partnership with the business, and other Centers of Excellence, this role is empowered to drive and execute proactively and innovatively on the people strategy and to have a real impact on leaders and individual contributors across the organization.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of HR Business Partners across APAC
  • Partnering with the Chief of APAC and business leaders to design and drive innovative, strategic and targeted solutions for your client group. In conjunction with the business, you will be responsible for curating and executing a well-designed talent strategy throughout the year in a transforming business.
  • Leading the continued evolution of your business groups, including organizational design, workforce planning, change management and talent management, with a lens on the global landscape.
  • Building strong relationships with your business leaders as well as other supporting functions across the organization to collaborate effectively on the talent strategy. Consult, coach and challenge your business leaders to cultivate effective solutions to people issues and drive employee engagement.
  • Partner with the business on technology advancements and talent management in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Leverage talent acquisition to develop hiring plans to proactively support business objectives and meet skill needs for the future.
  • Collaborate with the business to drive high performing teams and a culture of feedback and coaching.
  • Work closely with the business and Talent Development partners on training needs and upskilling at all employee levels and engage with appropriate COEs in the execution and monitoring of programs.
  • Focus on retaining top talent through succession planning and clear career pathing for your business groups.
  • Ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices across the region, while maintaining local relevance. Ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations across all countries in the APAC region.
  • Work with the Compensation team to foster the creation and application of effective compensation programs that drive business priorities, retain, and motivate talent. Run annual compensation, performance review, talent review, promotion, and job re-leveling processes for assigned client groups.
  • A key contributor to the Global HR Business Partner Strategy, leading and collaborating on global and regional initiatives.
  • Focus on advancing diversity and inclusion efforts across the business, in particular around hiring, development and retention.
  • With data driven decision making being front of mind, leverage data to analyze trends in the business and inform where to focus the people strategy. Leverage insights proactively to optimize performance and mitigate risks.
  • Use a strong commercial mindset, a deep understanding of your business groups and insight from the external industry to effectively support your business.

An ideal candidate will have the following:

  • Ten+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience within APAC with strong business acumen.
  • Experience leading regional teams in a matrixed, multinational environment.
  • Must be experienced working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative matrixed organization, with proven ability to lead and develop HR teams.
  • Highly strategic, influential and a positive challenger to the business in order to deliver the best results whilst equally enjoying a hands-on approach within a truly collaborative team environment.
  • Ability to adapt and be agile, navigate through ambiguity and lead through change.
  • Proven experience executing on organizational changes, organizational design and continuous change management.
  • Deep understanding of employment laws, labor trends, and HR practices across APAC markets.
  • Demonstrated strong internal stakeholder management, both with senior management, frontline employees, and internal support functions.
  • Superior communication, problem-solving, judgement and critical thinking skills. High integrity with the ability to build trusted relationships.
  • Consulting, coaching and facilitation skills, with experience in mentoring and developing talent.
  • Adept in technical HR knowledge across the various HR functions such as compensation, change management, talent acquisition, employee relations, HR analytics, etc.
  • Results oriented, with a sense of urgency and a focus on service delivery and willingness to be hands-on.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively, while ensuring a high degree of accuracy and organization and attention to detail.
  • Fluent in English; proficiency in an additional APAC language is a plus.

Why Join GLG

  • Be part of a global leader in the expert network insights space
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping people strategy across dynamic Asia Pacific markets
  • Lead with autonomy, collaborate globally, and make lasting impact

About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group

GLG is the world's insight network. Our clients rely on GLG's global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).

We serve thousands of the world's best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world's largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.

GLG's industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company's culture.

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