Director, HR Business Partner

**Position Summary**:
The Director of Human Resources for South APAC is responsible for managing full facets of HR functions for South APAC (SEA+Oceana). This role sits in the APAC HR Leadership Team as well as the South APAC Leadership Team and will contribute to the overall sub-regional initiatives and strategies by analyzing business needs from the HR perspective. This role will make decisions and recommendations with the partnership of the management team; develop and promote HR initiatives to further the strategic goals of the business, and provide research, advice, and benchmark material as needed.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Lead South APAC HR to ensure professionalism and up to date advice and assistance across the locations.
- Leader of the South APAC HR POD, directly accountable for leading, developing and retaining HRBP and HR Coordinator talent, indirectly for the cross-functional POD members such as Talent Acquisition, Retail Training and HR Operations.
- Engage HR COEs to create and deploy:

- Talent acquisition strategy delivering a consistent pipeline of internal and external talent
- Training and development programs to meet the needs of the business unit
- Establishing wage and salary structure, pay policies
- Compliance with applicable employment regulations
- As a management member of the South APAC leadership team, partners with the business to enable and champion a culture that fully aligns with the core values of the company
- Support annual people agenda initiatives (Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Executive Development Review, Strategic Workforce Planning, Rewards strategies etc )
- Partner with corporate talent acquisition team, provide leadership for assessment, selection, onboarding process to support all recruitment for all levels of the business
- Maintain and develop policy and practices for all offices across South APAC - employment, legal and service agreements
- Provide leadership, support and advice on disciplinary, and grievance cases - including sanctions and terminations of employment.

**Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)**:

- Substantial generalist experience in all functional areas - Employee Relations, Employment Law, Staffing, Compensation, Organizational and Educational development
- Strong understanding of local labor laws and hiring practices in SEA/APAC
- Ability to inspire, motivate and develop team members at all levels
- Possesses a take-charge ability tempered with diplomacy
- Prior experience leading human resources in a highly matrixed organization with critical interdependencies on global stakeholders
- Proven experience working well with others to maintain and build cross-functional (internal and external) relationships.
- Hands-on and possess the insight to anticipate problems and the sophistication to resolve them
- Possesses superior communication and interpersonal skills
- Demands of themselves and of others the highest professional standards of personal and professional integrity
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills.
- Effective impacting and influencing skills.
- Ability to travel extensively (at least 20% of the time)
- Financial acumen to see creative opportunities.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English essential with proficiency in second language (Chinese) is preferred.
- Comprehend and use technical or professional language, either written or spoken, to communicate complex ideas.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization

**Education And / Or Experience**:

- University degree in Human Resources management and/or equivalent education
- CHRP designation required, CHRL preferred and/or equivalent certification
- Minimum of 10 years in Human Resources with at least 5 years in HR management role
- Industry specific experience in retail preferred

**Other Requirements**:
Nil

**Relocation**:
No relocation provided.

LI-Hybrid
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