Chief People Officer, Ddb Asia

Overview**:Role**:Chief People Officer, DDB Asia
**Reporting line**: CEO DDB Asia
**Partnerships**: Regional function leads (CCO, CFO, CGO, etc), local agency leadership, HR/talent community across Asia

We have a simple belief — Unexpected Works. It means that the best idea is the one you never saw coming. The thing that catches you so off guard that you cannot look away. And the only path to genuinely unexpected works is through creativity. Not just what passes for creativity because it answers a brief, looks the part, and helps everyone sleep at night. But creativity that is foreign, surprising, and interesting enough to cause jaws to drop and sales to soar. It’s having the fresh perspective and raw energy to bring something into the world that no one’s ever seen before. We’re talking about the courage to shake things up and maybe even tear a few things down. And knowing that what most would call the finish line is where the real work starts.

We believe in people, product, and profit, in that order. For us, people always come first. They’re the soul of our network. It takes amazing folks to make amazing work. That’s why we make sure everyone who comes through the door is as great as the people who are already here. It’s also why we constantly strive to build diverse teams where everyone brings something unique to the table. Because you can’t make the unexpected if you only work with the usual suspects.

By bringing together diverse thinkers with different backgrounds and perspectives, we validate Bill Bernbach’s notion that an idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

So, come be part of the magic.

The Chief People Officer for Asia is responsible for evidencing to the Regional CEO the value of human capital in achieving growth goals. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with regional and local leadership to build a high-performance culture in every agency. The position carries a high degree of responsibility, accountability, and discretion.

**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities include, but are not exclusive to:
**_Overall
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- You are driven by supporting the growth of our business and our clients’ business.
- You partner to propel the incubation of a growth mindset across offices and teams
- You are a passionate people person who prides yourself in helping others unlock their full potential
- You understand how employee engagement is a driver of business performance and get excited by demonstrating how it’s critical to business success and affects the agency’s financial health and profitability
- You love solving problems and will always find a solution whatever the challenge
- You have well-developed leadership, operational and project management skills - you are organized and disciplined, showing attention to detail and following up steadfastly to ensure the right results
- You have the ability to simplify complexity and can quickly assess a situation and determine what needs to happen next to ensure progress
- You are a truth teller, able to provide a broad view without politicking or a specific organisational agenda
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Business Partnership_**
- You are a trusted business partner to regional and agency leadership; a commercially focussed people practitioner who proactively contributes to driving the people and culture agenda across the business
- You build and know what it takes to sustain inclusive workplace environments where the best talents flourish, are engaged, and want to stay
- You facilitate and champion employee engagement and are adept at rigorous data analysis to identify critical insights that drive action and improvement
- You are an advocate and ally for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Taking pride to spearhead the DE&I agenda set out by global
- You can validate to leadership the commercial importance of active talent management
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Discipline Expertise_**
- You strategically partner with business leadership in every agency to ensure people practices and programs support their business goals and objectives
- You seek to find the right answers by analysing trends and data from all available sources utilising this information to gain buy-in for change implementation
- You identify skills gaps and work with regional leadership to design, develop and deliver a local learning & development curriculum that runs across the business to drive continuous improvement
- You steer a performance management process that drives accomplishment across all levels of the organisation, using data-driven metrics and KPIs aligned with business strategy
- You build our employer brand to ensure there is a clear hiring strategy and plan in place to attract and on-board the best talent in the region
- You monitor turnover and work with local agencies to devise retention strategies that make DDB is a great place to work, identifying key signals and behaviours that lead to churn and having a plan in place to proactively address issues
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