HR People Advisor

Job Title: People Advisor (HR People Advisor/Partner)

Job Summary: People Advisor supports dedicated Business Units across APAC Region comprising 13 locations/countries. Work in close partnership with Global HRBPs aligned to dedicated business units, COE’s, HRSD Cluster Leaders, HR Generalists and Payroll teams. It plays a pivotal role in assisting HRBPs and COEs in implementing global strategies at a regional level for the business units they support; Act as a trusted advisor and partner to businesses based in various countries across the APAC region.

In this role, you will provide proactive people collaborating/partnership support for the dedicated stakeholder group and add value through strong stakeholder engagement.

The role will not engage in routine Regional HR work, which is managed by the HR Generalist.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering and Support: Contributes to the achievement of strategic and operational priorities in the Regional business stream by actively participating and collaborating in the Global HR Account team. Re-directs people leader requests to the appropriate HR service area as needed e.g. MyMAP.
• Talent Management: Acts as a key resource for Global HRBPs and HR COE’s to support and drive the delivery of required talent activities at a Regional Level for their responsible business units.
• Optimizing business performance: Provides guidance to Regional Leaders (predominantly at VP/Director Level), on optimizing business performance through effective people management strategies, including organization structure, capability development, engagement and productivity enhancement. Collaborates closely with Global HRBPs, COEs and HRSD colleagues as necessary to ensure alignment with organizational priorities and objectives.
• HR Projects and Initiatives: In alignment with Global HRBPs, COE’s and HRSD colleagues, coaches and supports VP/Director level leaders as needed during annual CoE cycles (e.g., Goal Setting, Talent Management processes and IM Listening action planning). Operate through the lens of continuous improvement, listening to and acting on feedback from People Leaders and Employees (e.g., updates to Knowledge articles).
• Teaming. Fosters knowledge sharing among HR colleagues by actively collaborating and contributing to the collective knowledge base across the team. Share knowledge and collaborate with HR colleagues as part of the Account Management team that comes together to serve our businesses and functions.
• Stakeholder engagement: Excels in stakeholder engagement, skillfully building relationships, addressing concerns, and fostering collaboration for successful project outcomes and HR alignment.
• Business focus: make informed HR decisions and recommendations through leveraging robust business knowledge and acumen (business goals, competitors, market position etc.)
• Continuous improvement: Operate with a continuous improvement, actively identifying and addressing opportunities for enhancements in HR processes
• Collaboration & communication skills: Effective communication skills to interact with diverse stakeholders, including people leaders, HR advisors, and COE's, facilitating a collaborative and cohesive HR approach in a complex, multi-supplier and matrixed environment.
• Customer focus: Demonstrated experience of prioritizing customer experience and building strong productive customer relationships.
• Address unique, people related and business challenges and complex situations.
• Provide proactive people partnering support for the dedicated stakeholder group (Commercial and Operations) and add value through strong stakeholder engagement. Not engage in routine but provide support only
• Support stakeholders across APAC and participate in different meetings with Global HRBP, CoE, HR Project Teams

Requirements:

• Experience: 12+ years progressive experience in HR collaborating/ partnership including 3+ years of HR partnering experience across APAC countries.
• Education: HR Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent required
• Strong business acumen, project management skills and should have extensive knowledge of APAC markets
• Experience in business partnership with Commercial (Sales) is required/preferred
• Customer focus and wide HR facet expertise
• Highly collaborative working style
• High levels of resilience, adaptability and excellent critical thinking skills to effectively execute the role's responsibilities.
• Flexibility: Flexible to support stakeholders across different time zones in APAC (Australia to India) and participate in meetings with Global HRBP, CoE, HR Project teams who are based in different timezones (ex - North America)
• Resilience, adaptability and decision-making: Be able to work effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced situations, demonstrating resilience, critical thinking, and sound decision-making and judgment with the skill to easily shift priorities to meet business needs. Comfortable pushing back to senior stakeholders as needed,
• HR expertise: Have a strong knowledge of all HR disciplines and related processes delivered in a shared services environment supporting APAC countries.
• System and tools: Knowledge of Workday, Servicenow is preferred. Strong presentation skills using Powerpoint/Google slides.
• Travel: Ability to travel @ 10%