Director, HR Business Partner for Corporate Functions

In This Role, You’ll Get To:

• Closely partner with senior leaders, embedding in the departments to understand their business and organizational strategy, their talent, and all people aspects of a globally distributed organization

• Deeply analyze and understand the organization to develop strong insights and proactive, actionable recommendations with plans to take them into fast implementation

• Implement people programs supporting departmental strategies and aligned with overall Agoda approach, coordinating across People Team functions and deeply partnering with the business to make the programs impactful and successful

• Ably represent People Team in Agoda leadership forums, and represents Agoda in interactions with related brand companies in people-related topics aimed at sharing and learning best practices, harmonizing policies where appropriate such as inter-brand transfer

• Mentor and develop other professionals in a maturing People function

• Use data to bring insights to stakeholders, inform strategy, track and measure impact of programs tied to business impact such as exit insights and retention strategy, engagement data, patterns of performance management, and more
  
  
  What You’ll Need To Succeed:

• 12+ years of experience in strategic or management consulting or significant internal consulting experience in large organization preferably in the tech industry

• Strong business acumen and understanding of how organizational structures and dynamics relate to execution

• Experience with employee relations cases and process management, and labor regulations in multiple markets

• Practical experience combined with knowledge of best practices in core employment support and services for employees and managers

• Deep understanding of the systems and associated data across the employee lifecycle and attendant business processes across full employee lifecycle

• Excellent executive presence and the ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

• Ability to bring business perspectives and facilitate outcomes is more important than experience in HR roles

• Excellent judgment, self-motivated, curious and trustworthy

• Outstanding ability to lead a team with strong ability to prioritize and guide robust, detailed execution

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability backed with excellent data sense

• High level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics

• Ability to work well with people in a highly multi-cultural environment

• Ability to cope well with ambiguity and change in a dynamic environment while bringing structure that supports execution

• Humility, sense of humor, flexibility, good interpersonal skills and the ability to lead difficult conversations are a must

• Undergraduate degree from a top university expected, advanced degrees welcome
  
  

It’s Great If You Have:

• Familiarity with organizational and instructional design

• Experience working with, or in support of diverse communities.

• Demonstrated change management experience in areas other than HR