Manager, People & Culture Business Partner  

Position Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Partnership

  • Primary partner to designated business units.

  • Partner with business function leaders to understand strategic business priorities and develop corresponding people plans.

  • Translate business needs into people solutions in areas such as workforce planning, succession, and capability building.

  • Provide insights on organization structure, manpower optimization, and workforce productivity.

2. Talent & Performance Management

  • Support leaders to facilitate performance management cycle, calibration, and talent reviews.

  • Facilitate job grading evaluation and calibration with Regional Compensation & Benefit team and leaders.

  • Identify high-potential employees and partner with Talent Management & Development team for development plans.

  • Support career development and internal mobility programs.

3. Employee Engagement & Shaping Culture

  • Lead employee engagement activities aligned with ZUS Zealous, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) relevant to the local cultural specific.

  • Provide coaching and when required to facilitate leaders on effective employee relations and engagement issues together with PMIR team.

  • Align and collaborate with Regional People & Culture and cross-country People & Culture Business

  • Partners to strengthen organizational culture and retention initiatives.

  • Integrate DEI into People & Culture strategies and practices to ensure ZUS commitment delivers.

4. HR Operations & Compliance

  • Ensure leaders and business functions comply with country governing laws and internal P&C governance, eg: labour laws and internal people policies, code of conduct and etc.

  • Ensure smooth delivery of end-to-end cycle of HR operations.

  • Manage disciplinary and grievance cases with fairness and compliance.

5. People Leadership

  • Guiding junior people & culture personnel for their development and enhance support capabilities to the designated business unit.

  • Lead and contribute to People & Culture global initiatives/ projects and process improvement initiatives.


Qualification and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in human resource management/ human psychology or relevant field.

  • Minimum 7 years of HR business partnering experience or breadth of HRs or has worked directly with the country leader.

  • Proven track record in managing business organisation structure.

  • Experience in professional services, consulting, or a high-growth environment.

  • Strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.

  • High resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

  • Compassionate in people and strong business acumen.

  • Broad knowledge of different HR spectrums and right people talent development & workforce shaping mindset.

  • Intermediate level of interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build professional people connection with stakeholders.

  • Structured and consistent, with the ability to enforce HR policies and procedures in a service-minded and results oriented manner.

  • Analytical and data-driven approach to decision-making

  • Results-focused, proactive, and able to take ownership of projects from strategy to execution.


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