Job Description

Company Description

H&M is on a journey to becoming the leading destination for style, creativity and culture. We want to enable, empower and engage teams while building on our passion for being the truly customer-centric company we are. On this journey we want to encourage our teams to learn and grow meaningfully, unleashing their full potential - fulfilling our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), we are a place of possibilities and where you can Be Yourself & More.



As the HR Business Partner - People Relations - Singapore Malaysia Vietnam, you lead the sales market Employee Relations strategy and act as a business partner across all functions. You give direction, lead and manage all ER activities ensuring fair and respectful treatment of colleagues following local legislation and acting within our values, leadership expectations, brand direction and EVP. You are the key driver ensuring attractive work environment and conditions as well as colleague satisfaction; grievance solution and other areas within compensation and benefits will be under your care as well.

Key responsibilities:

In this role, you act with an unpretentious attitude, neutral, confidential and confident dealing with sensitive matters, following the principles of Everyone is a Leader and meaningful growth.

• Leads with vision, has a clear and specific strategy to evaluate and achieve all ER goals and improve colleague experience.
• Being a business partner in all ER matters, answering everyday and exceptional challenges (and change), representing the company in this area towards all our speaking partners in all parts of the brand.
• Develop, promote, and follow up with both global social policies and local adaptations.
• Strong driver in cross functional collaboration, keeping to date with developments in terms of manpower legislation, ER issues, company policies, market trends on compensation and benefits; constantly seeking ways to improve our competitiveness and colleague satisfaction.
• Working strategically on improvement and innovation that make the difference.
• Positioning us as employer of choice and further developing our relation towards all colleagues.
• Supports the development, implementation and engagement of ER strategy and people policies to improve effectiveness of the business as well as promoting positive and constructive relationships between managers and colleagues at all levels.
• Be an active participant of our performance reviews, check-ins, salary and benefits review process.
• Achieving results through anticipatory thinking, solid planning, timely follow up of goals, strong prioritizing, hands on action and clear communication.

Qualifications

Being part of this journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for open minded team players that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking want to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work towards goals and go for it with everything you've got.

Besides your personality we see that:

• A formal education or relevant work experience in HR ER field is appreciated.
• In-depth understanding of the manpower legislation as well as market trends on compensation and benefits.
• Self-driven and motivated, able to tackle challenges and make decisions with minimal guidance.
• Inspiring and excellent communicator, great at building interpersonal relationships as well as managing stakeholders' expectation and speaking confidently to large audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mind, able to turn complex situation into comprehensible solutions.
• Resilient and versatile, quick in setting and adjusting priorities, able to adapt to changing situations.
• Have great passion for fashion business, is people development centric, constantly seeking ways to improve.
• Well balance between strategic way of working and day to day operational matters with a proactive approach, as well as actively seeking collaboration cross functionally.
• Firm believer in solid structures, frameworks and policies; creativity and innovations are no contradiction.
• Have experience in policies writing and is proficient in corporate communications.

Additional Information

If you feel that your passion, personal values, ambition and experience are a match - please apply (including Cover Letter, Resume, and if applicable: 360 Leadership Feedback report, Strengths Finder, Myers Briggs). We're more about personality and competence than qualifications, so don't worry if your skills aren't a perfect match.

This position is based Singapore Office and will report to Regional HR Manager.