People Partner - BU Execution (APAC)

Strategic Business Partnership & Advisory

• Serve as the primary People Partner to the NPE Business Unit leadership team and act as a trusted advisor on all people, leadership, and organizational matters.
• Translate divisional People priorities into a business-unit-specific people strategy and roadmap aligned to growth, productivity, and transformation objectives.
• Partner with leaders to optimize organizational structures, roles, operating models, reporting lines, and workforce effectiveness.
• Provide strategic guidance on organizational trade-offs, capability investments, workforce risks, and business performance challenges.
• Drive data-informed decision making through workforce analytics, talent insights, and organizational diagnostics.

Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition Leadership

• Lead strategic workforce and capability planning for the business unit, ensuring alignment with short- and long-term business priorities.
• Identify current and future capability requirements and develop plans to address talent and skills gaps.
• Own workforce demand planning and hiring strategy across the business unit.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and hiring leaders to ensure effective recruitment outcomes for critical and business-impacting roles.
• Drive proactive talent pipelining and succession strategies to strengthen organizational resilience and future readiness.

Talent, Leadership & Performance Excellence

• Lead and facilitate talent review, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development processes within the business unit.
• Identify critical roles, high-potential talent, and succession risks, ensuring sustainable leadership pipelines.
• Coach leaders on performance management, talent decisions, leadership effectiveness, and team development.
• Connect business needs with enterprise learning and development solutions, including leadership programs, capability academies, and targeted development initiatives.
• Foster a high-performance culture characterized by accountability, engagement, continuous development, and inclusion.

Organizational Change & Transformation

• Partner with leaders to design and implement organization-wide and business-unit transformation initiatives.
• Support change management efforts related to operating model evolution, digital transformation, restructuring, workforce transitions, and culture initiatives.
• Build organizational readiness and leadership capability to successfully navigate change.
• Ensure business-unit initiatives align with enterprise people priorities and broader transformation programs.

Governance & People Ecosystem Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with People Solutions, Talent Acquisition, People Services, and local People Partners to deliver seamless people support and execution.
• Ensure compliance with applicable labor laws, employment regulations, and employee representation requirements.
• Balance local business needs with enterprise standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Provide ongoing feedback and insights regarding workforce trends, organizational risks, talent challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• Act as a steward of the employee experience while maintaining strong business alignment.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant experience as a strategic HR Business Partner or People Partner supporting senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success partnering with business leaders in complex, matrixed, and international organizations.
• Strong experience in workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change, transformation, and culture initiatives.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving difficult people-related decisions with credibility and confidence.
• Strong understanding of employment legislation and employee relations principles.
• Experience working within a shared services and Centers of Excellence operating model.
• Experience with Workday or similar HCM platforms.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred

• Experience supporting engineering, technology, industrial, manufacturing, or project-driven businesses.
• Exposure to regional or global business environments across multiple countries.
• Strong business acumen and commercial mindset
• Strategic workforce planning expertise
• Organizational design and effectiveness capability
• Executive stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Analytical and data-driven decision making
• Courage to challenge and shape leadership decisions
• Change leadership and transformation expertise
• Talent and succession management excellence
• Strong collaboration across complex matrix organizations
• High integrity, sound judgment, and confidentiality
• Pragmatic execution with a strong focus on business outcomes

What Great Looks Like

A successful People Partner in NPE is recognized by business leaders as a trusted strategic advisor, anticipates workforce and organizational challenges before they impact performance, builds strong leadership capability, and ensures the business has the talent, structure, and culture required to achieve its growth ambitions.