■About The Job
The Japan HR Business Partner is an internal consultant providing an enabling business partnership role to leaders and managers in Japan, by embedding the company’s corporate HR strategy and employee experience into the culture and leadership behaviours.
The role is a trusted partner in the aligned local leadership team. They own the local client relationship and provide the ‘voice of the customer’ back to the Function HRBPs, Region HRBP and respective COEs.
HRBP supports client’s team organization effectiveness by addressing the people challenges and developing and implementing solutions aligned to strategy. Supported by data and analytics, provides professional HR guidance and support to the clients with advice, programmes and value-added interventions.
■Principle Responsibilities
• Contributes to the business strategy by helping business leaders in Japan to identify, prioritise, and build organisational capabilities, behaviours, structures and processes with overall aim being to create the best Employee Experience and help the company win in the marketplace
• Understands key business performance targets and their related talent implications with business leaders in Japan
• Understands and anticipates the need for change, diagnoses the underlying issues and builds the case for change with stakeholders. Builds frameworks to plan and manage the continuous process of change including dependencies, risks, potential scenarios and options to mitigate etc.
• Facilitates and embeds HR initiatives aligned with the business agenda of local leaders
• Supports the local leaders in forecasting and planning their talent pipeline requirements in line with the function or business strategy
• Partners with Function HRBP and HR COEs to provide support on the design and implementation of new and cyclical programmes at the local level
• Partners with the Function HRBP and HR COEs to identify and oversee the implementation of training and development at the local level
• Partner with Reward CoE to ensure that the Reward (compensation and benefits) of Japan are competitive ensuring equity externally and internally across functions/BU
• Assists local leaders in providing employees with development opportunities that aligned with current and future business needs
• Develops and promotes ongoing feedback mechanisms for employees to influence the continuous improvement of HR services and processes
• Facilitates a strong leadership and coaching culture
• Provides expert advice and coaching to local leaders on people management issues; including employee relations matters, grievances handling, talent opportunities and challenges, talent engagement etc.
• Provides data, insight on employee engagement; guides and supports local leaders on actions required to address gaps to improve the overall engagement in Japan
• Understands and solicits employee opinions and anticipates their needs and concerns
• Identifies and drives sharing of best practices across Japan to facilitate continuous improvement
• Acts as a liaison between the local leaders and HR to ensure that HR strategy and services are aligned with internal client needs
• Builds relationships and form alliances with external counterparts, communities of practice and stakeholders to scan for innovations and improvement opportunities
• Shares knowledge of progressive HR practices and key trends
• Leads /supports specific projects as determined in the HR strategic plan
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