Hybrid People & Culture Director

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About the role

  • Partner with leadership to shape an efficient organizational structure aligned to profitability and growth
  • Drive workforce productivity through automation, digital tools, and lean team design
  • Establish clear metrics for payroll efficiency and people ROI year-on-year
  • Build succession plans for critical roles and high-potential talent
  • Develop career frameworks and internal mobility programs that both retain talent and future-proof leadership pipelines
  • Lead talent acquisition and employer branding to attract top consumer and retail talent in the region
  • Design incentive KPI programs that directly drive business performance and culture (profitability, productivity, collaboration)
  • Develop a holistic rewards framework: compensation benchmarking, benefits, ESOS schemes to retain great talent and incentivize the right behaviour
  • Regularly benchmark pay across SEA markets, ensuring competitiveness and efficiency
  • Build impactful L&D programs particularly in product knowledge, data and AI skills, effective communication and leadership
  • Introduce scalable, self-driven learning models to upskill both retail and corporate teams.
  • Cultivate leadership capabilities to prepare the next generation of leaders
  • Champion our culture as a lever of productivity and retention
  • Design intentional engagement initiatives across countries (onsite + virtual) that build connection, collaboration, and fun
  • Act as a storyteller and culture amplifier — ensuring our values are lived, not just written
  • Build employee trust and clarity through transparent communication and employee-centric operations; partner with leadership for quarterly townhalls
  • Lead any change management initiatives
  • Prepare the organization for IPO/trade sale readiness through people and culture practices
  • Oversee office operations and facilities
  • Oversee country HRs to ensure compliance with workplace safety and health standards.
  • Manage landlord contracts and office procurement

Requirements

  • 10–15 years’ experience in HR/People leadership roles, with multi-market Asia exposure
  • Proven ability to balance strategy and execution in a lean, fast-paced company with both corporate and retail/service workforce
  • Track record of building high-performing teams while managing payroll efficiently
  • Strong expertise in compensation, rewards, and incentive design
  • Experienced in culture-building, engagement, and employer branding
  • Skilled in change management (automation, restructuring, integration of new businesses)
  • Data-driven, comfortable with HR analytics and productivity metrics
  • Executive presence — able to represent People strategy at board level
  • Bonus: prior exposure to group/house-of-brands environments and M&A
  • Bonus: prior exposure to creating ESOS frameworks
  • **You should have / be**
  • Strategic Partner: Aligns people strategy with business priorities, positioning HR as a growth enabler rather than just a support function
  • Systems Thinker: Designs, scales, and continuously improves HR processes (e.g. onboarding, performance, compensation cycles) with clarity, structure, and efficiency
  • Operational Excellence: Ensures compliance, consistency, and reliability across all people operations—payroll, benefits, policies, HR systems, as well as strategic oversight of office facilities, workplace safety, and budgets
  • Influential Communicator: Earns trust and credibility with the C-suite, managers, and employees. Able to influence, mediate, and drive alignment across all levels
  • Data-Informed: Uses people metrics and workforce analytics to drive decisions on retention, engagement, workforce planning, and compensation equity
  • Builder with Growth Mindset: Thrives in ambiguity. Proactively creates structure, playbooks, and scalable tools in a fast-changing environment. Believes in continuous learning and improvement
  • Strong Judgment & Integrity: Navigates sensitive employee situations and conflict with empathy, fairness, and emotional intelligence
  • Regional & Cultural Fluency: Understands labor laws, norms, and cultural differences across SEA and adapts policies and programs accordingly, ensuring global HR alignment with country HR teams.
  • People Developer: Coaches leaders to lead better and builds a strong, capable HR team with clear career paths and development opportunities
  • Culture Champion: Brings company values to life through rituals, leadership behaviours, and people programs; safeguards and evolves culture as the business grows

Job title

People & Culture Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridSingapore

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