Director, Business HR – APJ

Intel Corporation; Penang; Hybrid; MYR 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Malaysia (Penang) seeks a Director, Business HR to serve as a senior strategic advisor to APJ business leaders. You will drive organizational effectiveness, leadership accountability, and workforce productivity across complex programs.

You will partner with VPs and senior leaders to shape talent strategy, build lean organizations, and deliver outcomes that accelerate product execution and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading HR strategy for large, global technology or manufacturing organisations.
• Proven ability to translate talent decisions into business outcomes.
• Strong expertise in HR data analytics, governance, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior executives on organization design, talent strategy, and workforce decisions.
• Align talent initiatives with business priorities, roadmaps, and growth objectives.
• Lead organizational design and workforce transformation to improve execution.
• Build succession pipelines and leadership development across the organization.
• Drive governance, accountability, and risk management across the HR function.

Skills

HR leadership

Executive advisory

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Organizational design

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

PhD (extremely rare)

Tools

HR analytics tools

Job description

Job Details: Job Description:

Role Summary

The Director, Business HR is the senior strategic advisor to one of the New Intel's most critical organizations across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Partnering directly with Vice Presidents and senior leaders, this role accelerates business performance, product execution, organizational effectiveness, and leadership accountability. A highly influential business leader, this individual combines deep HR expertise, commercial acumen, and transformation capability to build lean, high-performing organizations that deliver results. Success is measured through organizational effectiveness, talent quality, leadership strength, workforce productivity, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise senior executives on New Intel organization, talent, and workforce decisions that improve business and product outcomes.
• Align talent and workforce strategies to business priorities, product roadmaps, and growth objectives.
• Influence decision-making through data, business insight, and constructive challenge.

Organizational Transformation

• Lead organizational design and workforce transformation initiatives that simplify, accelerate, and improve execution.
• Eliminate complexity, strengthen accountability, and improve operating effectiveness.
• Build lean, scalable organizations optimized for performance and growth.

Talent and Leadership

• Develop strong succession pipelines for key leadership and technical talent.
• Raise the talent bar through differentiated talent and performance strategies.
• Attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering, technical, and business talent.

Execution, Governance and Stewardship

• Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and execution excellence.
• Uphold the highest standards of governance, compliance, and integrity.
• Balance business urgency with prudent risk management and long‑term value creation.

Site Leadership and Multi Regional Collaboration

• Lead across organizational, geographic, and functional boundaries to deliver enterprise outcomes.
• Align leaders, teams, and stakeholders around business priorities, product success, and execution excellence.
• Break down silos, accelerate decision‑making, and strengthen accountability across the matrix.
• Build empowered teams that operate with ownership, sound judgment, and high performance.
• Serve as the strategic HR partner to APJ business, design centre, and country leaders, advancing organizational capability, leadership effectiveness, and site success.

Experience and Leadership Profile

• 15+ years of HR leadership experience supporting global technology, semiconductor, engineering, or manufacturing organizations.
• Proven success leading large‑scale transformation, workforce optimisation, and organisational redesign.
• Deep expertise in organisational design, succession planning, workforce strategy, leadership development and change leadership.
• Strong business and financial acumen with a track record of translating talent decisions into business results.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and change while maintaining execution discipline.
• Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across global matrix organisations.

Leadership Expectations

• Putting Intel first.
• Driving disciplined execution and accountability.
• Building lean, agile, high‑performing organisations.
• Challenging the status quo to improve speed, simplicity, and results.
• Making principled decisions grounded in business impact and sound judgement.
• Developing exceptional leaders and strong teams.
• Balancing stakeholder expectations with the long‑term success of Intel, its products, and customers.

This leader will help strengthen Intel's competitive advantage by building organisations that execute faster, operate leaner, innovate better, and consistently deliver world class product and business outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, and 20+ years of progressive HR experience; OR Master's degree with 18+ years of HR experience; OR PhD with 15+ years of HR experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in HR strategy development, talent management, and workforce planning for large, complex organisations.
• Proficiency in leveraging HR data and analytics to inform decision‑making and drive impactful organisational outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of HR policies, practices, and regulatory compliance requirements on a global scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing HR teams and foster employee engagement across diverse geographies.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with experience advising senior executives and influencing organisational direction.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with a deep understanding of the interplay between HR strategies and business objectives.
• Track record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within HR practices and driving meaningful change in organisational culture.

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location

Malaysia, Penang

Additional Locations

India, Bangalore

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

This role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law), extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internals, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on‑site at their assigned Intel site and off‑site.

Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.