HR Business Partner

Reckitt; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an HR Partner to join their team in Kuala Lumpur. You will drive HR strategy and employee lifecycle initiatives while partnering with leadership to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. Your experience in managing change and employee relations will be key in shaping the future of HR in the organization.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance for all employees

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ combined experience in a HR function as a business partner.
• Knowledge of local labor legislation required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive talent strategy and initiatives across the employee lifecycle.
• Advise and coach managers on people-related issues.
• Lead local change management and diversity agenda.

Skills

Employee relations

Labour legislation

Diversity and inclusion

Coaching skills

Change management

Education

Degree from a recognized university

Tools

SAP Success Factor

MS Office

PowerBi

Job description

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance.

Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time.

Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Partnering with a dedicated business function, you’ll be responsible for the HR agenda delivery for your assigned client group within the commercial business, working in partnership with a dynamic leadership team to drive HR strategy.

Your responsibilities

• A trusted HR advisor to the business in driving talent strategy and initiatives on employee lifecycle from attraction, recruitment, retention and development.
• Advice, coach and mentor managers on people related issues. Act as change agent and facilitate transition.
• Drive people agenda, this includes planning around performance management, talent, recognition, culture, leadership and diversity.
• Lead the Learning and Development (L&D) plan and execution to build leadership capabilities in the organization.
• Champion the change management activities to drive global HR transformation agenda.
• Champion the local activation of Reckitt’s global agenda on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)
• Understand and implement global HR policies, practices, and tools, ensuring managers are properly informed and trained.
• Accountable for HR data quality and leverage HR data for insights and action planning.
• Ensure compliance with all local labour laws and Global and Local HR policies
  

What challenges will you face?

• A big challenge is that the foundation of HR activities is somewhat fluid, so what may have been set on how to deal with an issue last year is not the way things need to be handled this year. You will need to stay on top of changing issues in addition to changing internal policies and processes in a dynamic organization such as Reckitt. Other challenges can include influencing stakeholders to see your point of views, blaance of compassion and practicality.

The experience we're looking for

• 5-7 years’ combined experience in a HR function as a business partner in MNC environment.
• A degree from a recognized university with knowledge of local labor legislation.
• Possess a can-do attitude and take initiative to handle and resolve issues independently and quickly.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact comfortably/competently with individuals at all levels of management to understand their business needs.
• Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail is a must; ability to work independently under general direction.
• Proficiency of SAP Success Factor, MS Office, and PowerBi. Any other additional technologies is an advantage.

The skills for success

Employee relations, Labour legislation, Strategic Mindset, Diversity and inclusion, Organisational structure, Coaching skills, Facilitation skills, Change management, Execute plans, Strategic mindset, Employment engagement, Digital literacy, Data and Analytics, Storytelling, Commercial acumen, Courageous leadership.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.