HR Team Lead (People Operations)

Pop Meals; Selangor; On-site; MYR 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing food brand startup in Malaysia is looking for an experienced HR Generalist to manage HR functions, oversee payroll, conduct onboarding, and promote a positive company culture. Candidates should have at least 5 years in HR management, with strong skills in payroll and talent development. You will join an ambitious team focused on building a leading food brand in Southeast Asia, offering competitive salary and growth opportunities within the organization.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Fast career progression

Approachable senior leadership

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a hands-on HR generalist in fast-growing organizations.
• Experience in payroll, compensation & benefits, and talent management.
• Thorough understanding of labor laws and HR regulations in Malaysia.
• Very positive, energetic, and able to build authentic relationships.
• Strong executional capability supported by a strategic mindset.

Responsibilities

• Promote employer branding and ensure competitive compensation offerings.
• Oversee onboarding processes to enhance new hire experiences.
• Facilitate culture-building activities and team events.
• Implement effective performance management systems to identify and reward high performers.
• Manage end-to-end payroll and employee data in BrioHR.

Skills

HR generalist experience

Payroll management

Talent management

Excellent organizational skills

Fluent in English

Fluent in Bahasa

Education

Degree in Human Resources Management or related disciplines

Tools

BrioHR

Job description

Pop Meals is one of the fastest-growing food brand startups in Southeast Asia. Our mission is to make quality food accessible for everyone. We use data, automation and technology to redefine the traditional cost structure and to build the future of QSR. Having grown to 77 outlets within just a few years, our ambition is to expand to over 1000 outlets in the next 5 years.

Join us in building Southeast Asia’s next most-loved food brand - proudly started in Malaysia.

Your responsibilities

Employer branding: Get Pop Meals to be among the most desired employers to work for in Southeast Asia. Ensure that our compensation, benefits and professional development programs contribute to the attraction and retention of the highest-caliber talent.

Onboarding: “Wow” new hires with a great onboarding experience including among other things support hiring managers with a 30 day plan for every new employee and ensure that expectations between hiring manager and new employees are aligned.

Culture vulture: Develop and run rituals to reinforce the company culture and values and organises regular team building events and ensure a productive and enjoyable working environment for all employees.

Performance management: ensures that high performers are quickly identified and rewarded through implementation of and effective performance management systems including career development plans, frequent feedback systems and 1on1 with the direct reports are conducted.

Training and development: identify skill gaps and builds together with all department heads frequent and consistent training and continuous learning and plans and executes targeted training initiatives.

Compliance: ensure strict adherence to internal policies with regards to HR regulations and policies.

Payroll & HRIS: Own and manage end-to-end payroll for HQ employees using BrioHR, ensuring timely, accurate and compliant salary processing, statutory submissions (EPF, SOCSO, EIS, PCB) and maintenance of employee data, leave and claims in the system.

HQ Recruitment: Lead and execute end-to-end recruitment for HQ roles, including workforce planning with hiring managers, job postings, screening, interviews, offers and onboarding to ensure timely hiring of high-quality talent aligned to business needs.

Build: together with the executive team, build HR and people operations systems that scale with the company and team size including tracking and reporting of HR metrics. Hires and provides leadership to a high performing People Operations team.

Manage Employment Pass/Visa applications and maintaining high confidentiality of the information

You are

5 years experience as a hands-on HR generalist in fast growing organisations, preferably startups or other fast moving industries

Sound HR management experience of diverse functions such as payroll, compensation & benefits, talent management, organisational development

Experience in hiring preferred

Have a thorough understanding of labor laws and HR regulations in Malaysia

Very positive, energetic and easily connects with people and builds authentic relationships

Excellent organizational skills and proactiveness, ready to get your hands dirty and solve problems and build systems

High level of personal integrity and ethics

Willingness to work outside the comfort zone & being always up for challenges

Strong executional capability supported by strategic mindset

Degree in Human Resources Management or related disciplines preferred

Fluent in English and Bahasa

Why you should join us

Why you should work with us:

Competitive salary and flexibility in start/ end work time (to avoid peak traffic, accommodate your family needs or gym routine,...)

Ambitious and fast moving team with colleagues who are excited about intersection of finance, F&B and technology and to build a fast growing company

Fast career progression with plenty of opportunity to take on increasing responsibility quickly and to help you learn and grow your skill set

Opportunity to shape a brand and bring in your ideas across all functions of the business

Flat hierarchy with founders/ all senior leaders being approachable and accessible

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