Strategic HR Business Partner — Manufacturing Growth

Kerry; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerry, a world-leading taste and nutrition company, is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner for our Tampoi site in Malaysia. You will drive organizational effectiveness, talent development and employee engagement while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

You will collaborate with business leaders to align people strategies with business goals, coach leaders, and partner with COEs and Talent Acquisition to shape leadership pipelines and change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive HR experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably within a multinational setting.
• Strong knowledge of Malaysian labor laws and industrial relations practices.
• Proven ability to lead change, influence stakeholders, and manage complex employee relations.
• Experience with audit processes related to food industry standards (SMETA, ISO, HACCP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of organizational effectiveness priorities and initiatives in line with business strategy and plans.
• Responsible for the people and organization-design related aspects of change programs.
• Monitor and interpret key indicators of organizational effectiveness and ensure plans are in place to course-correct as needed.
• Coach & partner with business leaders on their role in leading organizational effectiveness.
• Support the site in delivering high performance and meeting key performance indicators.
• Aligned with business strategy, deliver talent priorities which includes coaching people leaders in talent planning, talent identification, talent pipelines, organizational planning and performance.
• Partner with COEs in driving effectiveness of people leader skill and leadership competencies.
• Partner with talent acquisition team in strategic resourcing requirements, work with leaders to validate open roles, coaching and challenging where necessary on requirements for new or replacement roles.
• Participate in the assessment and selection process for critical / key leadership roles.
• Leverage Reward Programs to drive business performance and employee engagement which includes compensation, benefits and recognition.
• Partner with Reward COE on appropriate solutions to address business needs.
• Consult, partner, coach Business Leaders re Total Reward decisions.
• Provide business insights to influence Reward COE strategy.
• A people champion who understands people’s needs from all levels.
• Partner with and coach people leaders and Unions in building and maintaining an inclusive work environment.
• Coach & Support People Leaders on the execution of our Voice (Employee Survey) Engagement Plans.
• Ensure compliance in employee relations and international labor standard (SMETA or RBA), develop action plans to remediate issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Employee Relations issues.
• Partner with COE and GBS in driving excellent employee experience.
• May require to take on regional and continuous improvement projects.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

Change management

Audit readiness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in HR/Business

Job description

Kerry, a world-leading taste and nutrition company, is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner for our Tampoi site in Malaysia. You will drive organizational effectiveness, talent development and employee engagement while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

You will collaborate with business leaders to align people strategies with business goals, coach leaders, and partner with COEs and Talent Acquisition to shape leadership pipelines and change initiatives.