Philippines HR Manager — Site Leader & ER Expert

Moatable, Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Moatable, Inc. is seeking a dedicated HR Manager to serve as the Philippines site HR leader. The role focuses on complex employee relations, compliance, and strategic workforce planning to translate APAC HR strategy into day-to-day site execution.

You will partner with site leadership, coach HRBPs, and own onboarding and calibration processes, ensuring high-quality HR operations and risk management across the Philippines site.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including ownership of complex employee relations cases
• Experience in a multi-BU or matrixed HR structure
• Strong knowledge of Philippine labor law and HR compliance requirements
• Proven ability to coach and develop HRBPs or other HR team members
• Comfortable making high-stakes, judgment-based decisions and owning the outcome
• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to partner credibly with site leadership
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary HR partner to Philippines site leadership, translating APAC HR strategy into day-to-day site execution
• Own workforce planning for the Philippines site
• Coach and develop the HR Team Lead and HRBPs on complex people situations
• Own investigation and resolution of complex or high-risk ER cases, and site-level policy interpretation questions
• Serve as the escalation point when an ER case requires judgment beyond BU-level HRBP ownership
• Ensure ER cases involving cross-BU or precedent-setting decisions are handled consistently across the site
• Own site-level HR compliance risk review, escalating regulatory issues as needed
• Partner with Legal and the HR Director on issues that carry compliance exposure beyond a single business unit
• Step in on senior or critical hires and on offer approvals that fall beyond BU-level authority
• Conduct onboarding quality reviews and resolve cross-department onboarding issues
• Monitor site-wide completion of the New Hire Program (365-Day Journey) and flag gaps to the HR Director
• Own cross-BU calibration consistency during performance review cycles
• Resolve calibration disputes between business units
• Own vendor-level escalations and policy exceptions for benefits administration (e.g., HMO)
• Support delivery of the bi-monthly leadership best-practice sharing session and related executive coaching initiatives
• Draft sections and provide site-level input on policy reviews and business playbooks ahead of HR Director sign-off
• Model the Own / Support / Develop delegation framework across the site HR team
• Ensure delegation transfers tasks, not accountability — remaining accountable for anything delegated downward that reaches this level

Skills

HR leadership

Employee relations

Labor law Philippines

Coaching HRBPs

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Moatable, Inc. is seeking a dedicated HR Manager to serve as the Philippines site HR leader. The role focuses on complex employee relations, compliance, and strategic workforce planning to translate APAC HR strategy into day-to-day site execution.

You will partner with site leadership, coach HRBPs, and own onboarding and calibration processes, ensuring high-quality HR operations and risk management across the Philippines site.