Manager, People Business Partner

Inchcape Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health & life insurance

Vehicle purchase discounts

Job summary

Inchcape Singapore is seeking a Manager, People Business Partner to shape the employee experience across the lifecycle. You will partner with senior leaders to align people initiatives with business goals and drive practical, data-informed HR solutions.

In this role you will lead workforce planning, organisation design and talent development, while ensuring compliant employee relations and a supportive culture. A collaborative, strategic partner is essential.

Qualifications

• Broad HR experience including as People Business Partner or equivalent.
• Ability to partner with senior stakeholders and hiring managers to build trust and provide credible advice.
• Experience in change initiatives and restructures with focus on people implications.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders, providing pragmatic People advice and insight.
• Translate business strategy into a forward-looking People plan with clear priorities and measures.
• Use data and external context to identify trends and inform decisions.
• Lead workforce planning and contribute to annual people-cost forecast aligned with objectives.
• Advise on organisation design, role clarity, spans and resourcing options.
• Identify critical roles and develop succession pipelines and high-performing teams.
• Guide managers through performance, salary reviews and promotions with governance.
• Coach leaders on people-management, career conversations and inclusive leadership.
• Develop targeted plans including coaching, learning and internal mobility.
• Provide expert advice on employee relations, ensuring compliant outcomes and risk mitigation.
• Lead local policy reviews and alignment with Group principles and local requirements.
• Partner with leadership to deliver engagement and culture priorities and effective communications.
• Design workshops and interventions to support the colleague lifecycle and manager capability.

Skills

People Business Partner

Stakeholder management

Change management

Employee relations

Communication skills

Project management

Job description

Are you looking to accelerate your professional development, build a brilliant career, and thrive in a highly supportive team? At Inchcape, we're pursuing an ambitious strategy to evolve our global business and lead our industry's transformation.

You'll play a key part in delivering great experiences for our customers and colleagues. With lots of interesting opportunities and challenges for you to explore that will take us, and your progression, to the next level.

Our People team is seeking a Manager, People Business Partner to drive a seamless and positive employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle. With care and empathy at the core, this role will focus on developing efficient processes, systems, and programs that support and enhance our people journey.

What you will do:

• Build trusted relationships with business and functional leaders, providing credible challenge, insight and pragmatic People advice on business priorities and people implications.
• Translate Inchcape’s business strategy into a forward-looking People plan, with clear priorities, outcomes, risks and measures of success.
• Use people data, organisational insight and external context to identify trends, inform decisions and recommend targeted interventions.

Workforce and organisation planning

• Lead workforce planning and contribute to the annual people-cost forecast, developing sustainable short-, medium- and long-term plans aligned with business objectives.
• Advise on organisation design, role clarity, spans and layers, capability requirements and resourcing options to support effective and efficient delivery.

Talent, performance and capability

• Partner with leaders to identify critical roles, talent and capability gaps, strengthen succession pipelines, and develop high-performing teams.
• Guide managers through performance, salary review, bonus and promotion processes, ensuring consistency with Group methodologies and sound governance.
• Coach leaders and managers to improve people-management capability, including career conversations, performance management, inclusive leadership and effective team development.
• Develop targeted plans incorporating coaching, mentoring, learning and internal mobility to build capability and retain key talent.

Employee relations, policy and risk

• Provide expert advice and manage complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes and strengthening manager capability through coaching.
• Maintain strong knowledge of Singapore employment legislation and industrial relations practices, proactively identifying and mitigating people-related risk.
• Lead the local review, implementation and continuous improvement of our People policies, ensuring alignment with Group principles, local requirements and a positive colleague experience.

Engagement, culture and colleague experience

• Partner with the leadership team to develop and deliver colleague engagement and culture priorities, responding visibly and meaningfully to colleague feedback.
• Design and facilitate workshops and interventions with leaders and managers that support the colleague lifecycle, organisational priorities and manager capability.
• Contribute to clear, timely and inclusive People communications, helping colleagues understand changes, priorities and available support.

About you:

• Someone with broad HR experience, including experience operating as a People Business Partner; experience supporting corporate functions such as Finance, Marketing or IT is advantageous.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with senior stakeholders and hiring managers, building trust and providing credible advice.
• Experience in supporting and implementing organisational change initiatives and restructures, with a strong understanding of the people implications.
• Excellent understanding of employee relations principles, Singapore employment legislation and industrial relations experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

We offer you:

• Benefit from clear career paths, continuous learning & MNC Exposure
• Access comprehensive health and life insurance (including dependent in health insurance)
• Enjoy exclusive colleague perks, including discounts on vehicle purchases and more.