Regional HR Manager (Employee Relations)

The LEGO Group; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global toy company in Singapore is seeking an experienced Employee Relations Manager. This role involves managing employee relations cases, ensuring compliance with labor laws, and driving employee engagement initiatives. The ideal candidate has at least 8 years of experience in HR and strong communication skills. The position offers a hybrid work model with attractive benefits including family care leave and wellness programs.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellness initiatives

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience in a Site HR role.
• Understanding of APAC Market labor market, focusing on Singapore.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Experience in D&I work and organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee relations cases and provide advisory support.
• Ensure HR policies comply with local laws and regulations.
• Work on employee engagement projects and improve workplace culture.
• Coach Site leads on consistent employee relations management.

Skills

Employee engagement

Compliance management

Strong communication

Collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Are you an agile and immersive Employee Relations professional; supporting policy design, advisory and investigations?

Bring your captivating high energy to ensure fairness in the ecosystem, staying forefront with inclusive practices and initiating value‑adding projects in a matrix organization!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

Employee Engagement & Relations

• Case management of the employee relations cases that are escalated / reported
• Advice and support managers and employees to build a great working environment
• Building the knowledge & database for employee relations (Eg, performance management, disciplinary practices) practices in APAC

Compliance

• Interact closely with HR, Legal, and external parties to ensure that HR policies and processes are in compliance with laws
• Regularly assess and partner with the legal team to recommend changes to existing policies and draft and / or develop new policies based on legislative and regulatory developments, provide direction, notification and communication to employees and manager
• Lead subject area process and records. Collaborating with Global in rolling out regional policies
• Performs periodic audits to maintain compliance obligation are met and work with HR and Business team to implement the recommendation, action plans resulting from audits.
• Collaborate with Business Service Operations (BSO) / Payroll on completing outcome of cases

Other HR Tasks / Projects

• Work closely with PPC Director on developing, implementing and evaluating various PPC programs, HR functions and activities (D&I, G3P)
• Work on Singapore Hub engagement related activities and projects
• Coach / Advise Site leads across APAC on consistent employee relations management

Ensures right capability & proficiencies of ER team

• Partner and provide support to People Partners of global functions having their teams in Singapore on ER agenda and employee cases

Play your part in our team succeeding!

This role is part of the ‘People Partnering team’ as part of the PPC organization.

People Partnering organization covers HR / People / Business partnering and also local operations that includes employee relations, benefits, policies and execution. The partnering organization is responsible for developing and deploying the people & culture agenda in line with the company strategic direction. The operations organization serves as a backbone to enable the partners and the business in providing relevant solutions on people processes respecting geographical and site nuances.

Key collaborators include the APAC Market group leadership team, APAC leaders, ELT people partners, Singapore Hub leadership team. Manager, Employee Relations as a position is critical to ensure consistency in flawless execution of people processes within APAC. As part of the partnering and operations team, it’s a significant role that supports consistent execution and understanding of employee relations in All APAC markets with a main focus on Singapore.

It’s a substantial role in building the right practices and fundamentals across APAC.

Do you have what it takes

• 8 years of relevant experience and Site HR role (driving similar responsibilities as above)
• Understanding of APAC Market labour market (Priority focus on Singapore, Australia / NZ)
• Strong communication skills both written & verbal
• Very strong collaborator management & collaborative influencing
• Experience in D&I work, Employee engagement, Organisational change will be a plus

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.