Regional HR Manager (Employee Relations)

The LEGO Group; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global toy manufacturing company in Singapore is seeking an experienced Employee Relations professional to support policy design and foster a great working environment. This role involves case management, compliance assurance, and developing employee engagement initiatives across APAC. Candidates should have 8 years of relevant HR experience and strong collaborative influencing skills. The position offers attractive benefits, including enhanced paid leave, insurance coverage, and a hybrid work policy.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Access to wellness initiatives

Generous colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience in a Site HR role.
• Experience in D&I work and employee engagement is a plus.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across various teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee relations cases and provide advice to managers.
• Ensure compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement employee engagement programs across APAC.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Collaborative management

Understanding of APAC labor market

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 partners 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.