Senior HRBP (Malacca)

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) is a strategic member of the Divisional Senior Leadership Team (SLT), responsible for leading the people agenda across operations in Malaysia, Singapore, and India. This role partners closely with the General Manager, divisional leadership team, and Group HR to deliver an integrated people strategy that supports business growth, operational excellence, organisational capability, and employee engagement.

The HRBP owns the end-to-end employee lifecycle across the division, ensuring consistent HR standards, local compliance, and a high-performing culture while balancing regional business needs with global frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted advisor to the General Manager and SLT on all people, culture, and organisational matters.
• Drive workforce planning, organisational design, succession planning, and talent strategies to support growth.
• Provide insight and challenge to leaders on structure, capability, leadership effectiveness, and culture.

Team Leadership

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of HR professionals across Malaysia, Singapore, and India.
• Set clear objectives, provide coaching, and build capability within the HR team to ensure high performance.
• Foster collaboration and consistency of HR practices across all sites.

End-to-End Employee Lifecycle Ownership

• Lead recruitment and talent acquisition activity in partnership with hiring managers.
• Oversee onboarding and induction to ensure a strong employee experience.
• Manage performance management processes, objective setting, calibration, and development planning.
• Lead annual compensation and reward cycles in collaboration with Group HR.
• Drive learning, leadership development, and career progression initiatives.
• Oversee employee relations matters, disciplinary processes, grievances, and investigations.
• Manage offboarding, retention analysis, and exit feedback to improve employee experience.

Culture, Engagement & Change

• Build an inclusive, high-performance culture across geographically diverse teams.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives and action planning following surveys.
• Support business transformation, restructuring, acquisitions, or growth initiatives as required.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure HR practices comply with employment legislation in Malaysia, Singapore, and India.
• Maintain full compliance for foreign worker employment, visas, work permits, immigration sponsorships, renewals, and associated regulatory obligations across all three sites.
• Manage legal risk and policy implementation.
• Maintain robust HR governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
• Ensure consistent application of policies while recognising local market requirements.

Collaboration with Group HR

• Implement group-wide HR programmes, policies, and initiatives within the division.
• Provide feedback from the division to shape global HR priorities and solutions.
• Ensure alignment between divisional execution and group-wide people strategy.

Experience

• Significant HR Business Partnering experience within a multi-site, international environment. Experience supporting senior leaders and operating as part of an SLT or executive leadership team.
• Proven delivery across the full HR lifecycle.
• Strong experience across APAC markets, ideally including Malaysia, Singapore, and India.
• Experience managing organisational change, scaling businesses, or transformation programmes.
• Commercially astute with strong business acumen.
• Strong foreign worker compliance, immigration, and employee relations capability across multiple jurisdictions.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
• Able to operate strategically while remaining hands-on and delivery focused.
• Degree qualified in HR, Business, Psychology, or related discipline.
• CIPD or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

If you strive for an atmosphere of inclusion, collaboration and innovation that enables individuals to contribute to the overall success of the business through their unique strengths, skills and talents, then this Senior HRBP role is for you.

Click Apply now or email me today at lindy.ho@robertwalters.com.my to discuss this new opportunity.

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Agensi Pekerjaan Robert Walters Sdn Bhd
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Licence Number : JTKSM 423C