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Kimberly-Clark

HR Business Partner

Bangkok, Thailand

HR Business Partner

Job Description

HR Business Partner

Your Job

You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In your HR Business Partner role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

1] Strategic Positioner

HR Consulting

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  • Manages multiple HR projects and diverse consulting relationships.
  • Evaluates HR solutions provided to leadership team and advises on further improvement plans.
  • Delegates line leadership team support quickly and effectively for HR issues.
  • Consults with leaders on a wide range of HR issues.

Relationship Management

  • Maintain productive, long-term relationships with leadership team
  • Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
  • Creates opportunities based on business unit priorities.
  • Communicates to leadership team regarding expectations of all parties.
  • Establish collaborative, close alignment of people strategy amongst business functions.

Business Acumen

  • Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals, measurement, and business finance.
  • Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
  • Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business, its interrelationships, and priorities.
  • Designs the organization's planning processes and decision-making channels.
  • Work with leadership team to develops relevant business cases.

2] Capability Builder

Employee Relations

  • Monitors employee relations benchmark such as engagement, retention and turnover.
  • Evaluates and updates practice for employee grievances, performance or disciplinary actions
  • Advises on employment rights when dealing with employee relations issues.
  • Consults leadership team on effective employee relations practices and strategies.
  • Plays a leadership role in delivery the full spectrum of employee relations functions.
  • Close collaboration with legal employment COE

Talent Management

  • Lead, develop and execute talent development agenda with the partnership of Talent Partner to drive development of internal talent pipeline through talent review & succession planning with talent partner support.
  • Evaluates all talent initiatives and ensures smooth processes for talent management programs.
  • Alignment with Regional Talent Team on executional strategy and initiatives.

Compensation Management

  • Oversees the implementation of compensation programs within the organization.
  • Advises the leadership team on compensation issues, such as pay structure.
  • Alignment with Regional C&B Team on executional Strategy and initiatives.

3] Change Champion

Organizational Change Management

  • Plans, implements, and manages change in a variety of significant settings.
  • Translates the desired organizational traits to tactical steps and procedures.
  • Communicates impact of changes.
  • Works with team to identify and remove obstacles to change.
  • Monitors effectiveness of the change effort including extent of acceptance.
  • Evaluates impact of changes outside across the organization.

Decision making and Critical Thinking

  • Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
  • Leverages experience in analyzing relevant data and assessing implications of alternatives.
  • Identifies decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
  • Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
  • Makes sure assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

4] Technology Proponent

Analytical Thinking

  • Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
  • Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
  • Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
  • Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
  • Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
  • Credible Activist

HR Policies, Standards and Procedures

  • Monitors organizational compliance of HR policies, standards and procedures.
  • Advises on existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on HR operations.
  • Evaluates the impact of standards and policies across functional specialties.
  • Manages change and helps organization adjust to unforeseen HR issues that arise.
  • Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards.
  • Directs the development of organizational policies and practices.

HR Legal and Regulatory Environment

  • Advises on federal, state or local laws and applies them to the organization.
  • Evaluates the organization's experiences and practices with associated legal ramifications.
  • Monitors costs and the operational aspects of legal requirements.
  • Facilitates compliance with regulatory and management reporting requirements.
  • Anticipates and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems.

HR Planning and Development

  • Collaborates with leadership team to formulate the organization's mission, vision and objectives.
  • Advises on strategic HR operations planning within the organization.
  • Provide guidance on forming relationships between HR functions and business units.
  • Evaluates best practices of HR planning and development within the industry to learn their practices and rationales.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands-and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn't exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you'll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We're founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there's your open door of opportunity. It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You're also a university graduate with a HR Business Partner or other related field and have at least 5 years of continuous work experience. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you'll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Essential Requirements:

  • 5-7 years' experience in HR, preferably with a mix of experience as a generalist, HRBP & COE in matrix organization
  • Exceptional influencing skills and interpersonal sensitivity that will foster effective cross-cultural
  • Knowledge and experience of Thailand employment legislation is essential
  • Knowledge of Talent attraction and talent management best practices
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to influence without direct authority
  • Able to develop strategic plan to resolve systematic organization issue while being able to take a hands-on approach to execute.

Travel:

  • As required, up to 20%

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you'll enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

  • Competitive salary and incentives: We offer a competitive salary and a range of incentives, including bonus opportunities and flexible work options.
  • Fantastic range of benefits: Our benefits package is second to none, with everything from health & life insurance, dental & vision care, employee assistance program, paid time off, well-being activities, and more.
  • A culture of caring: We believe that a happy and healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so we offer a variety of programs and resources to support our employees' well-being.

To Be Considered
Click the "Apply" button and complete our online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and be in touch if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, check out our careers website to learn more about our company and the position. You'll want to be prepared with relevant questions when you move on to the interview stage.

And finally, the fine print...
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role's country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location

Thailand-Bangkok

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Client-provided location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
Job ID: KimberlyClark-867064
Employment Type: Full Time