About Agoda
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.
Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.
No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.
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The Opportunity:
As the Lead HR Business Partner for [Region/Department], you will be the primary HR partner to the regional General Manager and Commercial Leadership Team/OR partner the Department Head and their Leadership Team. Your mission is to translate business strategy into people solutions that drive commercial results, build high-performing teams, and foster a culture of accountability and growth. You’ll be a key member of a small regional HRBP team, partner closely with global HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), and ensure HR operations run smoothly and compliantly. This is a hands-on, visible role where you’ll balance strategic influence with practical delivery, making a direct impact on business outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Strategic Business Partnering:
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Serve as a trusted advisor to the regional General Manager/Leadership team, understanding business goals and challenges.
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Shape and execute a regional People Roadmap that aligns with both global and local business priorities, focusing on talent, culture, and organizational effectiveness.
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Anticipate business needs and proactively recommend HR solutions that support revenue growth, customer focus, and market expansion.
Talent Management & Succession:
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Lead talent identification, development, and succession planning to ensure a strong leadership pipeline and critical role coverage.
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Partner with leaders to drive workforce planning, organizational design, and change management initiatives that keep the business agile and competitive.
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Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all talent processes.
Performance, Engagement & Culture:
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Drive the performance management cycle, ensuring clear goal-setting, feedback, and accountability.
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Use engagement data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities; develop and implement action plans to improve team health and retention.
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Foster a culture of feedback, continuous learning, and high performance, aligned with BPD values.
Employee Relations & Compliance:
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Partner with the Employee Relations Centre of Excellence on employee relations cases, ensuring fair, timely, and compliant resolution of issues.
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Provide guidance on local labor law, policy interpretation, and risk management, partnering with COEs and legal as needed.
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Ensure HR practices are consistent, scalable, and compliant with both company standards and local regulations.
Team Leadership & Development:
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Mentor junior HR colleagues, building HR capability and fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
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Role model Booking Partner Divisions’s values and leadership behaviors.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:
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Build strong relationships with global HR COEs, HR Operations, and other regional HRBPs to ensure alignment and knowledge sharing.
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Represent the region in global HR forums and projects, contributing regional insights and advocating for local needs.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, or related field (Master’s preferred*).
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8–10 years of progressive HR experience, including 3–5 years in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role.
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Demonstrated experience supporting commercial, sales, partnerships, or B2B teams in a fast-paced, matrixed, or global environment.
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Strong commercial acumen and ability to connect people strategies to business outcomes.
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Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving organizational change.
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Advanced skills in talent management, workforce planning, performance management, and employee relations.
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Data-driven mindset, comfortable using HR analytics to inform decisions and measure impact.
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Excellent communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
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Hands-on, pragmatic approach, willing to roll up sleeves and deliver results.
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Experience managing or mentoring HR professionals.
Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.
We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.
Disclaimer
We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.
