Apac HR Business Partner

**APAC HR Business Partner**

**About us**

Toluna delivers real-time consumer insights at the speed of the on-demand economy. By combining global scale and local expertise with innovative technology and award-winning research design, we help clients explore tomorrow, now.

Toluna is the parent company of Harris Interactive Europe and KuRunData. Together, we strive to push the field of market research toward a better tomorrow.

**Introduction**

We are recruiting for a forward-thinking HR Business Partner to collaborate with our key stakeholders (managing directors and heads of departments) and make a difference for our people across the Asia Pacific region.

Working closely with the Chief of People, the HR Business Partner will lead on key people projects and coach other members of the team within the relevant geographies and work to the following activities: Regional HR practices alignment, Employee Relations, Stakeholder Partnership, Wellness, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, Payroll/Finance reports, Employee Engagement, Compliance to local legislation. This role will manage two subordinates based in Kuala Lumpur.

**Responsibilities**:

- Acts as business partner/consultant providing advices in different HR disciplines to employees, line managers, APAC leaders
- Ensure day-by-day People lifecycle run smoothly across the Asia Pacific region: Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Australia including onboarding, training, health insurances, taxes, annual leaves management, offboarding,)
- Implement HR strategies, policies, and process by working closely with all function heads, and assisting line managers & employees to understand all policies and procedure
- Provide performance management guidance to line management (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).
- Work in collaboration with global Finance team (France based), local accounting team (India based) and local payroll providers to ensure accuracy and timely management of changes are fed into the Payroll process.
- Management of all HR initiatives for the region in collaboration with center of excellence (Operation, Talent Management and Learning & Development including engagement strategies; Diversity & Inclusion, Wellbeing, Employees survey
- Management of employee relations issues including grievance and disciplinary.
- Promote Toluna culture & values
- Implement an HR analytics culture across the organisation to analyse trends and metrics in collaboration with other geographies and participate in the development and implementation of the relevant programmes.
- Maintain healthy relationships across the business by conducting regular meetings with all stakeholders and facilitate communication across departments.
- Implement and be and advocate of the group’s compensation and reward programmes.
- Oversee the payroll process and overall people operations.
- Oversee the talent acquisition process

**Qualifications & Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or equivalent.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience as HR Business Partner, Senior Executive Human Resources or HR Generalist.
- In-depth knowledge of the legal requirements and HR best practices within APAC region
- Enjoy working independently and in fast paced environment
- Able to speak Mandarin and any other Asian language is a plus.
- Good understanding of all areas of HR
- Willingness to understand the business, its strategy and mission
- Able to drive effective change management for HR initiatives across the organization.
- Strong execution focus combined with the ability to multi-task, with attention to detail and great time management to meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills at any level
- A business enabler: ability to facilitate communication and cross-departmental sharing of information
- Proven ability to act as a mediator and resolve conflict in an informal way
- Willingness to attend calls on different time zones: APAC and Europe

**Our Values**:
**Integrity and respect.** We treat our colleagues, clients and partners how we want to be treated.

**Success in unity.** We deliver results by working as a team with common goals.

**Smart decisions in action**. We implement plans without delay and stay nimble to change on demand.

**Make it simple**. We simplify complexity, making the complex easy to understand.

**Be bold**. We welcome big and small ideas that challenge and inspire us to change.

**Delight customers**. We work tirelessly to exceed expectations, turning satisfaction into delight.

**Reward great work**. We believe performance is the reason for advancement. Do good work and good things come.

**What we offer**:
At Toluna you will find an exciting and multicultural place to work. We employ the best and the brightest in our industry and we are always looking for rising stars to join our team.

We are proud of our staff members and we offer competitive salaries, a wide range of ben