APAC Employee Relations Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

Are you an agile Employee Relations professional who thrives on shaping policy, providing expert advice, and leading investigations?

Join us to drive fairness, advance inclusive practices, and deliver impactful projects across a dynamic 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 Employee Relations experience and Site HR role (driving similar responsibilities as above)
• Understanding of APAC 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, Organizational change will be a plus

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

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.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

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.

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.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

Apply online at our LEGO Careers Portal today at: https://www.lego.com/en-sg/careers/job/apac-employee-relations-manager-52d177e332be1001d52eef6c96a40000

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