
Human Resource Business Partner (Malaysia)
- Kuala Lumpur
- Tetap
- Sepenuh masa
- Strategic Business Partnership
- Advise business leaders and senior stakeholders, aligning people strategy with business growth plans, company directions, and market realities
- Drive organisational design and team structuring initiatives to improve agility, cost-efficiency, and capability readiness
- Support change management and organisational transitions, anticipating people risks and providing timely HR advice
- Use people analytics, dashboards, and AI-generated insights on talent risks, attrition trends, and workforce planning
- Leadership & Talent Development
- Partner with people managers and functional leads to identify high-potential talent, succession gaps, and leadership development opportunities
- Coach people managers to build high-performing and inclusive teams
- Guide compensation decisions in partnership with Rewards, ensuring fairness, consistency, and alignment with data and internal equity
- Support performance enablement, development planning, and talent review processes
- People, Culture & Experience
- Champion a culture of engagement, accountability, and inclusion in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Facilitate initiatives that strengthen employee experience and belonging, particularly during change or scale-up phases
- AI-Enabled HR Partnership
- Leverage AI tools and automation to streamline HR processes, enhance stakeholder experience, and enable greater focus on strategic work
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure AI is applied responsibly and inclusively across the employee lifecycle
- Advocate for AI literacy across teams and support experimentation with AI tools that unlock productivity, decision-making, and talent growth
- Operational & Compliance Oversight
- Provide oversight and guidance on employee relations, labour law compliance, and sensitive people matters, escalating appropriately
- Collaborate with People Operations team to ensure smooth delivery of core HR processes (e.g. contract changes, performance outcomes, benefits, offboarding)
- What Success Looks Like
- Leaders trust your insights, and people strategies influence business outcomes
- You proactively drive organisational readiness - not reactively fix pain points
- HR delivery is clean, compliant, and employee-centric
- You model what it means to be an AI-literate, change-ready HR leader
- 7 to 10 years of relevant HR experience, including 3+ years as an HRBP in high-growth or multi-country environments (tech, e-commerce, or digital industries preferred)
- Demonstrated expertise in Malaysian labour legislation and employee relations
- Proven experience partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, with strong interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills (English and Bahasa Malaysia preferred)
- Strong HR generalist skills across performance, talent, employee relations and workforce planning
- Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity, change, and high growth environments
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and tell a compelling people story