Senior Strategic HR Business Partner, Sports Medicine International based in Singapore
Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew, we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
Reports directly to the VP, Human Resources, Global Sports Medicine, and is responsible for collaborating with senior leadership aligning the HR strategy with business objectives and goals of International Sports Medicine. The Senior Strategic HRBP serves as consultant and partner to senior management on HR initiatives, talent management, organizational effectiveness/design, and compensation/rewards.
The HRBP ensures that the business has the right capability/talent, structure and culture to grow and meet its strategic objectives in the next 1-5 years. Analyses talent needs based on business strategy using insights from reporting, data and analytics, employee engagement surveys and an in-depth understanding of the external market.
Facilitates talent discussions and consults on talent plans based on performance and talent assessments. For client group, oversees the execution of annual HR processes, new HR programs/initiatives and large-scale projects such as reorganizations, supported by the HR Consultancy team. Acts as an employee champion and change agent.
What will you be doing?
- HR Strategy: Participates and contributes in leadership, financial and business planning meetings to advise on talent strategy for the business area.
- Talent Management and Workforce Planning: Partners with business leaders to attract, develop and retain top talent in the organization to support business strategy. Facilitate analysis, forecasting, and planning of workforce supply and demand, assessing gaps, and determining target talent management interventions to ensure that an organization has the right people - with the right skills in the right places at the right time - to fulfil its and strategic objectives.
- Organizational Effectiveness and Design: Advise leadership on organization design principles to drive and promote an organization that can most efficiently meet its objectives.
- Rewards & Recognition: Partner with Total Rewards to obtain the necessary data and insights to develop and deliver a rewards and recognition strategy aligned with business needs and HR strategy; bring insight from data analyses to support the business in making rewards decisions.
- Employee Engagement: Analyze employee survey data to identify opportunities and approaches to enhance employee perceptions of the workplace and leadership capability. Consult with leadership to create interventions to improve the employee experience.
- Provides stewardship of the organisation’s culture and cultural pillars to facilitate success. Coaches leaders on the link between behaviours and culture. Weaves cultural standards into HR practices, processes and ways of working. Communicates the culture broadly and frames it in ways that engages employees. Puts into place systems and practices that aligns individual behaviour and organizational goals at all levels.
- Other duties as required: Other projects may include M&A activity or serving as a project team member on HR project teams developing global strategies or programs.
What will you need to be successful?
Success in the role will require a combination of technical knowledge, soft skills, and a deep understanding of both the business and service-providing sides of an organization.
Successful candidates would need the following:
- Bachelor's degree required. MBA or Master's equivalent preferred.
- Minimum of 10-12 years' experience in increasing spans of leadership in Human Resources to include organisation design and workforce planning, organization effectiveness, employment, compensation, employee relations, talent development, and culture and engagement is required. Regional HR business partnering experience is required (EMEA and APAC countries), global experience highly preferred. Experience driving organizational transformation is a plus.
- Business Partnership and Organization Insight.
- Employee Relations and Stakeholder Advocacy.
- Organizational Diagnosis and Change Management.
- Talent Assessment and Development.
- Financial and Business Acumen.
