Country Talent & Excitement Lead

LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 100 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered the world’s finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents that shape the face of luxury beauty, and delights consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets.

Why Join Us?

At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you.

We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.

With LUXASIA, an exciting career filled with robust professional growth awaits you. Isn’t that beautiful?

Role Purpose

The Country Talent & Excitement Lead will be responsible for building effective relationships within the organization to enable the smooth operation of people practices. The incumbent will provide the full spectrum of talent solutions and services to support the country’s goals and objectives through the development, implementation, and management of Human Resources processes and programs.

He/She will also provide leadership, direction and expertise for the full scope of the Human Resources function; which includes employee engagement, employee relations, reward and recognition, talent acquisition, talent development and planning as well as organizational change management.

Principal Accountabilities

• Ensure country has the right number and type of talent required to execute country strategy and achieve established business results.
• Ensure country establishes and maintains a positive work environment and operates in support of vision and values.
• Assist in achieving budgetary objectives in support of top quartile performance objectives while maintaining appropriate level of T&E service delivery.
• Scale the type and level of T&E service provided to country in anticipation of the specific needs of the country business strategy.
• Ensure successful implementation of corporate T&E processes and initiatives within country.

Day-to-Day Duties & Tasks

• Partner with Country Manager and local functional leaders in identifying current and future talent needs to achieve business objectives.
• Partner with Corporate and Talent Acquisition teams to take actions required to address talent gaps and ensuring country has the right talent in the right place at the right time.
• Effectively deploy performance management and reward processes and practices within country to drive desired performance results and retain top performers and high potentials.
• Partner with local leaders and coaches local T&E team in establishing and maintaining a positive work environment and ensuring that our values are lived.
• Partner with Country Manager and local functional leaders in identifying country’s talent priorities for the financial year as well as for next 3 years and the type of support required from T&E team to effectively address these priorities.
• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence in driving and executing corporate T&E processes and programs in support of the transformation process in country.

• Provide country talent dashboards, data and reports for management analysis, and conducting some country analysis as basis in identifying country talent priorities.
• Establish local T&E policies and procedures in alignment with corporate policies and guidelines and provides directions to local T&E team on these policies and practices.
• Ensure local operational support are conducted in an effective and efficient manner and continuously seek for process improvement.
• Lead and develop an exceptional T&E team.
• Be a champion for change and drive change initiatives.
• Oversee and manage office administration requirements and team for country.

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectations.

• Have at least at least eight (8) years of working experience in the retail industry a senior managerial position within the Human Resources department.
• Have demonstrated an experience and knowledge of HR administrative best practices, Human Resources technology, and general practices.
• Have had experience in business process optimization with significant exposure in review processes that lead to the identification of redundancies or inefficiencies.
• Are highly organized, have an ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines, have excellent negotiation skills, be self-motivated working under minimal supervision, and be service-oriented.
• Have a high degree of honesty and integrity, be proactive, have a high level of accuracy, have strong attention to detail, and demonstrate calmness and composure under pressure and in times of uncertainty.
• Have demonstrated strong leadership skills, being able to inspire and motivate a cross-functional team leading it in a unified direction and with a unified vision.
• Have an excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
• Have good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to drive tasks to completion.
• Are able to influence top departmental leadership and management; therefore, be likeable and relatable, inspiring trust in others, and demonstrating an organic ability to establish strong and meaningful relationships with others.
• Have positive and professional attitude and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing business.
• Have experience with MS Excel required, familiarity with CSV files
• Have hands-on experience with SAP ERP or similar software

Do you have what it takes to succeed in a fast-paced and intense environment? Do you thrive on challenges? Do you want to bring innovative ideas to life? Are you keen to abandon the status quo, try new things, embrace failures as lessons, recover fast, yet always pursue excellence?

If so, you are the one we are looking for. JOIN US and let’s grow together.

To explore other careers opportunities, visit our careers page @ https://www.luxasia.com/careers/

If you have a question for us, please drop us an email here.

We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you.

Note to staffing agencies

Please DO NOT contact LUXASIA’s employees or Talent & Excitement (T&E) team in an attempt to present candidates for our roles. LUXASIA has our own panel of appointed agencies that we work with. Any agency who is interested to work with us must obtain prior written approval from LUXASIA’s T&E team before you submit candidates’ resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. LUXASIA will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Thank you for your understanding.