Manager - HR Business Partner
Location:
Thailand - Bangkok, Thailand
Company:
Gulf Group
Job Position
Job Responsibilities
Strategic HR Partnership & Overseas Support
- Partner with senior management across domestic and critical overseas operations to design and implement robust HR strategies that align with global business objectives and complex local realities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to project and country leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, and succession management for international teams.
- Lead complex international project mobilizations, including workforce transitions, organizational structuring, and the establishment of HR functions in new host countries.
- Lead or support major international HR projects focused on integration, standardization of global processes, and new market entry HR planning.
Talent Management & Employee Relations
- Drive performance management, talent calibration, and leadership development programs across different geographies, ensuring cross-cultural sensitivity and effectiveness.
- Manage complex employee relations cases involving cross-border teams and ensure consistent, legally compliant application of company policies and international labor regulations.
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative workplace culture across project sites, head office, and overseas operations.
- Lead engagement and retention strategies specifically tailored for expatriate, national, and site-based employees in remote and challenging environments.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Political Science, Social Science, Law, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive HR experience, with a minimum of 5 years directly supporting overseas/international business units.
- Proven expertise in managing HR for multi-site and cross-border teams in remote, project-based, or overseas environments.
- Demonstrable experience and deep knowledge of global mobility, expatriate assignment management, and end-to-end processing of work permits, visas, and relevant deployment documentation (A strict requirement).
- Direct experience leading or managing at least two significant international HR projects (e.g., HR system rollout across multiple countries, post-M&A integration, or developing a new global compensation framework).
- Strong understanding of domestic and various international labor laws and HR compliance frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and highly developed cross-cultural collaboration skills.
- Fluent in English both written and verbal (Minimum 750 TOEIC Score or equivalent).
- Ability to travel/work upcountry and overseas
- Goal–Oriented, Unity, Learning, Flexible.