Regional HR Manager

Regional HR Manager – North Asia

Location: China | Experience: Senior Level (12–15 years)

About the Company

A growing organization expanding its business across North Asia is strengthening its regional people function to support sustainable growth from China. The organization operates across diverse markets where strong local execution, consistent governance, and effective leadership partnership are essential to business performance. Its HR team enables leaders to build capable organizations, improve productivity, manage workforce investments responsibly, and create employee experiences aligned with business priorities. This role will work closely with the Regional Chief Executive Officer and other senior stakeholders to translate regional expansion plans into practical people strategies. The organization values sound judgment, cultural intelligence, compliance discipline, and the ability to balance consistent principles with local market realities. The successful candidate will help establish scalable HR practices while protecting the organization through accurate workforce planning, effective talent decisions, and strong knowledge of employment regulations, HR practices, and statutory obligations across China, Japan, and Hong Kong. The working model is hybrid, supporting collaboration and focused execution.

About the Role

The Regional HR Manager – North Asia will be based in China and own the regional HR agenda supporting business expansion across China, Japan, and Hong Kong. Working closely with the RCEO and other senior stakeholders, this role converts regional growth priorities into workforce, talent, performance, learning, productivity, analytics, budgeting, and compliance plans. Success means stronger leadership capability, timely hiring, improved productivity, responsible people-cost decisions, effective talent outcomes, and reduced compliance exposure. The manager will combine strategic business partnering with disciplined local execution, using cultural intelligence, commercial judgment, and reliable workforce insights to build scalable HR practices across diverse markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the RCEO and senior stakeholders to translate North Asia expansion priorities into integrated HR plans, ensuring workforce investments strengthen growth readiness, capability, productivity, and financial discipline.
• Govern Talent Acquisition across China, Japan, and Hong Kong through clear standards, demand planning, and hiring metrics, improving quality, speed, workforce readiness, and regional talent alignment.
• Lead Performance Management through clear expectations, review disciplines, and accountability mechanisms, connecting individual contribution with measurable business outcomes across functions, teams, and markets.
• Build Learning and Development priorities around capability gaps, leadership effectiveness, succession needs, and future operating requirements, measuring impact through business performance and people outcomes.
• Improve regional productivity through organization design, workforce effectiveness reviews, role clarity, process discipline, and evidence-based interventions that increase output and protect employee experience.
• Own manpower planning and HR budgeting through forecasts, workforce data, cost scenarios, and governance reviews, enabling responsible resource allocation across the three markets.
• Establish HR analytics and reporting through dashboards and operating rhythms, giving leaders timely visibility into hiring, turnover, performance, workforce costs, productivity, and emerging regional people risks.
• Maintain HR governance through accurate application of employment laws, HR practices, employee relations principles, and statutory compliance requirements across China, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Essential Skills & Technologies

• Strong HR business partnering capability, advising the RCEO and senior stakeholders on workforce strategy, organization effectiveness, talent, and complex people decisions across diverse North Asian markets.
• Strong understanding of employment laws, HR practices, statutory compliance, and employee relations requirements across China, Japan, and Hong Kong, with sound judgment managing local differences.
• Practical expertise in workforce planning, manpower budgeting, scenario modeling, and people-cost governance, aligning regional resource decisions with business forecasts and financial priorities.
• Experience leading Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Learning and Development, productivity improvement, and strategic HR initiatives with measurable organizational outcomes across multiple markets.
• Proficiency with HR analytics, dashboards, HRIS platforms, and reporting tools that convert regional workforce data into clear decisions, risk visibility, and executive action.

Additional Plus

• Experience supporting business expansion, organization scaling, or transformation across China, Japan, Hong Kong, or comparable multi-market environments, with evidence of repeatable people solutions.
• Strong cultural intelligence and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with stakeholders and employees across different languages, operating styles, cultures, and expectations.
• Experience establishing regional HR governance, dashboards, and operating rhythms that improve decision quality, execution consistency, and visibility of people-related business risks.

What You'll Bring

• You bring 12–15 years of relevant HR experience, including substantial exposure to business partnering, multi-market operations, and senior stakeholder management. You connect people decisions with regional growth, productivity, capability, and financial discipline.
• You have practical experience across Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Learning and Development, manpower planning, budgeting, HR analytics, productivity improvement, and strategic HR initiatives. Strong knowledge of employment laws and statutory compliance across China, Japan, and Hong Kong is essential.
• You are commercially minded, data-oriented, culturally intelligent, and comfortable balancing consistent regional governance with local requirements. You communicate clearly and discreetly, manage competing priorities, identify workforce risks, and deliver HR commitments accurately and on time.

Why Join Us

• Shape the regional people agenda from China for an organization expanding across China, Japan, and Hong Kong, with direct visibility to the RCEO and meaningful influence on growth readiness and workforce investment.
• Own a broad HR mandate spanning talent, performance, learning, productivity, workforce planning, analytics, budgeting, and compliance across diverse markets rather than operating within a narrow specialist scope.
• Build scalable regional people practices and governance systems that improve leadership effectiveness, decision quality, execution consistency, and visibility of workforce-related business risks.
• Work in a hybrid environment with broad exposure to complex regional business and workforce priorities, combining strategic influence with practical ownership of local execution.

What We Offer

• A high-impact regional HR leadership opportunity based in China, with close partnership with the RCEO and senior stakeholders during an important phase of North Asia business expansion.
• Broad ownership across strategic and operational HR priorities, with the opportunity to establish scalable workforce, talent, performance, analytics, and compliance practices across three diverse markets.
• A hybrid working model with meaningful exposure to complex organizational and workforce challenges, enabling strategic influence alongside practical ownership of regional execution.