APAC HR Business Partner - Contribution, Growth and Recruitment

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Recruitment Delivery & Candidate Journey

- Manage the full life-cycle of assigned roles, ensuring high expertise and quality throughout
- Build attraction strategies to proactively source top talent and develop pipelines for key roles
- Assess and steer the competence assessment process; prepare business interviews and advise on hiring decisions
- Prepare, deliver, and negotiate job offers; provide feedback to candidates and ensure a smooth handover to pre-boarding

Talent Advisory & Business Partnership

- Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to hiring managers, ensuring expectation alignment and effective communication
- Connect recruitment strategy to the broader People roadmap, monitor performance KPIs, and define action plans
- Enable seamless collaboration between People Lifecycle, People Specialist Partnering, and Business Functions

Process Implementation

- Drive high‑quality implementation and adoption of global Grow & Contribute processes by embedding them into day‑to‑day operations, ensuring relevance to local context while maintaining global intent and standards
- Act as the local subject‑matter partner for Grow & Contribute, enabling leaders, People Business Partners, and People Generalists to confidently own and consistently apply people processes and tools
- Act as a bridge between global design and local reality, representing local needs and constraints while reinforcing consistency in philosophy, principles, and ways of working
- Facilitate, curate, and implement relevant learning programs, supporting local adaptations and strategies
- Align performance development and learning processes with goals and organizational objectives

Insights & Support

- Monitor effectiveness, adoption, and outcomes using data and feedback; translate insights into concrete improvement actions and provide structured input to global People PLC Specialists / SMEs to strengthen process design and usability
- Support the Head of People / People Manager with specialist insight and analysis to inform people strategy, prioritization, and forward‑looking decisions linked to business needs
- Measure and analyze leadership performance and development needs

Capability Building & People Development

- Build sustainable people and leadership capability through training, enablement, and coaching, ensuring long‑term, independent application of processes and practices
- Provide personalized coaching to managers for targeted skill development
- Facilitate leadership development interventions based on local needs
- Coach people leaders on goal setting, performance metrics, and improvement strategies

Insights & Performance Monitoring

- Monitor effectiveness, adoption, and outcomes using data and feedback; translate insights into concrete improvement actions
- Provide structured input to global People PLC Specialists / SMEs to strengthen process design and usability
- Support the Head of People / People Manager with specialist insight and analysis to inform people strategy and prioritisation
- Measure and analyse leadership performance and development needs

Requirements

Relevant university degree (e.g. Human Resources, Business Administration, or similar); Strong stakeholder management, advisory, and communication skills; Proficiency in sourcing tools, recruitment systems, and data-driven hiring approaches; Ability to translate global frameworks into practical, locally workable solutions; Proven capability to build leadership capability, influence behaviour, and drive sustainable change; Strong facilitation and coaching skills, with confidence to operate across functions, markets, and regions; Excellent negotiation abilities and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment; Proven experience in full-cycle recruitment or talent acquisition; Experience implementing and enabling people processes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments; Demonstrated accountability for adoption, outcomes, and continuous improvement