HR Business Partner is responsible to drive the people and communications agenda for KONE Business Services in India and Malaysia. The role enables business performance by aligning HR priorities with KONE's business needs.

The role reports to HR Director and serves as a strategic advisor and coach to leadership teams while contributing actively to service delivery.

Roles and Responsibilities

Business partnering

• Collaborate with KONE Business Services Director and leadership team to understand business direction and translate them into people and communications priorities driving performance, retention and growth.

• Act as integral member of leadership team, contributing to discussions and decision-making.

• Ensure effective planning and delivery of annual HR and communications cycles, with a focus on impact and business outcomes.

Strategy development and deployment

• Provide local market insights to strategy development process.

• Drive execution of HR strategy in partnership with leadership team.

People operations

• Partner with People Operations team ensuring seamless execution of end-to-end employee lifecycle processes.

Employee engagement

• Lead employee engagement agenda, manage engagement survey and coach managers to drive action planning.

Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Lead local initiatives reinforcing KONE's culture and people strategy priorities.

Change management

• Support and champion transformation initiatives within KONE Business Services.

Communications

• Collaborate with Communications Center of Expertise to strengthen employer branding and internal communications.

Workforce planning

• Work with business leaders to forecast and plan workforce requirements aligned with business objectives.

• Drive succession planning, talent development/ management, talent rotation etc.

• Use people data and insights to guide decisions, improve team effectiveness, and support organizational design.

Organization development and capability building

• Advise on organizational changes, capability needs and restructuring efforts.

Employment lifecycle consultation

• Guide business on employment practices, policies and labor law compliance.

Health and wellbeing

• Collaborate with Performance & Reward CoE to advance health and wellbeing initiatives.

Professional requirements

• Broad HR experience in senior roles, ideally in global multinational organizations.

• Experience advising senior leaders and working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong coaching skills with proven ability in talent development, organizational design, and employee relations.

• Excellent knowledge of employment laws and HR practices in India.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to use people data to inform decisions.

• Proficient in HRIS tools (Workday preferred) and comfortable working with multiple business systems.

• Soft skills - go-getter attitude, high energy to drive actions, positive outlook/mindset.

• Around 8 to 12 years of progressive HR experience, including direct business support.

• A post graduate degree in human resources is highly preferred.

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills across Global teams.

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