HR Director

Overview

As HR Director for APAC and EMEA, you will shape the people strategy for 1000 employees across 30+ countries. You will lead the regional HR team and partner with global leaders to enable growth, while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust HR operations. You’ll tackle complex employee relations, workforce planning, and cross-border initiatives, including market entries and acquisitions. This is a high-impact role at a global IT and services provider, offering a chance to influence culture and performance across multiple jurisdictions. You will drive an inclusive, compliant, and efficient people function that scales with EOS’s international growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the APAC and EMEA HR strategy aligned with global objectives.
• Lead and develop the regional HR team, including the APAC HR Lead in India.
• Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, and regional growth.
• Oversee employee relations, payroll, pensions, benefits, reward, recruitment, performance and talent development.
• Advise on grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, restructures and organizational change.
• Establish compliant HR operations in new markets, including local payroll, benefits, policies and documentation.
• Manage employer-of-record, payroll and third-party providers with focus on service quality and compliance.
• Maintain HR policies and processes aligned with values and local laws.
• Ensure compliance with employment, data protection, consultation, reporting and employee-transfer obligations.
• Lead people aspects of acquisitions, integrations and organizational change.
• Provide workforce reporting and insights on headcount, turnover, absence, recruitment and costs.
• Manage the regional HR budget and continuously improve HR services and systems.

Key requirements

• Significant experience in a senior HR leadership role within an international organisation.
• Experience supporting employees across multiple APAC and EMEA jurisdictions.
• Strong knowledge of regional employment legislation and ability to engage local specialists.
• Proven experience leading and developing geographically dispersed HR teams.
• Experience establishing HR operations in new markets and managing employer-of-record or payroll providers.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, organizational change, acquisitions and cross-border transfers.
• Strong commercial awareness, analytical capability and senior stakeholder management skills.
• A degree in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• CIPD Level 7 or equivalent advanced HR qualification is preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel and work flexibly across APAC and EMEA time zones.
• High levels of integrity, discretion and commitment to an inclusive workplace.

• stakeholder management
• communication
• problem solving
• adaptability
• leadership
• collaboration

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