HR Business Partner

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The opportunity:

The HRBP acts as a strategic partner to business leaders, aligning HR strategies with organizational goals. This role supports the Japan business unit by driving talent management, workforce planning, and cultural initiatives while ensuring compliance with local labor laws and global HR standards.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Accountable for the overall HR contribution and value-add to the business, translating business goals into HR priorities and ensuring effective implementation in partnership with the required teams for the Business.

• Partner with Hub HR Business Partner for Functions to implement HR priorities in the organization in line with our business unit and people strategy, covering culture, people, and organization utilizing the existing HR solution portfolio or providing new solutions where appropriate.

• Advise and coach management members with HR related strategic and operational matters to develop and implement people strategies. Liaison with stakeholders in hiring and employee development initiatives.

• Support, advise and moderate organization and corporate culture as well as change management processes; contribute to the further organizational transformation related goals and initiatives by ensuring relevant capabilities and organizational effectiveness in close collaboration with HR network.

• Execute all HR processes within area of responsibility, including workforce planning, succession planning, performance management, talent management, remuneration, workforce reduction, and other processes as applicable, performance of daily operational activities and local HR projects.

• Deliver day to day HR management contact / relationship for employees, including employee welfare, counselling, grievance redressal, disciplinary processes.

• You are required to be proactive, independent, hands-on with entrepreneurial mind and act with commitment and integrity. Establish internal and external network with the HR community to perform best practice sharing and benchmarking.

• Other duties and responsibilities as and when required.

• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Required bachelor’s or master’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field.

• Overall, 6 to 12 years of experience in HR with minimum of 4 years of experience as HR Business Partner in a multinational or matrix organization.

• Strong experience in a global organization with progressive human resources responsibility.

• Experience dealing with different stakeholder groups in a multinational enterprise. Strong stakeholder management with internal and external partners.

• Initiative paired with strong communication (verbal/written) and influencing skills. Ability to partner with senior managers, confidence in building high-level relationships and demonstrated ability to push back on senior level managers when appropriate.

• Self-confident and trustworthy personality with intercultural affinity. Employee relations, people development, coaching, performance management and Shared Services experience.

• Clear and critical thinker, translates strategies to actionable plans, aligns HR objectives to business needs, follows through to ensure completion.

• Result oriented and strategic mindset. Flexibility and strong team working / collaborating.

• Good communications skills.