Arc’teryx - Human Resources Business Partner – Korea - Seoul

If you were the Human Resources Business Partner, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Serving as the main HR Business partner to our Retail leaders for all retail stores in Korea.
• Actively contribute to and be part of the APAC People & Culture team and the global People & Culture Business Partner team.
• Thoughtfully leading all aspects of the people retail business model.
• Leading and conducting employee relations, investigations and mediations.
• Supporting retail teams to create a people strategy that builds amazing teams who exceed business objectives.
• Fostering, nurturing and evolving relationships that enable rapport, trust and influence throughout the company.
• Providing advice and coaching to managers and employees on relevant business and people priorities such as; identifying key talent, succession planning, supporting recognition and rewards, developing objectives, performance management, organization design, workforce planning, learning & development and terminations.
• Identifying business and resource gaps and partnership with retail leaders on solutions.
• Gathering and analyzing relevant people and business information to identify trends and communicate recommendations to get alignment on priorities and implement improvements.
• Ensuring relevant personal-development tools and information for teams and employees are readily available, communicated, and understood – you champion personal development.
• Leading and championing company wide P&C programs for the store teams, such as the Performance Review Process, Employee Engagement Survey, and Talent Review.
• Developing cross-functional projects from scratch and participating in business-wide projects that aim to solve organizational pain points.

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Creating “out of the box” P&C solutions to meet the business needs.
• Leading organizational design in partnership with senior business leaders.
• Partnering to create people programs to support the business, Interim Role Program, Retail Stretch Assignment Program, etc.

Are you our next Human Resources Business Partner?

• You have 6 -8 years of progressive customer service HR experience (Retail, hospitality, restaurant, etc). You have a perfect understanding of the Korean market (regulations, employee management, etc.).
• You speak fluent Korean and English. 
• You are comfortable navigating relationships, with expertise in leveraging data to manage a complex group of stakeholders.
• You highly collaborative style and a willingness and demonstrated ability to work in teams as both a leader, and supporting team member.
• You have the ability to coach, mentor, advise team members towards growth and development paths in alignment with business and personal objectives.
• You are open and available to travelling up to 20% in your role.
• You have strong project management skills with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, easily able to analyze data, assess people, understand trends, and develop prioritized recommendations.
• You have excellent listening and communication skills, comfortable communicating large complex changes.
• You are comfortable operating in the work and simultaneously enjoy being part of highly complex business discussion.
• You have the ability to quickly build an in depth understanding of the business, key processes, priorities and plans.
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity.
• You are able to balance autonomy and collaboration.
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement.
• You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right.
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it.