HR Consulting Leader, Anz

**HR Consulting Leader, ANZ & ASEAN**:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date posted

**Jul 22, 2025**
- Job number

**1847944**
- Work site

**Up to 50% work from home**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**People Manager**
- Profession

**Human Resources**
- Discipline

**HR Consulting**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- The HR Consulting organization at Microsoft empowers business performance and fosters an inclusive culture through human-centered, data-driven, and AI-powered coaching and global solutions for managers and employees.

We are seeking a transformational **HR Consulting Leader for Australia, New Zealand & ASEAN**. This role is a critical part of the Asia HR Consulting Leadership Team and will lead the HR Consulting function across a diverse and dynamic geography. The leader will be responsible for delivering global People ROB (Rhythm of Business) programs and processes with agility, ensuring human-centered experiences that align with strategic business priorities.

This geography spans multiple employment contexts, cultures, and languages, requiring nuanced and localized HR approaches. The HR Consulting leader will lead a team supporting thousands of employees and managers across Australia, New Zealand, and ASEAN countries, driving impact through proactive advisory, operational excellence, and transformation. As a member of the Asia HR Consulting Leadership Team, the role will also contribute to regional transformation efforts, including the launch of the People Experience Core (PXC), which focuses on AI, automation, and continuous improvement

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- 9+ years experience in Human Resources, HR policies, HR programs & transformations, etc.
- ** OR** Bachelor’s Degree AND 7+ years experience in Human Resources, HR policies, HR programs & transformations, etc
- Prior exposure and deep understanding of HR practices, employment law, local regulations across ANZ and/or other ASEAN markets.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 3+ years people management experience preferred. _(first time people managers may be considered)_
- Demonstrated experience with AI and automation technologies in HR or business operations.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and geographies. Strong learning agility, strategic mindset with a bias for action and a passion for innovation.**Responsibilities**:
**People Leadership**
- Embodies the Model, Coach & Care principles. Manages, coaches, and grows a team of HR professionals while fostering an inclusive culture that enables the team members to thrive and do their best work every day.
- Influences opportunities that will enable the HR function to evolve and improve the HR operating model while keeping Employee Experience at the center of our decisions.

**Employee Experience**
- Informs strategic opportunities for collaboration with the One HR community and drive greater operational effectiveness of the HR Consulting team. Leverages technology and agile methodology to develop quality solutions with speed, ensure key stakeholders are integrated throughout product design, and measure success and impact of solutions/programs.
- Champions employee experiences by looking beyond process implementation into the lived experiences of employees, managers, and leaders. Provides a vision for and plan for developing programs and activities aimed at creating a positive workplace environment.

**Employee Relations**
- Holds their team accountable to resolve issues with the highest complexity, visibility, and risk; addresses misconducts and other serious employee behaviors in partnership with leadership, peers in HR and Legal profession; establishes and manages the internal escalation process and ensures all escalations are addressed within agreed timelines.
- Facilitates an open, inclusive, Microsoft values-based environment that enables effective employee relations for a business, region, or geography; guides their team to serve as an objective employee resource and escalation path; may serve as an expert and representative of Microsoft at industry forums, meetings, or events to present and share insights and influence policies.

**HR Solutions Consulting**
- Holds their team accountable in providing consulting services to business leaders on HR programs, processes, and initiatives; identifies or anticipates needs to improve the managed processes based on analysis; supports peer HR leaders to implement large-scale programs and drive consistency in program delivery within a business, region