HR Business Partner

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

**The Opportunity**:
We have an exciting role for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join a fantastic team where you will have the opportunity to deliver unlimited impact. If you are passionate about driving strategic talent and cross-organizational initiatives in a dynamic and fast paced growth business, while seeking to challenge yourself and others to grow and learn, then this is the role for you Partnering with senior leaders across Asia at an exciting time of growth and change in our organisation, you will drive the People ROB and ensure the execution of the people strategy - talent management, organizational planning, culture diagnostic and leadership development. You will have strong business acumen and a passion for learning. You will demonstrate effective influencing skills and have a proven track record of providing outstanding HR consultation to teams including Partners and Managers/Employees.

**Responsibilities**:
**Organisational Design**
- Collaborates with business leaders to interpret business needs and people priorities. Contributes to the design and/or integration of the holistic organisational plan (i.e., talent, structure, culture, process) for an assigned organisation. Partners with business to monitor, execute, and continue to evolve and inform the design.

**Organisational Diagnostics**
- Partners and consults with peer HR disciplines (e.g., Talent Management, Organisation Development, HR Business Insights) on leveraging the systems model, diagnosing talent pyramid and talent management processes/programs, interpreting results, and building recommendations based on data analyses. Assesses, interprets, and presents findings on organisational effectiveness, and designs and implements assessments or solutions for an organisation.
- Interprets results of analyses provided by HR Business Insights on talent management processes (e.g., attrition, movement, polls, compensation patterns), talent needs, and risks. Identifies trends/themes, communicates findings with the business as well as the broader HR community, and provides recommendations to senior leadership about organisational strategies, goals, and actions. Uses knowledge of the business to frame data in a meaningful way when making recommendations. Translates data into action and leads the implementation of data-supported plans.

**Change Design & Orchestration**
- Identifies the needs for change and leads the implementation and adaption to new or changing structures (leadership or organisational), cultural change, or programs/processes (e.g., training, talent movement) for an organisation, client, or time zone. Contributes to developing change management and communication plans in collaboration with the Communications team and business leaders.
- Evaluates internal and external business drivers and environmental factors to foster change adoption among a diversity of employees and managers. Assesses risks and benefits to ensure project feasibility, and collaborates with business leaders or HR partners to develop effective change-management strategies and training materials.

**People Plan**
- Identifies gaps in current people plan, people programs, and tools to develop critical skills and maintain productivity. Leads the implementation of the holistic people plan (e.g., talent management, leadership effectiveness, diversity and inclusion, culture). Participates in creating the people plan for an assigned client, organisation, or time zone.

**Strategic Talent Management**
- Identifies talent strengths and needs through ongoing assessment of business needs. Partners with Talent Management to translate business priorities into talent management outcomes. Design approaches to help business leaders make decisions to build, buy, or borrow talent and assess impact of the decisions.
- Assists in building strategic talent plans aligned with organisational strategy, data (e.g., attrition rates, hiring trends) and budgets. Collaborates with Total Rewards to understand the market competitiveness of the client organisation's compensation and makes recommendations to improve engagement and retention through fiscal levers.
- Implements talent movement plans in partnership with Talent Management and Talent Development Management (TDM) by identifying potential successors using business insights and data. Drives operational processes and works with others (e.g., managers, Compensation and Benefits) to ready successors and place them in the new role.
- Participates in the development and implementation of talent development plans and programs, in partners