People Partner, South Korea

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People Partner, South Korea

Job Description

Company Introduction
130여년 전 네덜란드에서 시작된 필립스는 헬스 테크놀로지 분야 선도 기업으로, 사람들이 더욱 건강한 삶과 웰빙(well-being)을 영위하도록 건강한 생활에서부터 질병의 예방, 조기 진단, 치료 과정 내 관리에 이르는 헬스케어 전 과정(Health Continuum)에서 전방위적 솔루션을 제공하고 있습니다. 특히, 선진 기술력에 임상 및 소비자 분야에서 쌓은 인사이트를 더해 통합적인 솔루션을 제시하는데 주력하고 있습니다.

필립스코리아는 1976년 한국 법인을 설립한 후, 지난 40년간 한국 소비자에게 의미 있는 혁신을 제공하고 삶의 질을 향상시키며 지속 가능한 사회를 만들고자 노력해 왔습니다.

필립스코리아는 Diagnosis & Treatment(영상 진단 및 치료), Connected Care(환자 모니터링/분석 및 수면 호흡기 질환 케어), Personal Health(남성 그루밍, 뷰티, 구강건강 및 육아용 솔루션) 시장을 선도하고 있습니다.

• 필립스 코리아 홈페이지
• Working at Philips Korea
• Future Together - Partnership & Innovation ​

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a People Partner, South Korea to join us in Seoul. This is an individual contributor position, reporting to the People Partner Lead for APAC & Japan, based in Singapore.

As the People Partner, you will play a critical role in providing expert guidance and professional support to People Leader Partners, People Leaders, and the PPS team on HR-related matters, ensuring compliance with local labor laws and organizational policies. The role will focus on delivering consistent and high-quality HR service and act as a key driver of employee and labor relations strategies, contributing to organizational stability and a positive employee experience. This role interacts as People function representative with the Country Leadership Team and relevant external institutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Acts as the primary advisor for People leaders on complex and high-risk employee relations matters, ensuring outcomes align with organizational goals, legal compliance, and employee well-being.
• Advising Country Leaders on People Strategies and response related to employee issues, during period of crisis or transformation.
• Deliver professional guidance to People Leaders and/or People Leader Partners on transformations (footprint/ restructuring) from local/legal perspective and is responsible for the local execution.
• Act as a subject matter expert in local labor law application and compliance, advising People Leaders on hosted headcount and cross-border employment issue based on international mobility advice.
• Provide professional advice on performance improvement plans (PIP) ensuring adherence to local policies and best practices
• Oversee and manage cases of absence and sick leave, collaborating with People Leaders to ensure compliance with legal and organizational requirements. Engage with authorities on sick leave-related cases when required.
• Handle disciplinary and grievance cases, ensuring accurate documentation and timely resolution with fairness and consistency.
• Conduct and support investigations related to the General Business Principles.
• Address and provide advisory support on rewards-related questions ensuring alignment with local guidelines and internal equity.
• May deliver guidance to People Leaders / People Leader Partners / People Business Partners on transformations (footprint/restructuring) from local/legal perspective and is responsible for the local execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on Collective Labor Agreements (CLAs), ensuring alignment between organizational objectives and legal or contractual obligations and lead the implementation of CLA details, including social commitments and related compliance measures, ensuring these align with organizational policies.
• Develop and lead labor relations strategies, including negotiations with unions, ensuring that outcomes align with organizational goals while maintaining constructive relationships and compliance with regional labor laws.
• Ensure consistent application of HR and labor relations policies and practices across the organization.
• Monitor adherence to local labor laws, escalating potential risks to appropriate stakeholders.
• Drives standardization in the execution of People Function policies and processes, ensuring consistent application and compliance across the country to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Act as a coach and thought partner to People Leader Partners, sharing expertise in employee and labor relations and may act as 'Primus inter Pares' in the team.
• Interacts as People function representative with the country leadership team and relevant external institutions.
• Ensure the country organization complies with evolving local labor laws, develop and lead nationalization programs, and monitor adherence.
• Ensure legally required benefits and health and well-being initiatives are provided.
• Execute Crisis Management Team decisions related to people matters within the country.
• Advice and execute on mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and reorganizations affecting local teams.

Job Requirement

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or equivalent.
• Demonstrated expertise of at least 15 years in HR Processes, employee relations and labor relations preferably in a multinational or highly regulated environment in South Korea.
• Above 3 years of relevant experience in country-level HR Leadership preferred.
• You will bring a solid understanding of HR practices, including employment law and regulation, supporting Payroll, HR administrative tasks, reporting and audit processes.
• You have experience in directly supporting people leaders.
• A solutions-focused approach, well-developed business acumen and able to deal with issues and change in a proactive, positive and dynamic way.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This role is office-based.

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

Application Process:
Application -> Pre-screening call -> 1st Interview -> 2nd Interview -> Additional Interview(if any) -> Offer 
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