Regional Head of HR – Asia Pacific, Maersk Contract Logistics

About the role

Maersk is looking for an experienced people leader to head the People Function across Maersk Contract Logistics (MCL) in Asia Pacific, a business operating across 15 countries, 270 sites and a workforce of more than 21,000 employees and outsourced colleagues. The role is based in Singapore and combines strategic business partnership with end-to-end accountability for frontline HR operations.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute the regional People strategy, acting as a trusted advisor to the Regional Leadership Team on organisational effectiveness, capability building and workforce planning
• Drive organisational design, succession planning and leadership development, and support transformation, integration and change programmes
• Partner with business leaders to turn objectives into workforce and capability plans, and to strengthen culture, engagement and employee experience
• Deliver the People Function across Asia Pacific, including recruitment, onboarding, reward, performance and employee lifecycle processes
• Oversee employee relations and labour relations across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with employment legislation and governance
• Lead workforce mobilisation for new customer implementations and site launches, and improve HR systems, technology and reporting
• Build and develop a People Function organisation of about 120 colleagues, including the FLPO organisation

Required profile

• Significant senior HR leadership experience across Asia Pacific, with a track record of partnering with executive and regional leadership teams
• Experience supporting large, complex and geographically dispersed workforces, and leading employee relations and labour relations in multi-country settings
• Proven people leadership in large distributed HR organisations, with a record of transformation and change initiatives
• Highly desirable: background in logistics, supply chain, transportation, manufacturing, retail or eCommerce; experience with outsourced or contingent workforces; exposure to M&A, integrations or transformation programmes

Required skills

• Expertise in organisational design, workforce planning, talent management and succession planning
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, stakeholder management and data-driven decision-making