Country HR Manager, Global Manufacturing (Karawang)

Karawang Permanent View Job Description
As Country HR Manager, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end HR agenda for the country. Serving as a strategic advisor to the leadership team, you will shape and execute people strategies, influence key business decisions, and navigate a complex stakeholder environment.
  • An internationally recognized leader in its category,
  • Recent major manufacturing expansion backed by substantial investment.

About Our Client

Our client is a leading global manufacturer with a strong presence across multiple markets, delivering essential solutions that power industries.

Job Description

As a Country HR Manager, you are responsible for:

  • Lead the Country HR agenda by translating business priorities into integrated people, organization, and workforce strategies that strengthen operational performance, organizational capability, and long-term business sustainability.
  • Act as the strategic people partner and trusted advisor to the local and regional leadership team, providing commercially sound and legally defensible guidance on organization, workforce, talent, performance, and employee-related matters.
  • Build a sustainable talent and leadership pipeline by leading talent initiatives.
  • Shape the organization and workforce for future business needs through organization design, strategic workforce planning, headcount governance, succession planning, critical-role management, and capability development.
  • Lead industrial and employee relations by managing union engagement, collective bargaining, salary and bonus negotiations, employment disputes, disciplinary matters, mediation, and other formal industrial-relations processes while safeguarding business continuity and organizational stability.
  • Govern compensation, benefits, payroll, and labour costs to ensure internal equity, external competitiveness, payroll accuracy, regulatory compliance, financial discipline, and alignment with approved business plans.
  • Drive a high-performance and meritocratic culture through effective performance management, talent reviews, potential calibration, differentiated rewards, employee recognition, development planning, and structured management of underperformance.
  • Enable evidence-based management decision through accurate people analytics, workforce and labor-cost reporting.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Country HR Manager should have:

  • Minimum 10 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including substantial experience in a managerial or country HR leadership capacity.
  • Strong experience in a multinational manufacturing, within a unionized environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in industrial relations, labor-union negotiations, employment-law compliance, employee relations, and labor-dispute management.
  • Strong experience in compensation and benefits, payroll governance, workforce planning, headcount and labor-cost management.
  • Demonstrated experience in organization development, talent management, succession planning, performance management, recruitment, and capability development.
  • Experience working with regional or global HR organizations and implementing cross-country or enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and strong command of spoken and written English.

What's on Offer

  • Leadership capacity within a global organization.
Contact
Gungti Darmesti
Quote job ref
JN-102026-7117144
Phone number
+62 21 2958 8898

Job summary

Function
Human Resources
Sub Sector
HR Manager
What is your area of specialisation?
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Karawang
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Gungti Darmesti
Consultant contact
+62 21 2958 8898
Job Reference
JN-102026-7117144

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