Job Summary: We are looking for an HR Manager who can operate as a strong business partner, guide and audit the HR Executive/Admin team, improve HR processes, and drive HR KPIs with real accountability. This role is hands-on, structured, and performance-driven, suitable for someone who can balance people care and business needs with firm standards.

Responsibilities:

As an HR Manager or Assistant HR Manager, your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

· HR business partnering: Support leaders on manpower planning, performance management, employee relations, transfers, confirmations, and HR decision-making.

· Lead HR operations execution: Guide, check, and coach the HR Executive/Admin team to ensure accuracy, professionalism, and deadlines are consistently met.

· Process improvement and governance: Standardise HR SOPs, templates, and controls across recruitment, onboarding, payroll support, leave tracking, documentation, and offboarding.

· KPI setting and tracking: Build HR KPI dashboard, run weekly/monthly reviews, and drive action plans to close gaps until targets are met.

· Recruitment quality control: Strengthen screening and job assessment discipline, improve time-to-fill, reduce early attrition, and maintain backup candidate pipelines.

· Employee engagement: Drive practical engagement initiatives, new hire check-ins, stay interviews, recognition routines, and pulse checks, translate feedback into action plans and measurable improvements.

· Compliance and practical problem-solving: Partner the business to resolve HR compliance challenges with a solutions mindset, balancing business needs with local employment requirements. Propose workable options, implement the best-fit approach, and ensure decisions are properly documented, consistent, and audit-ready.