HR Director Vietnam

About the role
Wanek Furniture is seeking an accomplished HR Director - Vietnam to serve as a strategic business and people leader for our large-scale manufacturing operations.
Reporting to the Senior HR Director and partnering closely with the General Director and Leadership Team, this role translates business priorities into a clear people strategy, leads the HR organization and strengthens leadership, culture and organizational effectiveness.
The successful candidate will combine strong commercial judgment with deep HR leadership. They will be credible in the executive room, trusted by employees and line leaders, and able to turn strategy into disciplined execution in a complex, fast-moving and matrixed environment.
Key accountabilities
Executive partnership and business strategy
• Serve as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger to the General Director and senior leaders on business, organization, leadership and people decisions.
• Translate business strategy into short- and long-term workforce and HR priorities, connecting manpower, capability, productivity, labor cost, retention and organizational risk.
• Build strong relationships across local, regional and global stakeholders, navigating competing priorities and creating alignment in a matrix organization.
• Use workforce insights and people analytics to inform decisions, anticipate risks and measure business impact.
HR team leadership and organizational capability
• Lead, coach and develop the HR leadership team, strengthening accountability, succession and functional capability across the HR organization.
• Build a connected "One HR Team" with clear roles, consistent standards and strong collaboration across functions and operating locations.
• Shape organization design, workforce planning, leadership development and succession solutions that support changing business needs.
• Ensure HR priorities are executed with pace, quality, ownership and measurable outcomes.
Culture, performance and talent
• Drive a high-performance culture grounded in leadership accountability, teamwork, service, integrity and respect.
• Lead organizational change and ensure new structures, processes and ways of working are understood, adopted and sustained.
• Sponsor enterprise talent priorities, including critical-role pipelines, employer branding, cross-border role-transfer initiatives, performance management, career development and retention.
• Provide leadership oversight for total rewards, recognition and incentive programs in alignment with business needs and corporate governance.
• Strengthen employee engagement and communication, creating effective connection between leadership, line management and employees.
Governance and employee relations
• Provide leadership on employee and labor relations, ensuring sensitive matters are handled fairly, consistently and in accordance with Vietnam labor law.
• Maintain strong HR governance, ethical standards and risk management while enabling practical business solutions.
• Partner with leaders to embed sound people-management practices and reinforce management ownership of people outcomes.