People Lead, Corporate Functions (HRBP Lead)

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking.
Make It
Possible.
Our employees are key ingredients to our success, and you will balance their interests with those of the business. You will be a trusted partner to managers to drive strategic growth and will coach and challenge them to drive workforce performance, providing support in areas of talent, employee engagement and change management. You will sit within a business unit and partner with senior HR People leaders to interpret business requirements.
Partnering functions: HR, Finance, Marketing, Legal, CGA, R&D
Reporting to: VN Country People Lead
Direct report: Individual Contributor but will take lead across HR function work-streams to inpterpret business requirements.
How You Will Contribute
People Strategy
Align HR strategy, structure, and capability to deliver best-practice HR Business Partnering and solutions that support corporate functions' business strategy and drive business results.
Embed HR purpose into the broader organisation via a compelling value proposition and consistent delivery.
Review current priorities and workload to assess alignment and contribution to company goals; course-correct to value-adding outcomes.
Partner with corporate function leaders to translate business strategy into people strategy and workforce planning.
Organisation Design & Development
Partner with corporate function leaders to ensure their organisations are structured to meet or exceed business targets today and in the future.
Understand how culture, diversity, values, and the capability of individuals and teams impact organisation performance.
Drive organisational effectiveness across Marketing, R&D, Finance, Legal, and CGA functions.
Talent Development
Ensure corporate function leadership attracts, recruits, develops, and retains the right talent in the right roles to meet current and future succession needs.
Build talent pipeline for today and future needs across all corporate functions.
Conduct regular Talent Reviews to identify gaps and develop targeted action plans.
Drive cross-functional talent movement and career development opportunities.
Capability Development
Work with corporate function leaders to identify critical skills needed to deliver business goals.
Identify development areas, source supporting programmes, and build functional expertise, fundamental skills, and leadership capabilities for the future.
Partner with Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to design and deliver targeted capability-building programmes for corporate functions.
Performance Management
Continuously educate corporate function leaders on Performance Management, including training, communication, calibration, and ongoing high-quality feedback and coaching.
Lead Culture & Engagement Pillar - Company-Wide
Own and drive the company-wide Culture & Engagement agenda as Pillar Lead.
Design and implement engagement strategies that foster a winning culture across all functions and sites.
Lead annual engagement survey action planning and follow-through across the organisation.
Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives company-wide.
Build and sustain an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that attracts and retains top talent.
Drive recognition programmes and cultural rituals that reinforce company values.
Partner with the Leadership Team to embed desired culture behaviours into daily operations.
Monitor engagement metrics and develop data-driven interventions to improve employee experience.
Advisor & Coach
Contribute to business success by understanding the broader internal and external context in which the business operates.
Actively play a strategic role on corporate functional leadership teams.
Train and advise corporate function managers on personnel and workplace relations matters.
Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders on organisational and people matters.
People Cost Management
Ensure effective people cost and productivity management across corporate functions.
Partner with Finance on headcount planning, budgeting, and workforce cost optimisation.
Oversee the application of redundancy and other employee retrenchment policies.
What You Will Bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
Strong interpersonal skills, communication, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and people management.
Leverages business understanding to create proactive strategic business value.
Gathers insights, diagnoses issues, and fosters innovative and effective solutions.
Builds engagement, finds common ground, and manages conflict/resistance constructively.
Leads the design of high-performance teams and organisations that are outcome-focused and values-driven.
Builds tools and frameworks to support organisational goals.
Facilitates a clear vision, priorities, performance expectations, and effective ways of working.
Influences and collaborates to shape people practices, driving continuous improvement and excellence in execution.
Leverages employee insights to design and execute an improved employee experience.
Ensures teams have a clear and consequential purpose and promotes a highly collaborative work environment using digital tools.
Coaches leaders and teams in managing the careers of key talent and holds them accountable for the depth and diversity of the succession pipeline.
Experience in leading cross-functional HR initiatives and culture transformation programmes.
Proven ability to influence without authority across multiple stakeholder groups.
Bachelor's degree in related fields;
Minimum 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3-5 years in an HR Business Partner role supporting corporate/commercial functions.
Experience in an FMCG MNCs strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of Vietnam labour law and employment regulations.
Fluent in English and Vietnamese.
Demonstrated experience in culture transformation and engagement programme leadership.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary Mondelēz International in Southeast Asia is in five countries serving 19 markets with more than 18 nationalities and 7,500 employees. This group is emerging as one of the fastest growing regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and we are proud of consistently producing high quality products in nine manufacturing sites.
We are market leaders in key snacking categories, making and selling brands like Oreo and Tiger biscuits, Kinh Do mooncakes, Jacob's crackers, Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Tang powdered beverage, Halls candy and Eden cheese. We set the benchmark in being a responsible business and contributing to the communities in which we operate.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type
Regular
HR Strategy
Human Resources