Global HR Director

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Job details

Company overview

Our client develops, manufactures, and sells automotive parts (air conditioning).

Responsibilities

Our client is a global automotive systems supplier.

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■Position Overview
This role serves as the senior-most HR executive for Japan, with broad responsibility for shaping and executing global HR strategy and leading enterprise-wide organizational transformation.
Acting as a key member of the global leadership team, the Global HR Director partners closely with headquarters and regional leadership to drive sustainable growth, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness.

■Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise-wide Organizational Transformation
  • Define, articulate, and execute a comprehensive transformation roadmap encompassing HR policies, governance, processes, and organizational culture across the global enterprise.
  • Establish a next-generation global HR operating model that effectively balances centralized governance by headquarters (China) with meaningful decision-making authority at the regional and local levels.
  • Lead change initiatives that harmonize Japan’s strengths in disciplined execution with headquarters’ requirements for speed, agility, and strategic responsiveness.
• Global HR Leadership and Talent Capability Building
  • Build and lead a high-impact, performance-driven global HR organization anchored in a strong HR Business Partner (HRBP) model.
  • Deploy a consistent and scalable HRBP framework across major regions, including North America, Europe, ASEAN, China, Japan, and India, ensuring close alignment with business leadership.
  • Cultivate a unified global HR culture characterized by accountability, collaboration, and cross-border trust, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries.
• Strategic Advisor to Executive Management
  • Serve as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO, COO, and regional executives, providing counsel on organization design, leadership, workforce strategy, and succession.
  • Ensure tight alignment between HR strategy and global business priorities, with particular emphasis on cost discipline, productivity enhancement, and organizational efficiency.
  • Lead the development and execution of forward-looking talent strategies that reinforce global expansion initiatives and long-term competitive advantage.
• Cross-Cultural Integration and Governance
  • Design and implement frameworks, processes, and leadership programs that bridge diverse business cultures across Japan, China, and Western markets.
  • Enable effective communication, collaboration, and decision-making within multinational leadership teams.
  • Proactively address complex integration challenges specific to Japan–China joint ventures, including differences in governance, decision-making speed, and management practices.

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Requirements

■Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience within the manufacturing sector, demonstrating clear career advancement into senior management roles.
• Proven experience managing multiregional and multicultural teams across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
• Native-level proficiency in Japanese, with the ability to operate effectively in executive and organizational contexts.
• Advanced business-level proficiency in English, sufficient for executive communication, global collaboration, and strategic discussions.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with the flexibility and influence to navigate complex, matrixed, and sometimes conflicting organizational environments.

■Preferred Qualifications

• Over 10 years of HR leadership experience specifically within the automotive manufacturing industry, with a demonstrated track record of organizational impact.
• Professional experience working within both Japanese and Chinese corporate environments, with a deep understanding of their respective management cultures and decision-making styles.
• Demonstrated success in post-merger integration (PMI) and large-scale organizational transformation initiatives following M&A activities.
• The ability to combine long-term strategic vision with disciplined execution, ensuring that people strategies translate into measurable business outcomes.
• Business-level proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is a strong advantage.

Salary

10 - 20 million yen

Location

Tokyo