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.

Number of Openings Available

1

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as Oreo and belVita biscuits, Kinh Do mooncakes, Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate, Halls candy, Stride gum, Tang powdered beverage and Philadelphia cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.

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