People Relations Manager Japan

As People Relations Manager you have complete responsibility and accountability for the People Relations areas for the countries in scope. E.g. implementation of global deliveries and processes policies and guidelines securing that local laws practices and needs are captured and catered for. Facilitating alignment between global and local needs to achieve common approach and delivery where needed.

To be successful in your role you ensure that your part of the People Relations network has the right competence work multi and contribute to the business needs by taking responsibility for the whole. By having a holistic approach and proactively ensuring market intelligence you enable agile solutions compliance to existing and upcoming legislations mitigate risks and solve problems to support the business needs.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure the impact of the People Relations strategy and priorities by setting implementing and governing the Market People Relations strategy; evaluating and analyzing data and metrics.
• Provide legal support secure compliance and represent H&M Group as an employer in the local market. 
• Set and implement a systematic way of working within the health and safety area by investigating risk assessing raising awareness mitigating potential risks and following up across the organization together with the Security team.
• Support with training processes legal complaints communications and to managers HR and other functions in the local region/market. 
• Collaborate with Group CoE People Relations to implement and adapt policies guidelines and frameworks locally.

Qualifications :

To be successful in the role of People Relations Manager you should have a good business understanding and the ability to translate business context into needed actions from people relations perspective. You should have a great passion for people and understand how to empower and develop yourself as well as people and organization which enable you to drive results and work towards goals. 

What you need to succeed:

• Education within Human Resources Labour Law Human Rights Occupational health & safety or equivalent work experience.
• Effective collaborator with strong stakeholder management presentation and interaction skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Japanese.
• Strong communicator have persuasive and assertive skills. 
• Proactive innovative curious and solutionoriented mindset. 
• Driving transformation/setting and implementing strategies.

Additional Information :

This is a fulltime position reporting to the Regional People Relations Manager.
This position will be based in Japan.
Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible. Due to data policies we only accept applications through career page.

Benefits
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included) COS Weekday Monki H&M HOME & Other Stories ARKET Afound. In addition to our staff discount all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group were determined to create and maintain inclusive diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.  

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases. 

Company Description
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way.  Learn more about H&M at

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime