Senior HR Manager, New Hotel Openings EAPAC

Introduction

Play a pivotal role in bringing new hotels to life across South East Asia and Korea while contributing to broader hotel opening initiatives across EAPAC. This role offers a unique opportunity to partner with hotel leaders, owners, and project teams to build high-performing teams and create exceptional colleague experiences from day one. If you're an HR professional who enjoys combining strategy, project management, and people leadership, you'll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the success of new hotels across the region.

Your day to day

• Lead and support HR activities for new hotel openings and conversions across EAPAC, with primary responsibility for South East Asia and Korea (SEAK), ensuring hotels are equipped with the people strategies, workforce plans, and HR support needed for successful openings.
• Partner with hotel General Managers and project teams to support workforce planning, organisational design, compensation planning, recruitment, onboarding, and overall workforce readiness throughout the hotel opening journey.
• Build and strengthen leadership teams by supporting the selection, hiring, onboarding, and integration of hotel HR leaders and Executive Committee members, ensuring they are set up for long-term success.
• Drive consistency and operational excellence by maintaining HR opening toolkits, conducting reviews and audits, and partnering with Learning & Development teams to deliver effective training and capability-building programs.
• Act as the primary HR point of contact for hotel openings across EAPAC, providing strategic guidance, workforce readiness updates, and people-related insights to stakeholders, hotel leaders, and owners

What we need from you

• Proven HR experience with a strong background in HR operations, workforce planning, talent acquisition, employee relations, and organisational development, ideally within hospitality or a multi-site environment.
• Experience leading projects and managing multiple stakeholders, with the ability to balance competing priorities and deliver against critical timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of HR policies, processes, and employment practices, with the ability to apply them effectively across diverse markets and cultures.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with confidence partnering senior leaders, hotel teams, owners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong organisational, change management, and problem-solving skills, combined with a proactive mindset and a passion for delivering successful business outcomes through people.