Director Human Resources, Korea

Job description

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be: Build strong partnerships across businesses, functions, and leadership teams to create a consistent and engaging employee experience, strengthen organizational capability, and support business objectives. Serve as a trusted talent partner, advisor and coach to senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, talent management and change management Lead and develop the Korea HR team, creating an environment that encourages collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Champion the full suite of talent management initiatives, including talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement. Drive disciplined execution of strategic transformational priorities while balancing operational excellence and employee experience. Partner with regional and business unit teams to implement HR programs, policies, and processes while ensuring alignment with local business and regulatory requirements.

Lead labor and industrial relations initiatives, including union engagement, employee relations strategy, and constructive partnership with employee representatives to foster a positive and compliant workplace environment. Ensure compliance with applicable labor laws, employment regulations, and company policies while upholding Emerson's standards of integrity and ethics.

Who You Are

You take a proactive approach to shape and influence stakeholder expectations. You model exceptional collaboration across the organization. You pursue everything with a clear purpose, positive energy and drive to succeed in alignment with Emerson values.

For This Role, You Will Need

Demonstrated success leading a country-level or a HR function within a complex, matrixed and culturally diverse organization. 15+ years of relevant experience in HR in a global MNC environment, working at both a strategic and executional level. Possess strong leadership and proven ability to lead, coach, and develop HR professionals and build high-performing teams. Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and credibility across all levels of the organization.

Demonstrated experience leading labor relations and industrial relations activities, including direct engagement with unions, collective bargaining support, employee relations strategy, and stakeholder management in unionized environments. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities. Sound and practical knowledge of Korean employment legislation and HR practices. Fluency in Korean and professional proficiency in English, enabling effective collaboration with local, regional, and global stakeholders.

Process and detail oriented, passionate about continuous improvement Desired Qualifications & Experiences that Set you Apart Bachelor or Master degree in any discipline Qualifications in Human Resources, Organizational Development or related discipline Overseas working experience, critical development assignments, experience leading Employee Resources Group (ERG) or recognized industry professional associations Business or corporate experience outside of HR