About the Role
The HR Services Administrator is part of the Global HR Service Delivery Operations team, responsible for delivering high-quality HR services and support to employees and managers across Japan. This role serves as a key point of contact for employee HR inquiries and administers a broad range of HR operational processes throughout the employee lifecycle, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a first point of contact for employees and managers regarding HR-related questions and requests.
- Respond to employee inquiries in a timely, accurate, and customer-focused manner.
- Provide guidance on HR processes, policies, programs, and available resources.
- Escalate complex or sensitive cases to the appropriate HR stakeholders.
- Contribute to a positive employee experience through responsive and professional support.
- Execute HR operational processes including hiring, onboarding, employee changes, data updates, leave of absence administration, return-from-leave processing, and offboarding/termination.
- Ensure all transactions are completed accurately and in accordance with established procedures and local statutory requirements.
- Maintain accurate employee data within Workday and other HR systems.
- Support administration of employee benefit programs, including company housing, employee savings plans, group insurance, relocation support, and allowances.
- Process enrollments, changes, payments, and employee requests for benefits.
- Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders for accurate and timely benefit administration.
- Support administrative activities related to pension programs (DB/DC) and health insurance administration.
- Coordinate required documentation and submissions with external vendors and authorities.
- Prepare and issue employment-related certificates and official documentation.
- Ensure compliance with local legal requirements and internal policies.
- Prepare and distribute recurring and ad hoc reports using Workday and other HR systems.
- Maintain data accuracy and integrity within HR systems and records.
- Support data validation, audits, and reporting activities.
- Assist stakeholders with HR operational data requests.
- Collaborate effectively with local and remote HR Services team members to ensure consistent service delivery.
- Support workload balancing and coverage across the team to maintain business continuity.
- Share knowledge, best practices, and process updates with colleagues.
- Contribute to maintaining clear process documentation and knowledge resources.
- Build strong working relationships across HR Operations, HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, Payroll, and external vendors.
- Actively identify opportunities to improve HR processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Suggest practical solutions that simplify processes and reduce administrative effort.
- Support implementation of process improvements, documentation updates, and operational enhancements.
- Contribute ideas that improve service quality, efficiency, and employee satisfaction.
- Help promote consistent, employee-friendly, and customer-focused HR Services delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
- 2-4 years of HR Operations, HR Administration, or Shared Services experience.
- Experience supporting employee lifecycle activities and HR administration processes.
- Experience administering employee benefits, pension, health insurance, or related HR programs is preferred.
- Experience working in a multinational or matrixed environment is an advantage.
- Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.
Skills
- Strong customer service and employee support orientation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a collaborative and team-based environment.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Ability to follow processes while exercising sound judgment.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a willingness to challenge inefficient ways of working.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
- Fluent Japanese.
- Good English (written and verbal).
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Hybrid (Onsite and Remote)
- On-site
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or higher
Benefits
- Company housing programs
- Employee savings plans
- Group insurance programs
- Relocation support and related reimbursements
- Employee allowances and other benefits
About the Company
- Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best.
- At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue.
- Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges.
- We enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives.
- We pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best.
- Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.
- We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy.
- Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.
Equal Opportunity
- At Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
