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About the Role
Partner with senior leadership to lead and coordinate people-related activities across the hotel lifecycle in Japan, ensuring successful organizational activation, workforce planning, and HR system implementation to drive business readiness and sustainable growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate HR activities across new developments, conversions, pre-openings, and post-opening support for managed and franchised hotels in Japan.
- Maintain and enhance HR opening/conversion toolkits, best practices, and project governance.
- Support workforce planning, talent readiness, and critical-role recruitment for new and transitioning hotels.
- Coordinate leadership hiring, onboarding, and talent deployment activities.
- Drive organizational activation and support the implementation of IHG Ways of Working, HR policies, people processes, and operating standards.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer and capability building for effective hotel integration into the IHG operating environment.
- Coordinate the implementation of HR systems, digital tools, and people processes.
- Monitor project progress, provide reporting and insights, and identify opportunities to improve HR practices.
- Partner with stakeholders to support opening readiness activities and colleague experience initiatives.
- Coordinate colleague-related opening requirements and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Support operating hotels in delivering strategic HR initiatives, people processes, organizational effectiveness, and operational priorities.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 to 7 years of experience in HR.
- At least 3 years of experience at Human Resources Manager level.
- Good understanding of Employee Relations practice in the Japan markets, including Labor regulations, payroll systems, and recruitment.
- Ability to deal effectively with key stakeholders and colleagues across diverse cultures and geographies.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Evidence of involvement in and leading change management and process innovation practices.
- High level of business savvy and a solution-focused mindset.
- Verbal and written language capability in both Japanese and English at Business Level.
Skills
- HR
- Human Resources Manager
- Employee Relations
- Labor regulations
- Payroll systems
- Recruitment
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Organizational skills
- Change management
- Process innovation
- Business savvy
- Solution focused
- Japanese language
- English language
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4-7 years
- 3 years at HR Manager level