About the role
The Head of HR, Philippines, will lead the HR agenda across the Philippines. This role integrates multiple HR functions to respond and adapt to evolving business needs, ensuring organizational and people effectiveness. As the senior-most HR leader in the country, you will report to the Global HR Director, based in Singapore, and be part of the regional SEA leadership team.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership and Strategic Partnership
Be an active member of the Philippines leadership teams, representing regional HR needs within Dyson.
Develop and execute people strategies and planning activities that drive organizational and people effectiveness.
Build strong and trusted relationships with the country General Manager, senior stakeholders and leaders, providing consultation and support for organizational design and workforce planning.
Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, challenging and influencing business direction into strategic and tactical HR plans.
HR Team and Culture Building
Lead and integrate the Philippines HR team, ensuring effective collaboration with global HR Centres of Excellence (COE) to deliver local agendas.
Build and drive a high-performance culture, focusing on diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
Continuously improve HR processes, leveraging metrics and analytics to facilitate decision-making.
Operational Excellence and Compliance
Ensure legal compliance with labor laws and implement both global and local HR policies.
Handle employee relations casework, including investigations, dispute resolutions, disciplinary actions, grievances, and redundancies.
Partner with HR Operations for seamless execution of HR services and address escalations as needed.
Talent Management and Development
Partner with Talent Acquisition driving talent acquisition efforts to attract and retain top talent, ensuring alignment with business needs.
Develop and maintain a robust talent pipeline, manage succession planning, and address capability assessments.
Coach leaders to address performance issues and deliver effective feedback, building performance management capabilities.
Support learning and development initiatives to enhance skill sets and prepare the workforce for future challenges.
Partner with Early Careers to build university partnerships and lead talent attraction events to drive student pipelines for Dyson’s internship and graduate programmes.
Qualifications
Degree and professionally qualified in HR or related field.
Extensive hands-on experience in HR generalist roles, providing both operational and strategic support in a global, matrixed organization.
Strong knowledge & experience in local labor laws and employee relations
Previous experience in sectors such as Technology or Engineering is advantageous.
Strong personal integrity and ability to handle highly confidential information.
Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively in a dynamic, international environment.
Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose issues and drive appropriate solutions.
Ability to work independently with a proactive approach, prioritizing effectively amid multiple priorities.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high level of resilience
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- Degree and professionally qualified in HR or related field
- Extensive hands-on experience in HR generalist roles
- Strong knowledge & experience in local labor laws and employee relations
- Previous experience in Technology or Engineering sectors
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively
- Proven problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently with a proactive approach
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
