Strategic HR Leadership & Business Partnership
1. Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to the leadership team, aligning people strategies with business objectives, growth priorities, and organizational transformation initiatives.
2. Develop and execute an integrated HR strategy that supports operational excellence, talent sustainability, workforce productivity, and long-term business success.
3. Leverage workforce analytics, market intelligence, and organizational insights to identify opportunities, address business challenges, and implement impactful people solutions.
4. Drive organizational effectiveness through workforce planning, organizational design, succession management, leadership capability building, and change management initiatives.
HR Operations, Governance & Compliance
1. Ensure full compliance with local labor laws, employment regulations, company policies, and Emerson standards by implementing effective HR governance, policies, processes, and controls.
2. Provide guidance on employee relations, performance management, workforce restructuring, disciplinary matters, and risk mitigation to achieve balanced and pragmatic business outcomes.
3. Lead all HR-related aspects of organizational change, restructuring, acquisitions.
Talent, Culture & Employee Experience
1. Lead enterprise-wide talent management initiatives, including talent acquisition, performance management, leadership development, succession planning, learning and development, and employee career growth programs.
2. Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture that reflects Emerson's values and leadership expectations, while promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
3. Drive employee engagement and listening strategies through pulse surveys, annual engagement surveys, focus groups, and communication forums, translating insights into meaningful actions that enhance employee experience and organizational effectiveness.
4. Partner with business leaders to strengthen employee wellbeing, retention, productivity, and engagement while creating an environment where employees can thrive and contribute at their highest potential.
Ethics, Compliance & Corporate Responsibility
1. Serve as the site Ethics Contact, maintaining ethics records, supporting investigations, partnering with Business Unit Ethics Officers, and ensuring timely closure of corrective actions.
2. Promote a strong culture of integrity and accountability by increasing employee awareness of ethics and compliance requirements and ensuring completion of all mandatory compliance training programs.
3. Champion employee health, safety, wellbeing, and sustainability initiatives in partnership with site leadership to support Emerson's commitment to a safe and responsible workplace.
Team Leadership
1. Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing HR team by fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and value creation.
2. Build organizational HR capability by developing talent within the HR function and ensuring the team possesses the skills needed to support current and future business priorities.
You are a dynamic and action-oriented leader who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. You are highly resourceful, leveraging cross-functional partnerships, data, and innovative thinking to solve problems and deliver impactful outcomes. Your ability to plan and align ensures that strategic goals are translated into clear, executable roadmaps, while your relentless drive for results keeps teams focused, motivated, and accountable. You see the big picture, constantly imagines future scenarios, and creates strategies to sustain competitive advantage.
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.
About UsWHY EMERSON
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
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ABOUT EMERSON
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or related discipline
- Master's degree or MBA
- Minimum 15 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including significant leadership experience supporting medium to large multinational manufacturing organizations
- Proven track record of partnering with senior business leaders to drive organizational transformation, talent strategies, and business performance
- Strong knowledge of China labor laws, employment regulations, and HR best practices
- Demonstrated expertise in talent management, organizational development, employee relations, culture transformation, leadership development, and change management
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- High degree of integrity, professionalism, and sound judgment handling sensitive/confidential matters
- Good communication and presentation skills in Mandarin and English
Emerson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Emerson and has not been reviewed or approved by Emerson.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs have been strengthened with a 401(k) plus company-supported contributions such as profit sharing and a recent cash-balance transition for certain participants. These features are positioned as differentiators among large industrial peers.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan introduced in 2026 enables discounted share purchases via payroll deductions. This adds an accessible ownership element to the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes PTO, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave within a broad benefits suite. Coverage breadth aligns with large-employer norms across locations, though specifics vary.
Emerson Insights
What We Do
At Emerson, we’re passionate about what we do. By fusing decades of technology and engineering expertise, Emerson continues to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges with innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. We recruit the greatest talent and apply the best technologies to benefit our customers worldwide. Automation Solutions is a leader in helping process and discrete manufacturers automate and optimize production processes through our best-in-class technologies and industry expertise. Commercial & Residential Solutions develops technologies and services that improve human comfort, safeguard food, protect the environment, enable sustainable food waste disposal, and support efficient construction and maintenance of buildings and municipal infrastructure. Emerson has a wide range of industry knowledge, manufacturing expertise, and technological innovation around the world. Join our next generation of leaders today.
