HR Business Partner – Singapore
Aston Martin Lagonda
Aston Martin is not just a brand—it’s a legacy of design, performance, and passion. Every car we craft is a reflection of the people who make it: visionary, skilled, and driven by excellence. As we expand our global footprint, we’re seeking a dynamic HR Business Partner to join our Asia-Pacific team, based in Singapore, and help shape the future of our workforce across the region.
🌍 About the Role
Reporting directly to the Head of HR Business Partnering in the UK, this role is pivotal in supporting our Regional President and their leadership team across Singapore, China, Japan, Australia, and other key markets. You’ll operate at both strategic and operational levels, ensuring that our regional business goals are supported by a robust, agile, and people-centric HR strategy.
This is a high-impact role that requires a deep understanding of international HR practices, regional employment legislation, and the ability to translate global initiatives into locally relevant solutions. You’ll be the bridge between our UK-based HR function and the Asia-Pacific business, ensuring seamless delivery of HR services, leading key projects, and providing critical insights that inform our global people strategy.
🧭 Key Responsibilities
You’ll be responsible for leading the HR agenda across the region, which includes:
- Strategic Partnering: Collaborate with senior leaders to understand business challenges and develop HR strategies that drive performance, engagement, and growth.
- Employee Relations & Compliance: Provide expert guidance on local employment law, industrial relations, and ER matters, ensuring compliance and best practice across all jurisdictions.
- Talent Management: Lead regional talent initiatives including assessment, succession planning, and development programs that identify and nurture high-potential individuals.
- Organisational Development: Support organisational reviews and change initiatives, helping to shape structures that enable agility and innovation.
- Employee Experience: Champion listening strategies and engagement activities that reflect our commitment to creating a workplace where people thrive.
- Project Leadership: Act as HR lead on key global and regional projects, contributing business insight and ensuring successful implementation.
- Policy & Process: Support the rollout and adoption of HR policies and procedures, ensuring consistency and cultural relevance across markets.
🎯 Who We’re Looking For
We’re seeking a resilient, proactive, and highly collaborative HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, international environment. You’ll need:
- Proven experience in HR business partnering across multiple countries, ideally within APAC.
- Strong knowledge of regional employment legislation and HR compliance.
- Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to influence and build trust across cultures and seniority levels.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to execute operational tasks with precision.
- Experience working with international teams and managing cross-border contracts.
- Willingness to travel across AML sites and to the UK as required.
You’ll be a natural relationship builder, able to balance local needs with global direction, and comfortable navigating ambiguity with confidence and clarity.
🌟 Why Join Aston Martin?
This is a rare opportunity to be part of one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands at a time of transformation and growth. Our HR vision is to enable an exceptional employee experience—one that attracts and retains top talent, unlocks potential, and drives excellence across every function.
Belong at Aston Martin
We understand that the incredible beauty, craft and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different. Please speak to us if there is anything you need to support making an application with us.
The post holder will be required to comply with all policies and procedures issued by and on behalf of Aston Martin Lagonda ltd
