Director Human Resources, Korea

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Build strong partnerships across businesses, functions, and leadership teams to create a consistent and engaging employee experience, strengthen organizational capability, and support business objectives.

• Serve as a trusted talent partner, advisor and coach to senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, talent management and change management

• Lead and develop the Korea HR team, creating an environment that encourages collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

• Champion the full suite of talent management initiatives, including talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement.

• Drive disciplined execution of strategic transformational priorities while balancing operational excellence and employee experience.

• Partner with regional and business unit teams to implement HR programs, policies, and processes while ensuring alignment with local business and regulatory requirements.

• Lead labor and industrial relations initiatives, including union engagement, employee relations strategy, and constructive partnership with employee representatives to foster a positive and compliant workplace environment.

• Ensure compliance with applicable labor laws, employment regulations, and company policies while upholding Emerson's standards of integrity and ethics.

Who You Are:

You take a proactive approach to shape and influence stakeholder expectations. You model exceptional collaboration across the organization. You pursue everything with a clear purpose, positive energy and drive to succeed in alignment with Emerson values.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Demonstrated success leading a country-level or a HR function within a complex, matrixed and culturally diverse organization. 15+ years of relevant experience in HR in a global MNC environment, working at both a strategic and executional level.

• Possess strong leadership and proven ability to lead, coach, and develop HR professionals and build high-performing teams.

• Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and credibility across all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated experience leading labor relations and industrial relations activities, including direct engagement with unions, collective bargaining support, employee relations strategy, and stakeholder management in unionized environments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Sound and practical knowledge of Korean employment legislation and HR practices.

• Fluency in Korean and professional proficiency in English, enabling effective collaboration with local, regional, and global stakeholders.

• Process and detail oriented, passionate about continuous improvement

Desired Qualifications & Experiences that Set you Apart

• Bachelor or Master degree in any discipline

• Qualifications in Human Resources, Organizational Development or related discipline

• Overseas working experience, critical development assignments, experience leading Employee Resources Group (ERG) or recognized industry professional associations

• Business or corporate experience outside of HR