Director, Business HR – APJ

Job Details: Job Description: Role Summary The Director, Business HR is the senior strategic advisor to one of the New Intel's most critical organizations across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Partnering directly with Vice Presidents and senior leaders, this role accelerates business performance, product execution, organizational effectiveness, and leadership accountability. A highly influential business leader, this individual combines deep HR expertise, commercial acumen, and transformation capability to build lean, high-performing organizations that deliver results. Success is measured through organizational effectiveness, talent quality, leadership strength, workforce productivity, and business outcomes. Key Responsibilities Strategic Business Partnership • Advise senior executives on New Intel organization, talent, and workforce decisions that improve business and product outcomes. • Align talent and workforce strategies to business priorities, product roadmaps, and growth objectives. • Influence decision-making through data, business insight, and constructive challenge. Organizational Transformation • Lead organizational design and workforce transformation initiatives that simplify, accelerate, and improve execution. • Eliminate complexity, strengthen accountability, and improve operating effectiveness. • Build lean, scalable organizations optimized for performance and growth. Talent and Leadership • Develop strong succession pipelines for key leadership and technical talent. • Raise the talent bar through differentiated talent and performance strategies. • Attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering, technical, and business talent. Execution, Governance and Stewardship • Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and execution excellence. • Uphold the highest standards of governance, compliance, and integrity. • Balance business urgency with prudent risk management and long-term value creation. Site Leadership and Multi Regional Collaboration: • Lead across organizational, geographic, and functional boundaries to deliver enterprise outcomes. • Align leaders, teams, and stakeholders around business priorities, product success, and execution excellence. • Break down silos, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen accountability across the matrix. • Build empowered teams that operate with ownership, sound judgment, and high performance. • Serve as the strategic HR partner to APJ business, design centre, and country leaders, advancing organizational capability, leadership effectiveness, and site success. Experience and Leadership Profile • 15+ years of HR leadership experience supporting global technology, semiconductor, engineering, or manufacturing organizations. • Proven success leading large-scale transformation, workforce optimization, and organizational redesign. • Deep expertise in organizational design, succession planning, workforce strategy, leadership development and change leadership. • Strong business and financial acumen with a track record of translating talent decisions into business results. • Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and change while maintaining execution discipline. • Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across global matrix organizations. Leadership Expectations The successful candidate is recognized for: • Putting Intel first. • Driving disciplined execution and accountability. • Building lean, agile, high-performing organizations. • Challenging the status quo to improve speed, simplicity, and results. • Making principled decisions grounded in business impact and sound judgment. • Developing exceptional leaders and strong teams. • Balancing stakeholder expectations with the long-term success of Intel, its produ