Senior Human Resources Manager

The Senior HR Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for leading the organization’s HR team and shaping a people strategy that supports the company’s purpose, growth, and evolving operating model. The role combines enterprise HR leadership with hands-on transformation, strengthening the foundations, systems, capabilities, and culture needed for Kayana to scale.

The role will act as a strategic partner to the President & CEO and senior leadership team, while remaining close to employees and day-to-day business operations. The role will lead the HR team and oversee day-to-day HR operations, own the full employee lifecycle, and drive transformation initiatives that move HR from manual and fragmented practices toward clear, consistent, data-informed, employee-centered, and technology-enabled ways of working.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop the HR team, setting clear priorities, roles, service standards, and measures of success while building a high-accountability and collaborative team culture.
• Partner with the President & CEO and senior leaders to translate business direction into an integrated people and organization strategy, workforce priorities, and an executable HR roadmap.
• Lead HR transformation across the employee lifecycle, including process redesign, policy modernization, governance, digitization, HRIS implementation, reporting, and employee and manager self-service.
• Own the design and delivery of core HR programs across workforce planning, talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, learning and development, career growth, rewards, engagement, employee relations, and offboarding.
• Drive organization effectiveness initiatives, including role clarity, organization design, capability planning, leadership effectiveness, cross-functional collaboration, and change adoption.
• Shape and sustain the organization’s culture by translating purpose and values into observable leadership practices, talent decisions, performance expectations, recognition, and everyday ways of working.
• Build a listening and employee experience strategy using pulse surveys, focused discussions, employee feedback, and people data; convert insights into prioritized actions and track progress with leaders.
• Establish fit-for-purpose HR policies, controls, documentation, and decision rights that support agility while protecting employee welfare, confidentiality, data privacy, and compliance with applicable Philippine labor requirements.
• Serve as a trusted adviser on complex people matters and organizational change, balancing business needs, fairness, employee experience, risk, and sound judgment.
• Develop meaningful people metrics and executive dashboards that provide visibility into workforce health, talent risks, hiring, retention, engagement, performance, capacity, and transformation outcomes.
• Lead communication and change management for major people initiatives, ensuring leaders understand their responsibilities and employees know what is changing, why it matters, and how they are supported.
• Manage HR resources, vendors, budgets, and external partners, ensuring quality, value, accountability, and reduced operational dependency where internal capability should be developed.

Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, People Operations, Organization Development, or a related discipline, including leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading an HR team and managing multiple HR disciplines across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven track record in HR transformation, change management, process improvement, HR technology or HRIS implementation, and building scalable people practices.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect people priorities to company strategy, operating requirements, customer outcomes, and financial realities.
• Working knowledge of Philippine labor standards, employee relations, HR governance, data privacy, and sound documentation practices.
• Experience partnering with senior executives and influencing cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced, evolving, or entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to move confidently between strategy and execution, from executive-level recommendations to hands-on problem solving and implementation.
• High integrity, discretion, empathy, resilience, and courage to address difficult issues with fairness, clarity, and respect.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Behavioral Science, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• A master’s degree, recognized HR certification, or formal training in change management, organization development, project management, or HR analytics is an advantage.

Preferred Skill/s:

• People strategy and HR operating model design
• Leadership and team development
• Organization design and workforce planning
• HR transformation and program governance
• Change leadership and stakeholder management
• HRIS implementation, process digitization, and data governance
• Performance management, culture, and employee experience design
• People analytics, executive reporting, and data-informed decision-making
• Policy development, employee relations, and Philippine labor compliance
• Clear executive communication, facilitation, and practical problem-solving

*Your profile may be shared within the MVP Group for consideration for other opportunities where your experience may be relevant.