HR Director, Structural Components

HR Director, Structural Components

Location: Preferably Asia, or alternatively Global

Coats is a world leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear, as well as an innovative pioneer in performance materials. These critical solutions are used to create a wide range of products, including ones that provide safety and protection for people, data and the environment.

Trusted by the world's leading companies to deliver crucial, innovative, and sustainable solutions, we provide value-adding products including apparel, footwear and speciality threads.

With a proud heritage dating back more than 250 years and a spirit of evolution to constantly stay ahead of changing market needs, we have operations across 50 countries with a workforce of over 17,000, serving our customers worldwide.

Role Purpose:

To develop and implement appropriate HR strategies globally with a view to achieve the strategic and operational objectives of the markets ensuring alignment with the global HR agenda and Coats values and principles.

What you will do (Key Responsibilities): 

1. Formulating business-aligned HR Strategy globally:
   1. Lead the drawing up of cost-effective staffing, skilling, and motivating strategies of all teams globally.
   2. Ensure that formulated HR strategy is aligned to corporate strategy, principles, and values.
   3. Ensure that HR Strategy is owned by businesses and understood uniformly across all senior levels.

2. Employee Relations:
   1. Formulate and implement the tenets of strong, productive, and sustainable relationships with multiple unions and works councils and key influencers in unionisable workforce, across locations, markets, and relevant political jurisdictions.
   2. Lead teams to, and personally as well, build and maintain productive relationships with multiple unions operating in different locations globally.
   3. Harness from such relationships, in sustainable manner, improvements in productivity, maintenance of discipline, adaptation to changes as Coats progresses, and resolution of agreements involving Bonus, Wages, working terms & conditions and Productivity.
   4. Take key decisions to ensure industrial harmony hand-in-hand with optimising labour productivity across the different locations in each of the markets.
   5. Design and implement appropriate Voluntary Separation Schemes for dealing with surplus workforce.

3. Lead the planning and implementation of all HR processes and initiatives ensuring alignment with Coats Global initiatives:
   1. Career and Succession Planning: Formulate & implement, with the active assistance of the MDs, career & succession plans for Senior & key managers and positions.
   2. Talent Identification and Development: ensure due processes that can be institutionalised.
   3. T&D and Performance Improvement: provide governance to the implementation of the global strategy giving inputs for bringing the required contextualisation for different parts globally.
   4. Reward & Recognition: policies and initiatives and processes.
   5. Governing Compensation Policy: Review and modify Compensation Policy to encourage good performers to contribute to the overall success of the Company and their own growth.
   6. Productivity: Lead efforts to significantly improve productivity of human resources by providing benchmarks, strategies, and support in implementation.
   7. Employee Engagement: lead the process of gaining senior management commitment and ownership of engagement-building processes and enculturation in management styles.

4. Communication and Functional Advice:
   1. Establish appropriate communication channels and messages covering all levels of the organisation with a view to exploiting the motivating potential of Communication.
   2. Establish communications channels through activities, events and processes to share information, best practices and thus promote relationship-building globally.
   3. Functional Advice: Advise MDs & market HR Heads on trends in the HR area which could impact the individual businesses and Company.

5. Statutory Compliances and Administration:
   1. Ensure appropriate systems are implemented to comply with statutory and organisational requirements in the areas of Safety, Welfare & Environment.
   2. Provide cost effective administration support to country based operations.

Who you are (Requirements): 

• Line HR experience of at least 12 to 15 years
• Design & implementation of HR systems
• High levels of confidentiality and perseverance
• Ability to influence Business Heads
• Strong analytical & problem solving ability
• Strong communication skills
• Strong IR & negotiation skills in a multi union environment (CBA & WC)
• Sensitivity to others
• Ability to design and implement HR systems and conceptualise issues

At Coats Group, we are committed to innovation, excellence, and fostering a diverse and collaborative environment where every team member can thrive. If you are passionate about making an impact in the textile industry and eager to join a global leader with a rich heritage and a forward-thinking approach, we invite you to take the next step in your career with us.

Apply now to be part of our dynamic team and help shape the future of textiles.