Director, Business HR – APJ

About This Role

• 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 products, and customers.
• This leader will help strengthen Intel's competitive advantage by building organizations that execute faster, operate leaner, innovate better, and consistently deliver world class product and business outcomes.