Human Resources Business Partner
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Human Resources Business Partner
Location: Japan; Remote
Would you like to be part of an international team?
Do you want an opportunity to create change at a leading technology organization?
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Our Human Resources team is an integral part of the Japan business operations. We enable strategic business initiatives and work closely with leadership to align our people solutions to shared strategic initiatives. We work on organizational development and change management all aligned to both Corporate and Regional initiatives.
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As a Human Resources Business Partner you will help us to enable those strategic business initiatives. This a time of change. You will be part of a team that is shaping organizational development and change management initiatives as we continue to build Akamai as a global leading organization.
As a Human Resources Business Partner, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying, supporting, and providing change management and OD efforts and consulting with relevant HR leaders as appropriate.
- Evolving and embedding talent strategies to enable diversity, inclusion and engagement
- Working with supporting COEs and peers, delivering and supporting outcomes of regular metrics including Quarterly people metrics.
- Collaborating with COE organizations and peer HRBPs to gather information, and ensure business compliance with HR programs.
- Assisting in the development, design and execution of corporate HR programs and projects.
- Managing the employee life cycle; identifying trends, process gaps, support, capabilities, and efficiencies and address resolutions
- Performing Data Analysis for the Japan business as we track and report on our initiatives
- Management of ER related matters in line with the laws according to Japan
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have between 5-10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree or its equivalent
- Have experience and ability delivering in a global, high-growth, changing environment in high technology
- Have leadership presence and communications skills, and ability to influence at the senior leadership level
- Have success working in a collaborative, matrixed environment, and track record of accomplishments with measurable business impact
- Have ability to address difficult issues and make tough decisions
- Have experience managing change, shaping culture, influencing leadership, developing talent, managing risk and ensuring compliance
- Have experience supporting Functional programs as applicable and appropriate.
- Ideally have experience working in the technology sector
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether youre streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, were the engine behind the scenes. We provide the worlds most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the worlds biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the worlds most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we dont just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And were the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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