Our team: The Country Care HR team sits within HR Operations. Our team has a geographical, in-country focus on operational excellence and compliance. We are also the executors and experts of local intelligence.

About the role: Passionate about employee experience, the Country Care HR Lead - Australia and Southeast Asia, will report to the Global Director of Country Care. This role will be an operational driver and thought leader that will introduce a new leading-edge capability, meant to eliminate productivity barriers and make each employee’s experience easier.

This position will lead a small regional HR team who understand the nuance, language and customs within each country in the region. As the voice of the local perspective among HR and business leaders across Australia and Southeast Asia, you will translate the global Pearson people priorities into something successfully ‘g'local'.

This position will partner with HR Business Partners of each business division, Centers of Excellence, shared services (“People Care”), Payroll, Solutions (IT), and Finance, to keep Pearson competitive and compliant. Your #1 customer is every employee doing business with HR. You will be responsible for providing consumer-grade offerings, consistently applied across our diverse geographies.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• A Tertiary Degree or relevant work experience in HR

• HR expertise of labour knowledge and compliance in Australia (and ideally Southeast Asia).

• Proven ability to be hands-on while leading and developing a small, diverse and globally dispersed team (highly regarded).

• Worked withing a matrixed global HR team

• Disciplined at maintaining HR operational fundamentals in a multinational business environment

• Gifted at executing corporate strategies into locally relevant applications.

• Knowledge of how HR delivers business value across business-aligned partnerships and centers of excellence.

• Experience building successful stakeholder relationships and working within a complex multifunctional environment

Flexible working: We are committed to hybrid working practices and has adopted flexible remote and virtual working. Where possible our employees can choose to manage their attendance to the office more flexibly.

If you are as passionate as we are about changing lives through learning, then help us to learn more about you and why you want to work with Pearson. Click ‘Apply Now’ to create your application online.

What to expect from Pearson

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At Pearson, we add life to a lifetime of learning so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are on a journey to be 100 percent digital to meet the changing needs of the global population by developing a new strategy with ambitious targets. To deliver on our strategic vision, we have five business divisions that are the foundation for the long-term growth of the company: Assessment & Qualifications, Virtual Learning, English Language Learning, Workforce Skills and Higher Education. Alongside these, we have our corporate divisions: Digital & Technology, Finance, Global Corporate Marketing & Communications, Human Resources, Legal, Strategy and Direct to Consumer. Learn more at We are Pearson.

We value the power of an inclusive culture and also a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced, opportunities are accessible, consideration and respect are the norm and all individuals are supported in reaching their full potential. Through our talent, we believe that diversity, equity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant place to work. People are at the center, and we are committed to building a workplace where talent can learn, grow and thrive.

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We strive for a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, navigate to: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pearson.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing ppsmhr@pearson.com.

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Job: HUMAN RESOURCES

Organization: Corporate Human Resources

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 14288

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