HR Business Partner

As an HR Business Partner at Ubisoft Chengdu, you will be a strategic ally to specific business lines and projects, integrating studio HR strategy into daily operations. You will provide expert HR guidance and support to internal client groups, aiming to enhance business value. Your role involves identifying organizational capabilities, driving change, fostering strong team relationships, and managing key HR processes like performance, talent, and compensation.

Must Have

• Act as an HR Business Partner for assigned business lines and projects.
• Embed studio HR strategy and provide professional HR guidance.
• Help business leaders identify and build organizational capabilities.
• Drive change as an agent in evolving business contexts.
• Build strong relationships within project teams.
• Facilitate annual people processes: performance, succession, talent, development, rewards.
• Align with managers on headcount and plan hiring with Talent Acquisition.
• Manage performance management processes, including calibration and coaching.
• Identify Core Team Members and deploy key people processes like succession planning.
• Collaborate on learning needs assessment and mentor people managers.
• Co-create suitable reward solutions with the C&B team.
• Utilize people data and analytics for business and people decisions.
• Ensure qualitative data on HR information systems and lead ER processes.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in HR (Generalist, HRBP, or specialist).
• Experience in fast-paced media, entertainment, technology, or software industries.
• Advanced English proficiency, both written and spoken.

Good to Have

• Project Management skill

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Established in 2008, Ubisoft Chengdu is one of the key game studios in western China and a full-fledged production center, with over 450 talents contributing to Ubisoft’s line-up. We have a strong track record of co-development on Ubisoft’s biggest brands such as Assassin’s Creed®, Skull and Bones™ and For Honor®, as well as developing casual games such as Rabbids party game and bringing hit titles to Switch.

Meanwhile, we are also a pioneer in cutting-edge technology driving Ubisoft’s “games as a service (GAAS)” ethos. Chengdu’s technology team develops products that empower production teams to make educated, data-driven decisions on hit Ubisoft brands.

To find out more, please visit our website: http://www.ubisoftgroup.com or our WeChat account (UBISOFT育碧or 育碧招聘).

JOB DESCRIPTION

About the Role

As HR Business Partner, you will act as an ally to the allocated business line and project. You will be embedding the studio HR strategy into day-to-day work and you will be providing professional HR guidance and support to relevant internal client groups with the objective of adding value to the business.

What you will do

The main impact areas of the HR Business Partner are related to:

• The business strategy, by helping business leaders to identify, prioritize, and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes
• Boosting the change as agent under the evolving business context and organizational transformation context.
• Building a strong relationship within the project team, while bringing specialist and generalist knowledge and expertise into multiple HR areas of expertise.
• Facilitating and supporting annual people processes performance management, succession planning, talent management, development, total rewards, action planning based on company talent topic milestones.

Talent Acquisition

• You constantly align with the managers on project needs, in terms of headcount and capabilities and follow-up on the roadmap
• You work with the Talent Acquisition team members, identify the business needs and plan hiring accordingly

Performance Management

• You cascade the timelines and educate the business on the end-to-end process
• You facilitate calibration sessions where needed and support ongoing alignment conversations
• You coach the directors, project/people leaders to support them delivering their responsibility in the process

Talent Management & Succession planning

• You work with the business leaders to identify the Core Team Members and ensure regular engagement sessions are facilitated with them
• You deploy the key people processes, such as identification of key people (key potential, key performers, high potential etc.); identification of successors for key positions, ensuring there are succession plans in place for the identified people, etc.

Talent Development

• You work with the talent development team to create the most appropriate learning needs assessment process for their projects and function and follow-up on the agreed actions
• You mentor and coach people managers especially on leadership, managing difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, etc.

Compensation and Benefits

• You work alongside the C&B team to deliver and co-create suitable reward solutions to motivate and retain top talents.

Data and analytics

• Use and re-enforce the use of people data, insights and analytics in taking business and people decisions

HR Operations and Employee Relations

• You ensure qualitative data on HR information systems, contract addendums, leaves & absences etc.
• You lead ER related processes alongside the HR Director and the Labor Relations Teams

QUALIFICATIONS

What you will bring

The professional value you bring:

• 3 years of experience in Human Resources, either in HR Generalist, HRBP role or specialist role, preferable in Talent Management, Talent Development;
• Experience in fast-paced organizations and industries, such as media, entertainment, technology, software industry;
• Advanced English, both written and spoken.

The personal value you bring:

• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills (oral, writing);
• Business-minded, effective problem-solver, initiative and drive;
• Ability to take a step back and think strategically;
• Ability to navigate in fast-moving and agile environment;
• Prioritize effectively, good organization skills.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Bonus Points

• Project Management skill.