Job Description

Santen is a specialized company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on eye health. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries and regions, our mission is to provide essential and significant value to patients and society through our products and services created from our expertise in ophthalmology and from the patient’s perspective.

As Santen continues to grow and expand its business, we are looking for a strategic and talented individual to join us as a HRBP, VN, TH & Alliance Cluster.

Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the HRBP, VN, TH & Alliance Cluster partners closely with leadership teams to align people and organizational strategies with business objectives. Acting as a trusted advisor, the HRBP drives workforce planning, leadership development, and capability building to enhance commercial effectiveness, enable organizational agility, and foster a high‑performance culture that supports sustainable growth in dynamic and highly regulated markets.

What you will do

Workforce Planning & Talent Roadmap

• Translate business plans into workforce strategies, including capability building and succession planning for key roles.
• Ensure alignment with Asia and Global HR strategies.

Trusted HR Advisor

• Serve as the main HR partner for assigned portfolios.
• Connect business needs with HR Solutions and CoEs, ensuring seamless HR service delivery.
• Advise senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, people decisions, and capability development.

Talent Development & Succession

• Lead succession planning, talent reviews, and HiPo development.
• Coach leaders on people leadership and career development.

Organizational Design & Change Leadership

• Co-design organizational structures to improve agility and efficiency.
• Act as change agent, embedding transformation and cultural initiatives in cluster markets.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Manage employee relations cases, including investigations and resolution while risk management and empathy.
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and policies local countries.

HR Cycles

• Drive performance management, merit review, and calibration processes across cluster markets.
• Ensure people practices are applied consistently and fairly.

Executive Hiring & Onboarding

• Partner with Global Talent Acquisition to manage executive-level (GG18+) recruitment and onboarding.

People Analytics & Insights

• Use people analytics to identify trends in attrition, capability, and engagement.
• Translate data into practical interventions.

Business Reviews & Financial Planning

• Manage budget & financial planning, including headcount, personnel expenses, and benefits, for assigned areas, in partnership with Finance and HR Analytics.
• Manage budgets for relevant projects, severances, and executive searches.

Culture & Engagement

• Champion company values and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and performance.

Qualifications

What you will bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Management, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or regional capacity.
• Proven track record supporting commercial leadership teams in Asia.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence senior leaders in matrix settings.
• Demonstrated experience in organizational design, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Strong change management and project management capabilities.
• Deep knowledge of employment practices in assigned territories.
• Effective communicator and coach with excellent interpersonal skills.
• IT savvy with hands-on experience in HR systems
• Self-starter, motivated, resilient, and innovative.

Additional Information

Grow your career at Santen

A career at Santen is an opportunity to make a difference. We aspire to contribute to the realization of “Happiness with Vision” by providing eye health products and services to patients, consumers, and medical professionals around the world. Guided by our CORE PRINCIPLE, “Tenki ni sanyo suru”, Santen is engaged in the global research & development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products in opthlamology. We have team members around the world using their diverse talents to unlock new modalities and drive innovations for patient outcomes, education and treatment. At Santen, we believe in empowering all our team members with flexible ways of working and a highly inclusive work environment.

The Santen Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building diverse teams and ensuring a safe and inclusive physical and virtual workplace for every one of our team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs, role requirements and individual qualifications regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/ expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.