Director, People & Culture, NEA 东北亚区人才与文化总监-上海

At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive. We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.

Primary Objective：

To enable sustainable business growth across NEA by ensuring sustainable talent supply, strong organizational health, a well-being employee experience, and company culture are in place. The role partners closely with business leaders to drive operational excellence, to translate People strategies and to shape data-informed decisions that support long-term business success.

Key responsibilities:

• Facilitate sufficient people supply and build strong talent pipelines to enable sustainable business growth, covering end-to-end people processes including people planning, talent acquisition, selection, onboarding, retention, internal mobility, career development, and off-boarding.
• Drive the effective implementation of global and regional People & Culture initiatives across NEA, ensuring a structured, consistent, and locally relevant approach that aligns with people strategy.
• Lead the continuous improvement of People operations across the full employee lifecycle, leveraging digital and AI capabilities to enhance operational excellence and overall employee experience.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, translating business priorities into actionable people initiatives that support business goals.
• Track organizational health by people data, providing strategic insights that directly generate leadership decisions for winning together.
• Provide data-driven insights to monitor organizational health, generate actionable insights, and translate workforce data into strategic recommendations that inform leadership decisions and drive business outcomes.
• Build and nurture a dynamic learning ecosystem that enables professional development, strengthens organization capabilities in the transformative markets.  
• Champion and embed the company’s culture and values across the organization, ensuring it is reflected in leadership behaviors, people practices, and everyday employee interactions.
• Oversee people operation and proactively mitigate people-related risk, maintaining all People & Culture governance are compliant with local regulations and aligned with global standards.
• Awareness of ISO 14001 & 45001 standards.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree or above
• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, preferably within multinational organizations
• Strong Coaching, influence & communication
• Solid knowledge in all HR fields and broad experience in multiple countries would be an asset
• Business acumen and mindset as well as tracking record partnering broad experience with country BU leaders
• Fluent in Chinese, English

Behavioural Competencies:

• Strategic Thinking & Data-Driven Decision Making
• Business Partnership & Influence
• Cross-cultural leadership and stakeholder management
• Resilience & Adaptability

Konecranes moves what matters. We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs.

Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.