Job Openings Head of TCD JP

About the job Head of TCD JP

Position Overview:

This senior leadership role owns Japan's people strategy across the four core TCD pillars – Recruitment, Employee Experience, Assignment Management, and Labor & General Affairs – while partnering with Holdings leadership to localize global frameworks. Reporting to the Japan Management Committee (chaired by the Japan Regional CEO) and the Group CHRO, the role carries direct management responsibility for the Talent Management, Human Resources, and General Affairs teams in Japan.

Japan is one of YCP's largest and most complex regions. TCD Japan is actively evolving away from a process-heavy, recruitment-centric model toward a genuine strategic HRBP function. The Head of TCD Japan will be at the center of this transformation – driving change internally and holding the business accountable to it.

We seek an experienced HR leader who combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, deep knowledge of Japanese employment practices, and a track record of HR transformation in a professional services or knowledge-intensive context. The ideal candidate is highly credible with senior stakeholders and can inspire and uplift a team that is capable but in need of direction and development.

Key Responsibilities:

1. HRBP Leadership & Business Partnering

  • - Serve as the primary HR Business Partner for all Japan-based divisions
  • - Build trusted, advisory-level relationships with the Japan Regional CEO, Business Unit Managers, and functional leaders
  • - Provide proactive, data-informed HR counsel on workforce planning, organizational design, employee engagement, and talent risk
  • - Act as key escalation point for employee relations matters, ensuring fair and compliant resolution under Japanese labor law

2. Talent Acquisition & Onboarding

  • - Oversee end-to-end recruitment across all seniority levels, from role design and sourcing through to offer and onboarding
  • - Drive recruiting process optimization, automation, and AI utilization
  • - Manage vendor and agency relationships supporting Japan-based talent acquisition
  • - Build succession pipeline and management capability within the Japan TCD team

3. Talent Development & Performance Management

  • - Champion the Performance Review and Development Manager Program in Japan, overseeing DM assignments, calibration, and review cycle execution
  • - Drive local L&D programs and coordinate Japan's participation in firmwide initiatives
  • - Lead semi-annual performance review cycles, ensuring consistency, fairness, and developmental focus

4. Assignment Management & Organizational Effectiveness

  • - Lead rollout of Assignment Management capabilities in partnership with regional and global TCD leadership
  • - Drive organization design, workforce planning, and talent allocation discussions with business leaders
  • - Improve cross-functional coordination between business, delivery, and TCD

5. Team Leadership, Culture & Transformation

  • - Lead Japan TCD's transformation toward a culture-focused, HRBP-led function
  • - Lead, develop, and uplift the Japan TCD team; foster a proactive, data-driven, and business-oriented culture
  • - Represent TCD Japan in regional and global TCD initiatives

Candidate Profile:

Required Experience & Capabilities

  • - 8+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3 years in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role
  • - Full HR lifecycle expertise: recruitment, onboarding, performance management, L&D, and employee relations
  • - Proven track record of HR transformation in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
  • - Deep knowledge of Japanese labor law, employment regulations, and HR compliance
  • - Strong stakeholder management skills; able to influence and build credibility at the executive level
  • - Proven people management capability – experience leading and developing an HR team

Target Background

We are particularly interested in candidates who combine:

  • - HR generalist / HRBP background in professional services, consulting, or a knowledge-intensive industry (management consulting, financial services, technology, etc.)
  • - Hands-on experience driving organizational change – restructuring, function redesign, or capability transformation – in a Japan operating context

Language Requirement

  • - Native-level Japanese required
  • - Business-level English required (regular communication with global TCD team and corporate senior leadership)

Ideal Leadership Traits

  • - Strategic thinker with a bias for action: moves fluidly between vision-setting and hands-on execution
  • - Commercially minded: understands the business and earns trust as an advisor, not an administrator
  • - Strong coach and developer: invests in team growth and holds them to high standards
  • - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and navigating organizational complexity
  • - Culturally sensitive and globally minded: bridges Japanese norms with YCP's international culture

Why Join Us:

  • - Genuine transformation mandate at one of YCP's largest and most strategically important regions
  • - Direct-line access to Japan's Regional CEO and the Group CHRO
  • - Work at the intersection of consulting, technology, and people strategy
  • - Build and develop your own team with strong foundational talent and real room to grow
  • - TCD is a board-level priority and this role is central to YCP's next phase of growth

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