Regional People & Culture Partner - APAC

We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.

For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.

Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.

Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.

What you’ll do (the role)

Summary

This role is responsible for defining and executing the People Plan for the APAC region during a period of significant growth, potentially doubling the employee base and expanding across multiple countries. Reporting to Executive Leader Adam Pegg, the role involves strategic workforce planning across a complex matrix organization spanning diverse functions (business development, marketing, engineering, construction, environmental planning, and asset management) in at least five countries.

Responsibilities of the Role

• Defining and implementing the People Plan for the APAC Region. There is significant growth (potentially doubling in employee population and countries) forecast for 2025 and 2026 for this group. The Executive leader of this group, Adam Pegg will be the key stakeholder for the role.
• Strategic workforce planning across a matrix organization covering business development, commercial marketing, engineering, construction, environmental planning and asset management, employed across a minimum of 5 APAC countries.
• Succession Plans, retention risk and attrition issues, proactively managing risks and accelerating opportunities.
• The creation and agreement for a culture of engagement and recognition using tools such as Culture Amp to support an open, safe, and innovative culture.
• Partnering with the functional leadership team to set clear goals and performance standards for their organization, identifying high potential individuals, and ensuring there are inclusive, robust career and development plans throughout.
• Defining and resourcing leadership development requirements and direct coaching for a fast-growing population of people who may be newly promoted to management, or externally hired.
• Ongoing organizational design analysis, structure adjustments and change management to accommodate the scale of growth.
• Managing a team member in the Talent Acquisition team to identify smart solutions to resourcing plans of up to 50 hires per annum and ensuring that the quality of talent being welcomed into the organization is competent for today and has potential growth for tomorrow.
• Partnering with the Reward to ensure that all reward related processes are understood and managed within the APAC region and overall responsibility for the annual compensation cycles and benchmarking exercises.
• Managing the  P&C Ops team to provide a monthly set of KPI’s delivered to the functional leadership team to monitor that the people plan is on track, or course corrected quickly. Responsible for the HR Ops team in APAC who have accountability for regional P&C policies, payrolls, onboarding, offboarding and resolution of employee relations issues.
• Responsibility for leading at least one P&C strategic annual objective globally

Who we’re looking for

• High learning agility who can adapt quickly to the task at hand
• Someone who deals with complexity and ambiguity well
• Curiosity to come up with creative solutions to challenging scenarios  
• Extensive HR management/business partnering experience ideally gained in an international role and environment
• Someone who enjoys complexity and a fast-paced working environment
• The ability to balance local needs and requirements with corporate policies and processes
• The ability to balance commercial thinking with an HR governance and policy mindset 
• Flexibility on working hours to support the needs of our international business
• Willingness to travel where required
• Being accessible and approachable
• Someone with a hands-on approach who will get involved to help on any HR related matter when required
• The ability to compile and analyze HR related data to identify trends and support the business to make meaningful people-based decisions
• Someone unafraid to respectfully question business leaders and their own HR function to get to the best outcome 
• The ability to take a longer-term view to help inform short term decision making
• Someone who is results and completion orientated who will finish what they start and challenge our business to do the same

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible. 

Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired: Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.

Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/