Title: HR Manager, APAC
Location: Sydney
Job Type: Part-time (3 days/week)
Contract: 6-month FTC
Reporting to: Managing Director, APAC

About the Role

As HR Manager APAC, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our regional people agenda. Working closely with the Managing Director, you’ll help drive the global people strategy and operational plan, ensuring our business divisions across APAC have the strategic capability and capacity needed to achieve their long-term goals. This role is ideal for someone ready to step into broader strategic responsibility while still being hands-on where needed.

You will take HR responsibility for the APAC client group, spanning Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, providing HR support and ensuring the provision of a professional and high-quality HR service. The HR team is a strong part of the organisation and aim to deliver excellent customer focused HR support to the global business.

This role is a great fit for a confident, proactive generalist who thinks strategically, challenges constructively, and helps strengthen our values-driven culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver best-practice HR support across the APAC region.

• Serve as the first point of contact for employee queries, providing compliant and expert advice on ER matters.

• Coach and equip managers to strengthen their leadership capability.

• Champion diversity and inclusion from recruitment through the full employee lifecycle.

• Partner with the Managing Director on initiatives that boost performance, engagement, and retention.

• Support the rollout of training and development programs.

• Collaborate with Finance on payroll and local benefits administration.

• Support the recruitment process, guiding hiring managers throughout, with

• Lead onboarding for all new hires, ensuring a smooth transition into the business.

• Support APAC teams with the annual performance and development review process.

• Maintain accurate, confidential data in the HRIS with high attention to detail.
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Proven HR generalist experience and a commitment to delivering best practice.

• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.

• Media industry experience is advantageous but not essential.

• Confident communicator with strong verbal and written skills.

• Solid understanding of HR legislation and the ability to stay current with changes.

• Hands-on experience managing end-to-end recruitment.

• Skilled in facilitating meetings, delivering training, and coaching managers.

• Commercial, pragmatic approach to problem-solving and negotiations.

• Ability to propose creative, flexible solutions and influence stakeholders.

• Collaborative team player with the ability to work independently when required.

• Data-savvy, able to present information in a clear and compelling way.

• Trustworthy, discreet, and comfortable handling confidential information.

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to join an award-winning market leader in digital publishing

• Lots of free tickets and opportunities to experience our city's culture

• Flexible working arrangements

• Fun, welcoming and supportive culture

• Learning & Development opportunities

• Paid Parental Leave

• Celebrations - we’re big on celebrating and shouting out about great work

• Team bonding and social activities

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender identity; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

About Time Out Group plc

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market we help our large audience go out in the world's greatest cities and connect global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

About Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the best of the city - today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to Do, See and Eat across 333 cities in 59 countries and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. There are currently Markets in ten cities including Lisbon, New York and Dubai, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM, is headquartered in London (UK).

About Time Out Market
Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs, drinks and cultural experiences together under one roof. From award-winning chefs to much-loved local gems, from cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures and celebrates the best of the city. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into one of the most popular destinations in the city. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion, and there are currently Markets in eleven cities including New York, Montreal, Dubai and Cape Town, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Market is part of Time Out Group PLC (AIM: TMO), a brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city – today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to do, see and eat across 333 cities in 59 countries, and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.