Deputy Director, HR Business Partner Lead
Institution: Woodlands Hospital
Family Group: Administration
About Us
Woodlands Health is a next-generation healthcare system in Singapore, designed from the ground-up to meet the future of care. As a new integrated acute and community hospital with specialist outpatient clinics and innovative care models, we go beyond traditional hospital walls to deliver person-centred, connected, and seamless care. Our mission is to redefine healthcare for a rapidly aging and diverse population, through digital innovation, preventive health, and strong partnerships with the community. With a deep commitment to team-based care, sustainability and health equity, Woodlands Health is not just about treating illness we are building a healthier future for all.
Why This Role Matters
Healthcare is evolving rapidly and this role puts you at the centre of that transformation. As the Strategic HRBP Lead, you won't just support the business; you'll shape the workforce that shapes patient care. You will translate strategic priorities into people strategies that build future-ready capabilities, enable AIenabled ways of working, and strengthen leader effectiveness. This is your chance to influence systemwide decisions, redesign work for the future, and elevate organizational performance across a complex clinical environment. If you want to drive real impact on our people, our leaders, and the communities we serve this is where it happens.
What You Will Drive
Strategic Workforce & Organisation Agenda
- Drive organisational and business outcomes through people strategy
- Translate business priorities, service redesign needs, and emerging workforce risks into actionable strategic people imperatives.
Enterprise Workforce Planning
- Lead multiyear workforce planning grounded in skills, roles, and future caredelivery demands.
- Identify critical capability gaps, anticipate workforce shifts, and prioritise actions that strengthen longterm workforce resilience.
Leadership Partnering & Decision Support
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clinical leaders.
- Provide insights, challenge assumptions, frame tradeoffs, and guide decisions on talent, structure, succession and organisational effectiveness.
Change Leadership for Transformation
- Drive people-related change strategies for digitalisation, operatingmodel shifts, caremodel redesign.
- Assess readiness, anticipate people impacts, and ensure smooth implementation through stakeholder alignment and communication.
DataDriven Insight & Organisational Diagnostics
- Use workforce and organisational data to identify root causes, shape strategic direction, and measure impact.
- Translate insights into compelling narratives that influence leadership thinking and decision-making.
Leader Capability & Organisational Effectiveness
- Strengthen leader effectiveness by coaching on performance culture, accountability, and team health.
- Support organisational design initiatives that drive clarity, agility, and collaboration.
Strategic Orchestration Across HR Domains
- Partner with COEs (Talent, Rewards, Employee/Industrial Relations, HR Technology and Analytics, Organisational Wellness and Engagement) to deliver integrated solutions.
- Define the business problems and desired outcomes; ensure cohesive delivery across HR domains.
What You Bring
- 10+ years in HR with significant enterprise-level HR business partnering exposure, proven ability to influence leaders.
- Strong systems thinker with organisational design literacy; able to distil complexity and set direction amidst ambiguity.
- Advanced data and analytics fluency (query, interpret, and tell the story), including AI literacy to shape practical use cases and adoption guardrails.
- Robust consulting toolkit: hypothesisled diagnosis, options and tradeoffs, benefit cases, and measurable followthrough.
- Demonstrated change leadership and facilitation skills; calm under fast-paced or high-stakes operational contexts.
- Healthcare experience welcome but not required; motivated by mission and impact.
