Ee Jean Teo

In April 2021, my responsibilities expanded to cover Australia and Europe. During this time, 2 other COEs were established under my care - Learning & Development; and Global Payroll. From February 2022, I became responsible for all HRBP and Centre-of-Excellence responsibilities in Williams-Sonoma's Global countries.

In Oct 2017, I was promoted to HR Director to lead 5 countries in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam). I continued to hold the COE of Total Rewards for Global, which consisted of 12 countries. During this period, we moved to Oracle as our HRIS system, for all Global countries, and this was a project that was led by my team in Singapore. We aligned best practices across Southeast Asia to elevate the level of HR practices within the region, and led the region in a period of organisational changes.

This was the first role outside of the US to establish and support the 12 global countries that my company has. This consisted of both corporate and retail offices, in Australia, China, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, and England. My role consisted in establishing benchmarking practices and translating into salary ranges and role clarity that could be used on a medium term basis. Benefits projects also included aligning to corporate strategies, whilst localising to market norms.

As the first person in the compensation and benefits team for Bose, I oversaw the Compensation & Benefits function for Asia Pacific, covering UAE, India, Japan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. This role was previously supported out from HQ and my role was responsible for transparency and consistency in the execution of the C&B objectives. Responsibilities include communications and execution of annual C&B calendar - budgets, merit and bonus, benchmarking and sales incentive planning. For benefits, I covered benchmarking and budgeting proposals to senior leaders for changes and alignment. This also included negotiations with vendors on insured benefits. Advised HR and the business on compensation and benefits issues, partner senior leaders in launching new initiatives.

My role was to provide advice and support to Southeast Asia and South Asia countries' HR Heads and their teams in establishing, implementing and reviewing the reward policies and framework. The countries which I was responsible for were Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Pakistan, and Singapore, which was the hub for Southeast Asia and South Asia. The team as a whole supported 10 countries across Southeast Asia and 4 countries in South Asia. Responsibilities included market benchmarking for the various markets and partnering vendors and consultants in ensuring effective investments in employee reward as well as consistency across the region. The role also required me to manage the day-to-day activities in the C&B calendar, including the annual salary and bonus exercises, budgeting, pay-band and job profiling, as well as compensation proposals for employees across the region.

I joined AXA as a generalist in 2006 where i was responsible for payroll, recruitment, performance management, and employee engagement. As I progressed within the organisation, my responsibilities shifted to compensation and benefits work, as well as HR business partnering. This work involved industrial relations, as well as short and long term incentive programmes. In 2010/2011, I was involved in the closure of one of AXA's businesses in Singapore and oversaw the execution of that plan from a HR standpoint. Since November 2011, the HR team became a Shared Service function servicing the Life and General Insurance business. I led and implemented the consolidation and rationalisation of benefits across these 2 businesses. In November 2012, we completed an acquisition of a non-AXA business and I was the C&B lead for this project. I supervised 3 headcount, with responsibility for operations, benchmarking, budgeting, and job evaluation over these 2 businesses with a size of 600, as well as held Business Partnering responsibility for specific client groups.

I joined Keppel Shipyard as a fresh graduate and was in a generalist role - covering mainly recruitment of foreign workers, handling disciplinary issues involving shipyard workers, and administration of employee benefits. During this time, I was also involved in industrial relations, as Keppel's workers are represented by an active union.