Senior HR Programs Manager

About the role

KLA's Human Resources team supports business success by mobilizing global talent across HR business partnerships, learning and development, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, inclusion, and HR systems and operations. As a Senior HR Programs Manager in Hsinchu, you will advance business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with HR business partners and functional specialists to understand priorities, gather employee and manager input, and define the problem to be addressed.
• Analyze organizational structures, responsibilities, reporting lines and cross-functional handoffs, identifying unclear ownership, duplication and process gaps, then develop practical options with supporting evidence and resource implications.
• Manage HR improvement projects or workstreams, maintain milestones, track dependencies, resolve issues within authority and escalate risks with recommendations.
• Support change-impact and readiness assessments, prepare communication materials, coordinate stakeholder input and track adoption.
• Map and improve HR workflows with process owners, document approved practices and support implementation.
• Prepare analysis and materials for discussions on role clarity, team collaboration and ways of working, and facilitate sessions with HR partners.
• Translate engagement findings and employee feedback into proposed actions, and support targeted development where capability gaps are confirmed.
• Clean, reconcile and analyze workforce, organization, engagement and process data, agree baselines and outcome measures, and present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Handle sensitive organizational information with discretion and involve HR or legal specialists on employee-relations or compliance concerns.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional experience in HR, organizational development, organizational effectiveness, HR operations improvement or HR consulting, with ownership of defined projects or workstreams beyond administrative coordination.
• Ability to analyze problems, collaborate across HR specialties and build effective working relationships with project stakeholders.
• Preferred: experience in semiconductor, technology, engineering, manufacturing or other complex matrix organizations, and exposure to organizational design, workforce planning, employee engagement or change implementation.

Required skills

• Hands-on Excel, including pivot tables, lookup functions and data validation.
• Ability to interpret HR-system reports and explain findings, assumptions and limitations.
• Strong project planning, written communication, presentation and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Working knowledge of core HR practices and employment requirements.
• Familiarity with Workday, Power BI or comparable HR and reporting tools is an advantage.