Head of People, Country & Function Lead (CTPO )

PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia’s leading PropTech company, and the preferred destination for over 32 million property seekers monthly to connect with over 50,000 agents monthly to find their dream home. PropertyGuru empowers property seekers with more than 2.1 million real estate listings, in-depth insights, and solutions that enable them to make confident property decisions across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. [PropertyGuru.com.sg](https://www.propertyguru.com.sg/) was launched in Singapore in 2007 and since then, PropertyGuru Group has made the property journey a transparent one for property seekers in Southeast Asia. In the last 18 years, PropertyGuru has grown into a high-growth PropTech company with a robust portfolio including leading property marketplaces and award-winning mobile apps across its markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand as well as the region’s biggest and most respected industry recognition platform – PropertyGuru Asia Property [Awards](https://www.asiapropertyawards.com/en/), events and publications across Asia. For more information, please visit: [PropertyGuruGroup.com](https://www.propertygurugroup.com/); [PropertyGuru Group on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/propertyguru/). Recognised as a Top Employers Certified\* organisation, we’re proud to be among the best workplaces in the region—celebrating an inclusive culture of excellence, growth, and well-being. About the role: This is a senior leadership role on the People & Culture Leadership Team (PLT). The Head of People – Country and function Lead (CTPO) is the single point of accountability for the full end to end people agenda across their country and/or functional remit. The role operates with a dual mandate: delivering an excellent HR service in-country, and a member of the regional P&C team, and contributing as a full member of the P&C People Leadership Team. Direct reporting line is to the Head of HR People & Culture, with a dotted line to the Country Managing Director or relevant XLT business leader. **Why This Role Exists Now** PropertyGuru is in an era of deliberate reinvention under PG Next: country-led operating model, matrix ways of working, and AI-accelerating change in both what we ask of our workforce and how P&C itself delivers. This role is the country-level engine for that shift. It is expected to model the change, not just manage it. **People Leadership Team (PLT) Membership** As a member of the PLT, this role carries collective ownership of the P&C function's performance, culture, and transformation alongside the Head of P&C and peer PLT members. **PLT members are expected to:** - Contribute to and own elements of the P&C operating model - Operate with full accountability - Shared ways of working, and cross-functional collaboration are a collective responsibility - Model the leadership behaviours the business expects from its own people leaders: psychological safety, honest feedback, recognition, and deliberate development of their teams - Engage constructively in functional talent reviews and hold a view on talent across the P&C function, not only their own team - Bring an enterprise lens to decisions, balancing country or functional needs against what is right for P&C and PropertyGuru as a whole **P&C Operating Model** This role has explicit ownership, alongside the CPO and PLT, for shaping and executing the P&C function's operating model focused on AI-infused, human-prioritised P&C function (where transactional work is automated, process value is redesigned, and P&C professionals spend strategic partnering including but not limited to org design, talent strategy, management and development, leadership coaching, and workforce capability). **Org Design, Workforce Planning & the Future of Work** This role is the primary HR partner on org design and workforce transformation for their business unit(s). **Org Design** - Design and implement effective country or functional org structures that reflect b…