Manager/senior Manager, Industry Engagement

2 weeks ago

Paya Lebar, Singapore WSG Workforce Singapore Agency Full time

You will play a key role in supporting the jobs and skills pillar under the Industry Transformation Map (ITM) for the sector under your purview. This includes:
**Stakeholder Engagement and Management**
- Outreach to companies to promote the adoption of WSG programmes and progressive human resource practices to address their manpower needs
- Engage companies from business development perspective, with a growth strategy of outreaching and onboarding new companies to add on to the list of account managed companies
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with strategic partners and stakeholders
- Engage strategic company accounts to diagnose gaps and identify opportunities
- Collaborate with industry stakeholders including government agencies, associations, tripartite partners, programme partners to develop and implement relevant manpower interventions to address industry manpower issues
- Consult with employers to promote adoption of WSG programmes and progressive human resource practices to address their manpower needs

**Strategic Manpower Planning**
- Identify and assess key industry, manpower challenges and skills needs
- Manage and collaborate with strategic partners and engage companies to diagnose gaps and identify opportunities
- Recommend the design of appropriate strategic human capital solutions based on industry or companies’ business and manpower needs
- Support the Industry Transformation Map (ITM) - Jobs and Skills Pillar, and Jobs Transformation Map (JTM)

**Project Management**
- Plan and review budget requirements and ensure compliance to policies and processes
- Organise or support outreach and marketing events, career events and industry engagements
- Track programmes’ progress and analyse industry related information to evaluate and make recommendations for management decision making

**Requirements**:

- At least two years of working experience in industry engagement/ business development/account management is preferred,
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills in engaging different target audiences (from C-suites to grassroots)
- Salary will commensurate with experience

**Knowledge/Skills**
- Strong ability in understanding or sussing out trends, manpower skills needs and business value chain through data or available information
- Comfortable with data compilation and analysis
- Innovative and comfortable in embracing digital and technological solutions
- Good understanding of various government initiatives in relation to manpower interventions in the relevant industries would be advantageous
- Strong written and spoken communication skills
- Strong persuasive and negotiation skills
- Adept in stakeholder engagement and relationship building
- Ability to synthesise opinions and data for decision making and programme monitoring
- Consulting skills would be an added advantage

**Aptitudes/Abilities & Other Characteristics**
- Passionate, dedicated and driven individual
- Resilient and agile to problem-solve and respond in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Ability to multi-task and work with converging timelines
- Confident and comfortable with public-speaking
- Ability to work independently and in teams
- Possess an entrepreneurial spirit

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.

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