People Lead

Alumni Services is a global digital transformation management consultancy with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK, and Australia providing high-end expertise to industry-leading clients to drive real business improvement through disruptive technologies.

The People Lead is responsible for the design, delivery and management of the People Strategy for Alumni in alignment with business priorities and planned growth. The role acts as a strategic advisor within the leadership team, translating organisational strategy to clear people actions. The People Lead also acts as a key culture carrier, ensuring that all Alumni staff are aligned with the values framework of the organisation:

• Integrity and Accountability 'we will do what we say and do it well'
• Collaboration 'how we do things is as important as what we do'
• Sense of humour and perspective 'we take our work seriously but not ourselves'
• Positive pragmatism 'anything is possible but not everything is sensible'

Key responsibilities include:

Business Partnership and Organisational Design

• Support growth of the organisation through long term people planning and design
• Culture owner, provoking/protecting the Alumni culture and building culture into the employee lifecycle
• Designing and implementing development and training programs
• Development of assessment processes for reviewing talent (talent review, succession planning, performance management, career development)
• Management, training and development of the People team in line with Alumni growth, current one direct report.
• Leadership coaching and support across all entities.
• Reporting to the board on people activities, on a quarterly basis.
• Ownership of culture and engagement initiatives including half yearly Employee engagement 'Pulse', Culture geo leads and Escape.

HR Operations

• Onboarding – induction, contract generation, onboarding.
• Employment Relations – Mitigation of business risks ensuring alignment with relevant employment law and labour relations. Management of underperformance and employee exit strategies when needed.
• Total Reward – Design of compensation, mobility, benefits, health and wellness.
• Alignment to relevant regulatory requirements across all entities - Ownership of the HRS and people data management, creation and update of all people policies.

Talent Acquisition/Resource Management

• Ownership of design, planning and coordination of talent acquisition programs to meet the staffing needs of Alumni
• Development of sourcing strategy and recruitment tools/partnerships
• Manage recruitment 'flow', end to end identification of talent gaps and building sourcing pool.
• Head-hunting of staff in Singapore, Hong Kong, UK, Australia
• Head-hunting of Associates globally
• Resource management of Associates pool. Support journey to primarily outcome-based engagements.
• Improve and run Associate community engagement approach
• Face of Alumni into Associate community (co-ordination, curation)
• Embed/showcase culture and value of Alumni to Associates
• Encourage Associate sales – drive commercial mindset through associate network
• Oversight of employment branding and employee value proposition - marketing how to best sell Alumni to potential new recruits

Key skills

• 10+ years HR experience with strong background in Resourcing and Generalist roles.
• Ability to be both hands on and strategic, provide creative solutions across the whole employee lifecycle and responding to people needs across the business.
• Outstanding stakeholder management and engagement skills.
• Experience in regional or global roles, ability to translate and apply best proactive employment legislation across all geographies.
• Experience in Consulting sector and/or start up environments preferred.