Talent Acquisition Partner, Singapore

Job ID: 26169

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Human Resources

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Apr 2025

**Job Summary**

Standard Chartered is looking to build upon its continued success by adding a Talent Acquisition (TA) Partner to its HR function in Singapore.
- The role will be responsible for managing the end-to-end talent acquisition process to drive the delivery of the Technology & Operations (T&O) strategy for the lateral hiring across the function. The TA Partner will be required to work in close partnership with the TA Leadership team, HRBPs and other COEs to provide consultative and operational support to deliver a comprehensive and value-added service, ensuring all TA activities are aligned and effectively communicating the employer brand.**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Design and deliver innovative sourcing strategies and solutions to meet business growth needs
- Alumni and internal referrals
- Drive the delivery of T&O TA strategy and partner with key stakeholders to deploy targeted TA solutions
- Drive and support key initiatives like strategic workforce planning, differentiated solution for hiring in critical areas and partner with other teams to drive operational excellence

**Business**
- Partner with COEs and HRBPs to facilitate and execute successful internal deployment initiatives
- Manage conflicts in stakeholder expectations, cost constraints, employee experience and HR best practices in solution design

**Skills and Experience**

**Processes**
- Ensure compliance with relevant operational and people risk controls and employment legislation
- Escalate any issues and risks, as appropriate so that they can be appropriately tracked and manage
- Complete identification, legal right to work and address verification during the interview process

**People & Talent**
- Create and maintain a culture of open communication at all levels which subsequently filters through to excellent customer engagement
- Role model valued behaviours, leading by example

**Risk Management**
- Work with CoE teams to ensure all end-to-end TA processes across T&O are followed in line with policy to mitigate any risk exposure.
- Understanding of operational risks in areas of responsibility
- Proactive risk management, remain vigilant in identifying and managing forward-looking risks, flagging potential problems to relevant stakeholders in advance of issues arising
- Minimise operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to issues once they have arisen
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, learning from past failures to ensure constant control and governance awareness and prevent reoccurrence
- Ensure all reporting and metrics are delivered to pre-agreed standards.
- Embed the Group’s Valued Behaviours and Code of Conduct across the team.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- T&O management & business leaders
- HRBPs
- Careers & Capability team
- Performance & Rewards Benefits
- Employee Relations
- 8+ years of deep talent acquisition experience at senior levels across complex, multinational environments
- Ability to deal with high recruitment volumes as well as specialist vacancies with a specific focus on prior Technology & Operations hiring
- Understanding and experience of developing sourcing strategies and managing multiple recruitment channels to deliver recruitment targets within budget.
- Experience in working with PSLs, and good knowledge of the marketplace, competitors and best practices
- Commercial awareness & business acumen
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills; multi-cultural awareness & sensitivity
- Ability to deal assertively with conflict, and remain positive when under pressure

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Tactical & Strategic Planning
- Talent Acquisition or Recruitment
- Talent Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management

**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see