VP, People Partner

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Assistant Vice President, People Advisor @ Singlife

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time. Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan's leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities

• As a People Partner, the role holder provides Business Partnering support to assigned Singlife's Business Functions or Entities which includes designing and delivering engagement initiatives that connect our people to Singlife's purpose and strategy.
• Act as an interface for the Leaders and Managers of Business Functions addressing Talent Management and Learning & Development to futureproof the Company, oversee/manage all employee relation matters and communicate with impact to carry out the functional role of the People Function effectively.
• Develop plans to deploy the organisation's workforce to maximise productivity in pursuit of organisational vision, mission, and strategy, in consultation with stakeholders.
• Providing decisions and/or options to business leaders on people related matters such as employee relations, rewards, recruitment, talent management, engagement.
• There are different levels of complexity of problem solving which require case-by-case judgement, alignment with business strategy and considerations such as financial, reputational, regulatory impacts. The People Partner needs to adapt and tailor different styles and preferences when communicating to different audiences or stakeholder groups.
• Provide consultation and advice on organisation effectiveness related matters to business leaders. Facilitate the redesign of the organisation structure to deliver its vision, mission, strategy, and plans in an effective and efficient manner.
• Lead and drive change projects across People Function teams and make decisions as per delegation of controls from the Group Head of People
• Required to constantly provide recommendations on people related policy and procedure or inputs on other change initiatives or projects.
• Drive and liaise with employees and people managers to evaluate effectiveness of organisation development and change interventions

Requirements

• Excellent stakeholder management skills coupled with a problem-solving mindset via a collaborative approach
• Demonstrated track record in Workforce planning, Talent Management, employee mobility management, employee relations management, diversity and inclusion best practice principles and total reward knowledge
• Possess commercial acumen and champion employee engagement and experience
• Exposure to employer branding concepts, design thinking, Agile methodology highly desirable

Education

• Academic: Bachelor degree (min) with min of 8 years of experience in HR.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Human Resources
• Industries
• Insurance

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