Job Description

Job Summary
We are seeking a proactive and results-driven Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our dynamic HR team. This role involves sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent while enhancing our employer brand and ensuring an efficient recruitment process.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Designing and delivering innovative sourcing strategies and solutions to meet business growth needs
• Developing multi-hire sourcing approaches (including social media, job boards, and networking, to identify and engage potential candidates.) to fulfil the hiring needs
• Managing various recruitment events (interns, campus, hiring drives, etc) as required
• Analyze recruitment metrics and trends to refine strategies and improve hiring processes.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, from initial contact to onboarding.
• Adopting a continuous improvement approach towards the team and it's processes
• Implement strategies to attract a diverse pool of candidates and promote an inclusive hiring process.
• Enhance the company's employer brand through engaging content and active participation in industry events.
• Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and new recruiting technologies to improve our processes.

Business

• Establishing a solid understanding of the specific hiring needs and of the function in which the vacancy sits in order to ensure the right talent is sourced
• Advising Hiring managers where required, e.g., with interview guide, hiring process, etc
• Advising Hiring Managers on which candidates to progress to next stage, ensuring the right recruitment decisions are made, challenging the business' recommendations as required

Processes

• Conducting structured Business Needs Discussions with hiring managers before candidate search commences, identifying the key role and candidate requirements and agreeing on sourcing and selection strategy, SLA and respective roles and accountabilities, updating the JR accordingly.
• Efficient end-to-end applicant management for all JRs, managing the SLAs by working with the Resourcing Support regarding interview and assessment arrangements.
• Conduct thorough screenings and interviews to evaluate candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit.
• Ensuring that rejections are handled appropriately and providing the right candidate experience.
• Managing timely feedback between Hiring Managers, suppliers (where relevant) and candidates. Responsible for collation of interview notes and ensuring timely and appropriate completion
• Managing work-permit applications and extensions for new-hires and in-country transfers where required
• Ensuring pre-employment checks are completed in line with global minimum standards, managing any delays, etc

People & Talent

• The role works very closely with other team leads and hub leadership and will interface with Recruiters and HRBPs outside the hub.
• Build strong relationships with Hiring Managers and HRBPs

Risk Management

• Ensure the operational effectiveness of the process and ensure all the Risk and Compliance agenda are met

Governance

• Ensuring policy, process and system knowledge and capability are at the highest level.
• Responsible for ensuring all Resourcing related Right Start pre-employment global standards as well as all local regulatory requirements are met
• Driving importance of Fair consideration per Singapore Tripartite agreement & Liaoning with Ministry of Manpower (MOM) ensuring adherence to processes and guidelines in highly regulated Singapore market

Key stakeholders

• The role works very closely with other team leads and hub leadership and will interface with Recruiters and HRBPs outside the hub.

Skills and Experience

• Deep experience gained in a complex, hiring environment
• Capable in collecting and analysing data in order to shed light on trends and make recommendations.
• Able to direct and shape dialogue with key and senior business leaders.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Networking & relationship building
• Good understanding of in country employment and recruiting laws and compliance of these

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10 + years Proven experience in recruitment, preferably in [specific industry].
- Proficient in using ATS and other recruitment software.
- Strong understanding of social media platforms and their role in recruitment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to analyze data and make informed decisions.
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 the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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