Director (Talent Strategy, Planning & Sourcing)

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP); Perak; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) seeks a senior HR leader to strategize and drive talent strategy, manpower planning, and end-to-end recruitment. You will shape organisation design, remuneration policy, and expatriate governance while ensuring compliance and cost-effective operations.

You will lead governance, budgeting, staff development, and performance initiatives across the HR division, collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups to deliver strategic HR solutions aligned with

Qualifications

• Recognised Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Organisational Development, Industrial Relations or equivalent.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end manpower planning, recruitment strategy, and talent pipeline development for large or complex organisations.
• Experience in university operational setup and recruitment for local and international employees is an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge in organisation design, job evaluation, remuneration strategy, and policy governance.
• Strong experience managing contracts, expatriate governance, HR compliance, or industrial relations matters.
• Deep understanding of HR strategy, workforce planning frameworks, talent sourcing models, and succession planning.
• Data-driven decision making with ability to interpret workforce analytics and translate insights into strategic solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills across diverse business units.
• Strategic thinker translating organisational directions into HR policies, systems, and execution.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, advisory and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategize, drive and lead Talent Strategy and manpower planning initiatives.
• Lead recruitment strategy and remuneration to maintain a continuous talent pipeline.
• Provide advisory on organisational design and job management including benchmarking and position descriptions.
• Oversee contract management for local and expatriate staff ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
• Governance and assurance of HR policies and related procedures.
• Manage department administration including budget, training, performance evaluation, and mentoring.

Skills

Talent strategy

Manpower planning

Recruitment strategy

Organisation design

Remuneration strategy

Policy governance

Industrial relations

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in HRM/Business/OD/IR

Job description

Strategize, drive and lead Talent Strategy, Planning & Sourcing by managing the implementation of talent strategy such as manpower planning & recruitment, organisation design & job management, remuneration, contract management as well as governance & assurance in supporting the organisation’s business requirements and operations, facilitate optimisation and cost effectiveness while maintaining harmonious industrial relations in compliance to all statutory requirements.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

TALENT STRATEGY AND MANPOWER PLANNING

Drive and lead the development of objectives and targets for Talent Strategy by analysing current & future talent needs, identifying skills gaps and forecasting hiring needs based on business objectives as well as to adhere to the cost effectiveness and optimisation.

TALENT SOURCING (RECRUITMENT) & REMUNERATION

Strategize, drive and lead a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy that is aligned with the manpower planning by coordinating various sourcing strategies to attract suitable talents in collaboration with line department and subsequently managing the recruitment processes including the remuneration proposal to ensure a continuous pool of talent and compliance with all statutory requirements.

ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN AND JOB MANAGEMENT

Lead, plan and provide advisory on organisation design and job management by conducting organisational study results comprising of benchmarking exercise, structure reports, functional structure documents, manpower plans, position descriptions and job analysis in facilitating the manpower optimisation and cost effectiveness hence meeting the organisation’s operational and business requirements.

CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Lead, plan and guide contract management for local and expatriate manpower by reviewing and managing all contract terms of employment, facilitating compliance to all prevailing statutory immigration requirements and monitoring the implementation of all welfare services as per the contract in order to ensure all processes are in accordance with the policy of the university while meeting the operational and business requirements and in compliance to all statutory requirements.

GOVERNANCE AND ASSURANCE

Lead, plan and manage the overall HR related governance and assurance of division’s documents, policies and procedures to ensure that the division is operating in compliance with the relevant poliocies, procedures and guideline as well as ensure adherence to relevant regulations and laws.

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND DIVISIONAL COVERING

Manage for administration for the department by executing all administrative tasks such as budget and leave management, staff training and performance evaluation, and mentoring and guiding other executives in daily tasks in addition to the occasional covering of divisional administration to ensure smooth and continued operations of the department and division.

REQUIREMENTS

Recognised Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Organisational Development, Industrial Relations or equivalent.

Proven experience in leading end-to-end manpower planning, recruitment strategy, and talent pipeline development for large or complex organisations.

Experience in university operational set up and recruitment for local and international employees is an added advantage.

Strong knowledge and demonstrated background in organisation design, job evaluation, remuneration strategy, and policy governance.

Strong experience managing contracts, expatriate governance, HR compliance, or industrial relations matters.

Deep understanding of HR strategy, workforce planning frameworks, talent sourcing models, and succession planning.

Highly competent in data-driven decision making with the ability to interpret workforce analytics and translate insights into strategic solutions.

Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to work across diverse business units.

Strategic thinker with ability to translate organisational directions into HR policies, systems, and operational execution.

Exceptional communication, leadership, advisory, and change management skills.

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) was established on 10 January 1997 and is the number 1 private university in Malaysia.

UTP offers a wide range of industry-relevant engineering, science and technology programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and aims to produce well-rounded graduates with excellent leadership qualities and communication abilities.

UTP has produced more than 15,000 graduates and currently has an enrolment of over 1,200 foundation students, 6,000 undergraduates and 1,200 postgraduates from more than 66 countries around the world.

The university has attained numerous prestigious national and international recognitions in only two decades of its establishment.

UTP is the first and only private university in Malaysia to be rated a maximum 5-star overall rating in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) StarsTM University Rating System.

Furthermore, UTP retains its position in the 601 – 650 band in the QS World University Rankings 2018, the only private university to make it into the rankings.

UTP has improved its standing in the QS Asia University Rankings 2017, moving up 26 places and is now ranked Top 101.

UTP has also made its first appearance in the QS Top 50 under 50 2017 and is ranked in the 91-100 band. The ranking is based on the world’s best universities that are less than 50 years old.

UTP is also ranked 233rd in the QS World University Rankings 2017 by Faculty for its Engineering and Technology Faculty.

UTP has improved its standing in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017. Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering have maintained their position as Top 150 and Top 200 respectively. Meanwhile, Electrical Engineering has improved its rank to be in the Top 200 and Computer Sciences & Information Systems has managed to place itself in the Top 300.

Apart from the QS rankings, UTP has made the list in The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-2017 for the first time and is ranked in the 601-800 band.

UTP has also made its debut in the prestigious THE BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2017, coming in at 91st. This placed UTP among the top 100 best research-led universities in the developing world.

In addition, UTP has made its maiden entrance into the THE Asia University Rankings 2017 and is ranked between 141 – 150. It has also debuted in the THE Young University Rankings 2017 and is ranked between 151 – 200. It is also ranked at 131-140 in the newly introduced THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2017.

The university conducts extensive research activities in collaboration with PETRONAS and other institutions and industries, locally and abroad, on six research focus and niche areas. They are sustainable living, transport infrastructure, health analytics, hydrocarbon recovery, contaminant management and autonomous system.

UTP is the first and only private university to be awarded a six-star rating (the highest performance level) by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for its research, development and commercialisation efforts under the Malaysia Research Assessment Rating System (MyRA). UTP continues to provide distinctive educational opportunities to its students with the rating of Six Star or outstanding status in the Rating System for Malaysian Higher Education 2017 (SETARA)