Manager, Corporate Strategy

Institute for Human Resource Professional; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Institute for Human Resource Professional in Singapore seeks a proactive analyst to support the CEO in strategic planning, policy development, and performance reporting. The role involves coordinating information, analysing organisational effectiveness, and helping implement governance initiatives.

You will work with Government agencies and tripartite partners, translating complex data into clear management insights and preparing board-ready materials.

Qualifications

• Keen interest in current affairs and prevailing political, economic, and social trends.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and develop practical, workable solutions.
• Storytelling with impactful communication (writing and presentation) skills.
• Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders across Government agencies and partners.
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis and translating feedback into insights.
• Self-starter and independent thinker willing to take on diverse work.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO in driving long-term and annual strategic planning and cascading plans across the organization.
• Perform analysis to identify organisational effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses.
• Coordinate and consolidate information for management communications and seed discussions at management meetings.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align work planning with resource development.
• Support development, review and communication of policies, frameworks and processes.
• Analyze data for key performance indicators and provide regular updates/reports to management.
• Assist in preparing periodic reports to the Board and government bodies.
• Participate in working groups/projects and assist in implementing initiatives.
• Provide support for key management level meetings and discussions.
• Prepare slides and materials for CEO for board-level meetings.

Skills

Current affairs awareness

Ambiguity navigation

Storytelling & presentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Quantitative analysis

Self-starter / independent thinker

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Support the CEO to drive the strategic planning (Long-term and annual planning) process and cascading plans across the organization
• Perform analysis to identify organisational effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses
• Coordinate, consolidate and integrate the different sources of information for communication to management and/or seed discussions at management meetings
• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate and streamline work planning with resource planning and development
• Support in the development, review and communication of policies, frameworks and processes
• Support in the data analysis of key performance indicators for communication to management through regular updates/reports
• Support the CEO's involvement in the preparation of the periodic reports to the Board and government bodies
• Participate in working groups / projects and assist in the implementation of the initiatives
• Provide support for key management level meetings and discussions
• Preparation of presentation slides and materials for CEO for board-level meetings

Job Requirement

• Keen interest in current affairs, in tune with prevailing political, economic, and social trends
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, think out of the box, challenge herd thinking, conceptualise and create practical and workable solutions
• Storyteller with impactful communication (writing and presentation) skills
• Possess strong collaboration skills and be able to interact with different / multiple stakeholders comfortably and resiliently across Government agencies, tripartite partners and businesses
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis, and able to quickly grasp and synthesise feedback and input from various sources, and translate these into useful insights for policy/programme reviews
• Be a self-starter and independent thinker, comfortable with taking on diverse pieces of work