Manpower Development Specialist

Prudential Services Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia is seeking a Manpower Initiatives Manager to drive recruitment excellence and strategic manpower growth. You will oversee recruitment schemes, monitor performance metrics, and support operational processes across multiple departments, acting as a central liaison among Recruitment, Finance, IT, Legal, and Compliance teams.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to deliver solutions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in agency management or recruitment and talent acquisition.
• Strong stakeholder management skills in influencing and persuasion.
• Proven ability to turn data into actionable insights and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee recruitment schemes and incentives, ensuring alignment with strategic manpower growth.
• Support operational processes and liaise across Recruitment, Finance, IT, Legal and Compliance teams.
• Manage end-to-end execution of new recruitment initiatives with clear timelines and deliverables.
• Monitor performance metrics, provide regular insights, and drive improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coordinate project plans, communications, and governance across stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

MS Excel

Analytical mindset

Strong communication

Education

CMFAS certification (advantage)

Degree in any discipline

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed. The Manpower Initiatives Manager plays a pivotal role in driving recruitment excellence and strategic manpower growth. This role oversees recruitment schemes, monitors performance metrics, and supports operational processes across multiple departments. The manager serves as a central liaison among Recruitment, Finance, IT, Legal, and Compliance teams, ensuring smooth execution of financing schemes and recruitment initiatives. He/She is a strong team player who can support the team to achieve operational excellence.

Manpower Planning & Recruitment

Manage existing recruitment schemes and Incentives. Use data analytics to track performance of Financial Consultants and Wealth Managers in different financing schemes. Monitor recruitment performance metrics and provide regular insights. Update and share daily manpower numbers.

Operational Excellence

Be the expert to provide advice for the Recruitment Team and other stakeholders on matters relating to financing schemes. Support the recruitment, performance management and off boarding of candidates under the organic schemes. Work with different stakeholders to ensure accuracy of performance reports and advise Finance on financing scheme payment. Serve as the central liaison between Recruitment, Finance, IT, Legal, and Compliance team. Support management reporting and presentations on manpower growth and productivity.

Project and Initiative coordination

Manage end to end execution of new recruitment initiatives, ensuring alignment across all relevant stakeholders including creation of tracking reports. Develop project timelines, milestone and deliverables, track process and address bottlenecks proactively. Prepare project plan, documentation, status update, steering committee materials and communication materials for new financing schemes.

Performance Tracking and continuous Improvement

Monitor recruitment initiatives performance and effectiveness post-implementation. Gather feedback from Recruitment Team and other stakeholders to refine future recruitment processes under various financing schemes. Recommend improvements for workflow efficiency, stakeholder coordination, and project governance. Develop and execute strategic manpower growth plans to achieve agency recruitment targets.

Who we are looking for:

• Creative and analytical mind.
• Exhibit ability to deliver effective communication and excellent interpersonal skills
• Good presentation and negotiating skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills in influencing and persuasion
• Dynamic individual who strives in fast moving environment
• Possess strong self-leadership qualities and a mind towards excellence
• Good with numbers, and adept in MS Excel.
• Good team player

Working Experience:

Minimum 5 years of working experience in agency management or recruitment and talent acquisition related work.

Education:

• CMFAS certification is an advantage
• Degree in any discipline

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third‑party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

We are Prudential. For every life, we are partners. For every future, we are protectors.

Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management to 17 million customers across 20 markets in Asia and Africa.

We are headquartered in Hong Kong and have dual primary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the London Stock Exchange.

We are focused on four strategic regions: Greater China, ASEAN, India and Africa.

Our customers are served by around 55,000 agents and more than 200 bank partners.

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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