Senior Talent Acquisition & HR Business Partner

LITE-ON SINGAPORE PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Singapore seeks a Senior Talent Acquisition Professional to drive strategic workforce planning and lead complex recruitment efforts. You will partner with senior leaders to enhance employer branding and ensure compliance with Singapore's labor laws. This role requires significant experience in technology/engineering hiring and a strong ability to influence people decisions. If you are an expert in sourcing strategies and stakeholder management, apply to join an innovative team in the data center technology space.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recruitment experience, with preferably 5+ years in technology/engineering hiring.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior stakeholders.
• Experience owning strategic hiring programs or employer branding initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership to forecast hiring needs and shape workforce plans.
• Lead end-to-end hiring for complex roles.
• Design sourcing strategies using deep networks and passive headhunting.
• Coach senior leaders on structured interviewing and technical assessments.
• Ensure compliance with Singapore’s Employment Act and work pass regulations.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Stakeholder management

Knowledge of Singapore labor laws

Employer branding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HRM, Business Administration, or a related field

Job description

1. Senior Talent Acquisition Leadership (60%)

Strategic Workforce Planning

• Work directly with the R&D Center Director and senior engineering leadership to forecast hiring needs, identify skill gaps, and shape workforce plans for next-gen data center technologies.
• Act as a senior advisor for talent strategies, market availability, compensation trends, an organizational design.

Advanced Technical Recruiting

• Lead end-to-end hiring for complex roles.
• Drive senior, principal, and expert-level hiring, requiring advanced sourcing intelligence and stakeholder alignment.

Sourcing Strategy & Execution

• Design multi-layered sourcing strategies using deep networks, industry groups, passive headhunting, competitor mapping, and global engineering communities.
• Build long-term pipelines for niche talent pools relevant to Data Center.

Interview Excellence & Bar-Raising

• Coach senior engineering leaders on structured interviewing, technical assessments, and consistent bar-raising.
• Establish hiring standards, capability calibration, and decision-making frameworks for high-impact hiring.

Employer Branding for Engineering Talent

• Partner with global and regional teams to strengthen brand.
• Lead engineering events, technical talks, partnerships, and talent outreach in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Offer Strategy, Negotiation & Mobility

• Lead complex offers negotiations involving cross-border mobility, niche skill sets, and senior technical levels.
• Ensure strong alignment with market data, internal equity, and Singapore regulatory frameworks (EP/COMPASS).

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure 100% compliance with Singapore’s Employment Act, FCF, PDPA, and all work pass regulations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for fair hiring guidelines and ethical recruiting.

2. Strategic HR Business Partnering (40%)

Partner to Engineering & R&D Leadership

• Influence people decisions for senior engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Provide strategic advice on team health, capability development, and technical career pathways.

Talent Management & Performance Culture

• Support technical talent reviews, succession planning for critical roles, and engineering career framework alignment.
• Advise on performance challenges, compensation recommendations, and retention actions for scarce skillsets.

Employee Relations & Engagement

• Provide guidance on ER matters, conflict resolution, and team dynamics in high-innovation, high-pressure environments.
• Partner with EHS and Ops on culture reinforcement in lab, prototype, and data canter environments.

Organizational Effectiveness

• Identify team design improvements, process gaps, and manager capability needs.
• Support change management initiatives within engineering and infrastructure groups.

Qualifications & Requirements

Required (Senior Level)

• Bachelor’s degree in HRM, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 8+ years of recruitment experience, with at least 5+ years in technology/engineering hiring.
• Proven experience hiring for hard-to-fill engineering and R&D roles, ideally in:

1. Data centers
2. Hardware / power systems
3. Firmware / embedded
4. Systems / platform engineering

• Strong knowledge of Singapore labor laws, Fair Consideration Framework, PDPA, and work pass processes.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior stakeholders, including directors, principal engineers, and global technical leaders.
• Experience owning strategic hiring programs, employer branding initiatives, or interview transformation projects.

Preferred

• Experience in data center engineering, semiconductor, hardware R&D, or infrastructure tech companies.
• Exposure to global mobility, compensation frameworks, or HR analytics.
• Certifications such as iHRP, SHRM, CIPD are advantageous.