Talent Acquisition Manager (APAC)

Datalec Precision Installations Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Datalec Precision Installations Pte Ltd is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager (APAC) to lead the end-to-end recruitment strategy across the Asia-Pacific region. You will attract, engage, and hire technical, engineering, and specialist roles to support DPI's growth and client delivery across multiple APAC countries.

Collaborating with business leaders, project teams and HR, you will build proactive talent pipelines, drive best practices, and enhance the employer brand while ensuring a superior

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or Workforce Planning within regional/global environments.
• Proven experience recruiting technical, engineering, project delivery, and specialist professional roles.
• Experience managing recruitment across multiple APAC countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across the APAC region, managing the full hiring lifecycle from requisition to onboarding.
• Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce needs and develop recruitment strategies aligned to business growth.
• Recruit technical, engineering, project management, digital, and specialist talent for both permanent and contract opportunities.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical project and technical skill sets to support business and client delivery needs.
• Support rapid mobilisation of project resources across APAC to meet project timelines and resource demands.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing market insights, hiring recommendations, and recruitment best practice guidance.
• Drive direct sourcing initiatives through networking, talent mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing channels.
• Manage relationships with recruitment agencies and external workforce partners where required.
• Work closely with the wider Group Talent Acquisition Team to ensure alignment of processes, control of costs and regular reporting.
• Enhance the candidate experience and promote DPI's employer brand across the APAC market.
• Monitor recruitment performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve hiring outcomes, efficiency, and quality of hire.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with local employment legislation and company policies across all APAC jurisdictions.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the recruitment process.
• Represent the business, upholding our core values and behaviours with all internal and external customers, clients and third parties
• Maintain business and client confidentiality, adhering to applicable Data Protection regulations and Information Security Standards in line with company, and group policies and procedures.

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Recruitment

Stakeholder mgmt

Direct sourcing

ATS platforms

LinkedIn Recruiter

Talent mapping

Data-driven decisions

English comms

Tools

ATS platforms

LinkedIn Recruiter

Sourcing tools

Job description

Job Summary

Datalec Precision Installations (DPI) is a leading provider of data centre design, supply, build, and managed services. We are committed to delivering seamless and integrated solutions for data centre operators worldwide. Our team is dedicated to maintaining high standards of service and excellence in every project we undertake.

We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager (APAC) to join our Group Talent Acquisition Team. This role is responsible for leading and executing the end-to-end recruitment strategy across the Asia-Pacific region. This role is accountable for attracting, engaging, and hiring exceptional talent to support DPI's growth objectives, with a particular focus on sourcing and delivering technical, engineering, project, and specialist resources for client-facing and internal projects.

Working closely with business leaders, hiring managers, project teams, and HR colleagues, the Talent Acquisition Manager will build proactive talent pipelines, drive recruitment best practice, enhance employer branding, and ensure a high-quality candidate experience across multiple countries within APAC.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across the APAC region, managing the full hiring lifecycle from requisition to onboarding.
• Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce needs and develop recruitment strategies aligned to business growth.
• Recruit technical, engineering, project management, digital, and specialist talent for both permanent and contract opportunities.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical project and technical skill sets to support business and client delivery needs.
• Support rapid mobilisation of project resources across APAC to meet project timelines and resource demands.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing market insights, hiring recommendations, and recruitment best practice guidance.
• Drive direct sourcing initiatives through networking, talent mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing channels.
• Manage relationships with recruitment agencies and external workforce partners where required.
• Work closely with the wider Group Talent Acquisition Team to ensure alignment of processes, control of costs and regular reporting.
• Enhance the candidate experience and promote DPI's employer brand across the APAC market.
• Monitor recruitment performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve hiring outcomes, efficiency, and quality of hire.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with local employment legislation and company policies across all APAC jurisdictions.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the recruitment process.
• Represent the business, upholding our core values and behaviours with all internal and external customers, clients and third parties
• Maintain business and client confidentiality, adhering to applicable Data Protection regulations and Information Security Standards in line with company, and group policies and procedures.

Qualifications: Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or Workforce Planning within a regional or global environment.
• Proven experience recruiting technical, engineering, project delivery, and specialist professional roles.
• Experience managing recruitment across multiple APAC countries.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels.
• Demonstrated success in direct sourcing, talent mapping, and proactive pipeline development.
• Experience using ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing tools.
• Strong understanding of recruitment metrics and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Values & Behaviours

DPI Values

Dedication Precision Integrity

Behaviours

• Inspiration - Has a clear vision of where to go and the ability to articulate it. Empowers people to implement our vision and strategy. Great communicator who captures the imagination, generating trust and commitment.
• Team Spirit - Thinks about "we" not "me"; we do this together. Brings purpose to the team to make it a cohesive unit. Knows when to seek help and when to give it. Prepared to take action to address issues for the good of the team and celebrate others' successes.
• Self-Awareness - Emotionally intelligent; has empathy for others and gets the best out of people by meeting them on their terms. Great at building rapport with colleagues and customers; knows that their behavior impacts on the performance of others and adapts approach to achieve the best results.
• Achievement - Always striving to be the best and consistently delivers. High performer: bringing high energy, competence and making the right decisions to get things done.
• Tenacity - Relentless in the pursuit of their goals. Excellent at solving problems and overcoming obstacles; seeing the challenges before others see them and taking action, to avoid them becoming problems. Sees setbacks as opportunities and becomes stronger in adversity.
• Influence - Highly skilled at getting others committed to the goal. Confident, enthusiastic and encourages creativity. Understands the needs of stakeholders and as a result, engages them.

Our Vision

• To compete at the highest standards in data centre fit-out, MEP construction and managed services throughout Europe and beyond.

Our Mission

• Continue to develop and deliver products and services unparalleled in terms of quality.
• Retain our clients, broaden our breadth of service identifying closely with their changing requirements.
• Execute a robust H&S and Wellbeing strategy. Consider and implement wherever possible initiatives that relate to environmental improvements.

Our Strategy

• People - Build an organisation capable of managing the business we will become. Recruit and retain and develop the best industry professionals. Health, Safety and Wellbeing remain paramount, for our employees and clients.
• Products - must address an industry need. We must have differentiators such as assured quality, modularisation, and off‑site construction techniques. Datalec’s commitment to quality is unsurpassed in the industry, we seek perfection. New products and services must be delivered to the same exacting standards.
• Purpose - relates both to our clients and our organisation. We need to understand both how to be able to confidently present our solutions and product strategy to the market. Separately, we create a working environment that promotes and rewards employees fairly, actively supporting a culture of transparency and mutual respect.