Job Openings Senior Role – Talent and Culture – Asia Pacific

Singapore
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Have you watched the Apple TV hit series Ted Lasso?

While initially miscast as the coach of an English soccer club, his leadership eventually gains traction, a combination of smarts, experience, and common sense. He’s in it with this team, showing his human side that often manifests as levity.

This role has mani similarities to a coach. We’d love to hire a person in the Ted Lass mode.

We want you to obsess, assess, identify potential and help people grow. Where you spot weakness, we want story arcs where ingenious schemes are hatched to help characters evolve. We want you to put on disguises and stake out other football clubs to build a pipeline of players that we can poach. Most importantly, we want you to also be the lead cheerleader for the kind of culture and brand that we can be.

And if we’re being meta, we want you to win as many Emmy and SAG awards doing this job as Jason Sudekis has won playing the iconic role.

That said, since you’re not an imaginary TV show character, these are some pain points that we’ve identified as a management team:

  • Charting Hoffman’s strategy for acquiring, managing, and nurturing the talent that is the primary capital of our agency’s business.
  • Our organization is going through a phase of hypergrowth – so we also want this coach to champion initiatives that will act as catalysts for our culture to percolate and scale in tandem with our growth.
  • We have trainings, but we want a game plan. Critically, we want someone to build symbiotic relationships between business, operations, and talent related initiatives.
  • We have ambition. That ambition involves onboarding more markets and people – at lightspeed. We want you to think about how we can create an equal playing field for employees in measuring talent that factors in nationality, race, culture, economics, and practicality.
  • We want you to orchestrate succession through upward mobility, instead of induced panic from blind-sided attrition.
  • Awards.
  • We want you to bring Walter White levels of precision chemistry in formulating all the above solutions – We want you to tell us exactly how you want to do it, what you need to get cooking.
  • We want you to come in ready to disagree with us and convince us why you know better.
  • This is a cabinet level role and will report directly to the C-suite.

If you’re interested to come complete this draft of a JD, below is laundry list you can launder:

Knowledge of Agency Life/Clients/Technology

  • Solid knowledge of talent recruitment and branding us as an employer
  • Exceptional leadership skills and the ability to communicate with team members and prospective candidates
  • Understand our business objectives and the nature of our clients
  • Industry knowledge related to PR-led integrated agencies
  • Be knowledgeable, or demonstrate ability to quickly learn how a “Tech agency” differs from agencies servicing other verticals
  • Good interview and negotiation skills

Major Responsibilities:

  • Establishing a talent recruitment strategy to facilitate the hiring of prospective talent. Assessing the company's hiring needs and updating the recruitment strategy accordingly.
  • Coordinating recruitment events and networking with potential candidates.
  • Partner with APAC leadership and staff to foster an environment where the values and best practices of promoting gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are reflected in our community work, management decisions, and throughout the employee experience at Hoffman.
  • Direct and oversee the collaborative identification and development of human resource strategies, focusing on resource planning, talent development, recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee experience, and other strategic HR initiatives and programs across the region. Solicit feedback and suggested improvements.
  • Lead and assist our senior team in delivering training programs, to ensure training scalability and effectiveness.
  • Evaluate and facilitate HR functional capacity and service delivery for the APAC region. Implement collaborative actions to facilitate the evaluation and development of HR services and infrastructure. Build knowledge, expertise, and capacity, leveraging internal and external resources. Ensure effective HR service systems and delivery at multi-levels as confirmed by key stakeholders.
  • Travel to APAC offices as and when needed to provide in-person HR leadership, support, technical training, and/or management of special projects.
  • Lead, motivate, and mentor direct reports, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely constructive performance feedback, and leading documented semi-annual performance reviews, inspiring maximum potential. This includes recruiting the right people for scaling your team.
  • Perform other duties as assigned and contribute to the success of the operations and function at Hoffman.

Key Working Relationships:

Reports to CFO and EVP of Global Operations and works alongside Managing Director, APAC and other senior leaders in the region

Key Internal/External Relationships:

  • APAC Leadership Team
  • Regional HR Team
  • Local HR Teams
  • APAC Operations Teams (Finance, Admin, and IT colleagues)
  • Legal counsel; HR associations and networks

Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred
  • Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in HR, with at least 5 years in a senior HR leadership role
  • Strong track record of success within public relations agency, or in the communications or technology sectors
  • Strong understanding of HR best practices, Employment laws, and regulations in Asia.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and people management skills.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to drive initiatives that align with business goals.
  • Demonstrated success in talent acquisition and development.
  • Experience in fostering and promoting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture
  • Proficient in leveraging HR technology and data analytics to inform decision-making and drive organizational effectiveness

About Us

We're an integrated communications consultancy that specializes in solving hard problems — the tougher, the better — for tech companies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we’ve established a global infrastructure tuned for the tech industry. Toward this end, we operate offices in Boston, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Munich, Paris, Portland, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen, Taipei and Tokyo.

We’re a company that values diversity and inclusion. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability status, veteran status or any other characteristic.

For more information, visit  https://www.hoffman.com/.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in this position, please click Apply Now to learn more and upload your resume.

We will contact all shortlisted candidates from [email protected]
(our HR system).