Director, Group Talent Acquisitions

About FWD Group

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves more than 38 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD's customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828.

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Key accountabilities

• Work with the Group Head of TA in talent acquisition strategies including planning, budgeting and delivery of required talent for FWD
• Build strong and effective direct sourcing strategies
• Build strong connection with candidates in Insurance and Financial Institutions areas
• Build talent pipelines particularly for high-risk roles
• Manage senior stakeholder is a key responsibilities of this role
• Work with key stakeholders across HR and in the business to ensure the talent needs of the organisation are met in an effective and high-quality manner including strategic hiring and volume hiring
• Responsible for the Junior Talent program including the design and implementation.
• Responsible for the TA projects and program
• Optimise the Talent Acquisition process with the objective of increasing internal hiring where it makes sense.
• Build the Talent Acquisition policies and review the existing Talent Acquisition process, and enhances system across FWD
• Develop and manage a high quality on-boarding process for FWD
• Build effective sourcing strategies and bring down the cost of talent acquisition across the organisation
• Own and develop employer branding in conjunction with the communications, marketing and HR teams across FWD, including our presence in digital and social media platforms
• Use internal resources and technology to develop insightful MIS that is useful for developing strategy and an aid to decision making for FWD
• Develop and manage high quality vendor partnerships including executive search firms, online platforms and other recruitment vendors
• Work and collaborate closely and effectively with HR teams particularly HRBP and Total Rewards team on talent acquisition
• Prepare compensation offer to candidates following the company compensation philosophy and practice.
• Work with the wider HR team in developing appropriate assessment mechanisms that are aligned across FWD
• Support the FWD Diversity agenda through Talent Acquisition activities

Qualifications / experience

• Degree qualified or equivalent
• Technology proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, applicant tracking tools, HRIS, internet, other research tools. Familiarity with Workday will be an advantage
• Competence in Talent Acquisition intelligence with hands-on on leadership, niche and strategic hiring.
• Knowledge of a variety of sourcing channels, including latest sourcing trends and networking techniques such as LinkedIn, behavioural and competency based interviewing including ability to educate hiring managers in these skills
• Evolved communication, consultative and negotiating skills.
• emphasizing collaboration and teamwork.
• Experience having worked in a corporate environment and international companies a must
• Experience in-house TA in insurance and / or financial institutions
• Excellent communication skills
• High fluency in written and spoken English

Knowledge & technical skills

• Knowledge of HR processes and systems
• Adept at business partnering
• Strong commercial acumen
• Talent management & people skills
• Strong senior stakeholder management
• Conflict management & negotiation skills
• Industry awareness of HR best practices
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
• Customer focussed and business oriented.
• Proactive, hands-on with a can-do approach.
• A positive, flexible and proactive approach.
• Creative and innovative orientation
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools