Assistant Director, Human Resources

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on individual to join our HR team. Reporting to the Head, you will play a pivotal role in driving key initiatives across Recruitment and Employer Branding, Compensation and Performance Management, Talent and Leadership Development, Learning and Development, and Employee Engagement. This role requires close collaboration with department heads, HR colleagues and senior management to strengthen organisation capabilities, build a positive workplace culture, and ensure alignment between people strategies and business priorities.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment, ensuring timely hiring and build strong, forward-looking talent pipelines that meet evolving organisational needs.
• Develop and implement employer branding strategies to strengthen the organisation's positioning as an employer of choice.
• Lead the performance management cycle, including appraisal and ranking exercises, to ensure a fair, consistent, and effective process that supports performance differentiation and employee development.
• Lead the talent management and leadership development initiatives, in collaboration with IPOS Group, to build a healthy talent pipeline and strengthen organisational capability.
• Collaborate with IPOS Group to develop and deliver training programmes, competency frameworks, and capability-building initiatives to build future-ready capabilities across the organisation.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives and partner departments on follow-up actions to strengthen workplace culture, employee experience, and engagement levels.
• Support the IPOS Group in compensation review exercises to ensure market competitiveness, and alignment with organisational policies.

Are you the one Please write to us if you have/are:

• Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or a related field.
• At least 8 years of relevant HR experience, including supervisory responsibilities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic and fast thinker with strong analytical skills, attention to detail and ability to work independently in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across HR, departments, and senior management.
• Prior experience in the public sector and in aligning subsidiary HR practices with parent company are preferred but not mandatory.

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About IPOS International

IPOS International, a wholly‐owned subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), is the capability-building arm of the IPOS. We work with enterprises and governments to turn intangible assets and intellectual property (IP) into real business outcomes-driving growth, market expansion, competitive edge and investor readiness. Backed by over 100 IP specialists, including IP strategists, faculty and patent analysts, we bring deep expertise and commercial insight to help organisations grow in the global innovation economy. To achieve this, we will offer committed and passionate individuals a place where their talent and opinions are valued. To succeed as an organisation, we believe in empowering individuals while working as a team of professionals with honesty and displaying integrity as core values. We invest heavily in our people so that they get the training and development they need to succeed.

For more information on IPOS International, please visit www.iposinternational.com.