Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - ASIA

Based in Singapore

About Argus

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.

Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy.  Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.

Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women’s network.  Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership and Inclusivity.  Argus’ Asia business is headquartered in Singapore and covers operations across Singapore, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Korea, Sydney, Indonesia and Mumbai.

What will you be doing?

We are currently looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to come on board and manage recruitment for the Asia business.  The core focus of this role is to ensure we are hiring the best talent for the business in a reasonable timeframe, through strategic resourcing and strong career branding as well as leveraging off our networks.

This is a great opportunity to develop and apply a tailored recruitment strategy to ensure suitable talent pipelines across all departments and levels of the business – your efforts will make a real difference in helping Argus to achieve its ambitious targets.

With a successful background in direct recruitment, you will be ready to partner with the business to identify and attract the highest quality candidates. You will engage with managers in all departments to understand their requirements in order to provide a professional and comprehensive recruitment service across the business. The ideal candidate will radiate positive energy and will thrive in a fast-paced environment, providing specialist advice and juggling a wide variety of tasks as well as adding value to the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner and form relationships with internal management teams to know the ins and outs of their departments and better understand their hiring needs and job specifications.
• Define comprehensive recruitment channels to identify and attract key talent.
• Proactively source for ideal candidates and develop local networks to ensure constant flow of qualified candidates using a variety of sources, including direct sourcing via LinkedIn, Argus Career Pages, relevant job boards, utilizing social media, network contacts, database searches, outreach initiatives to key universities and promoting our internal referral scheme to create a diverse candidate pool.
• Work with hiring managers to create interesting and enticing job descriptions relevant to the role and promote on our career pages and relevant job boards.
• Perform recruiting tasks with a sense of urgency and efficiency necessary to achieve or exceed desired staffing levels on a regular and consistent basis.
• Pre-screen candidates, set up interview schedules, conduct interviews, coordinate verification checks, and track candidates in our applicant tracking system (Jobvite).
• Manage and maintain excellent communication with candidates throughout the hiring process, creating an excellent candidate experience and supporting and developing our brand reputation.
• Manage the interview and selection process, supporting hiring managers to ensure a timely and efficient hiring process.
• Efficiently schedule phone screens and manage the interview process providing regular updates on progress to candidates and managers.
• Ensure a cost-effective service, fully utilizing direct channels, and internal networks.
• Work with the local HR team to keep the company competitive in the marketplace.
• Maintain current knowledge of recruiting and hiring trends to inform management.
• Establish trust and confidence by maintaining a high level of credibility, integrity, and skilled communications with hiring managers, HR, and candidates.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelors’ degree and at least five years of direct sourcing work experience.
• Success working as a pro-active recruiter in a fast-paced commercial business, experience in information services preferred.
• Have experience recruiting and pro-actively sourcing in countries outside of Singapore, including China (Beijing and Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), Indonesia, Australia (Sydney), Dubai and Korea.
• Proven ability to proactively build and manage a candidate pool with experience engaging passive candidates and networking to generate referrals.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to multi-task and deliver at pace on a high workload with attention to detail, as well as the ability to prioritize.
• Strong competency and behavioural interviewing experience
• Ability to deal with issues in a discreet and confidential manner.
• Excellent time management skills and a strong attention to detail
• Believe in the following Argus values: Passion, Integrity, Excellence and Results

Attributes

• A passion for connecting with people. Collaborates well and is a team player.
• A positive and flexible approach focused on achieving results.
• Proactive, pragmatic and resilient.
• Desire to help a business grow and the people in that business to develop.

What’s in it for you

• Work within a highly motivated team at an industry-leading and rapidly growing global company.
• Competitive salary and commission scheme.
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork.
• Excellent location at Raffles Place in central Singapore – close to public transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model - Work from Home options available.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical (GP and specialist), dental and hospitalisation.
• 20 vacation days your first year, up to a maximum of 25 days.
• Extensive internal and external training.
• Employee Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme.

We're not engaging any recruitment agencies for this role, so if you're interested, please apply directly.

We will conduct interviews continuously and reserve the right to take down the advertisement when we find the right candidate.

Please send in your application via our official career’s website at https://www.argusmedia.com/en/careers/open-positions.