Total 4 Director/C-Level human resources job vacancies in Singapore

The Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), is a senior enterprise leader and key architect of business performance, responsible for shaping the workforce, leadership capability, and operating culture that enable sustained growth, owner confidence, and brand strength across the region.

This role goes beyond leading an HR function. The CHRO is a steward of culture, architect of talent strategy, and catalyst for transformation, ensuring that people, leadership, and organizational capability are tightly aligned with business priorities. Operating at the intersection of enterprise strategy and local market realities, the CHRO champions a modern, inclusive, and future‑ready people agenda that enables associates, leaders, owners, and franchise partners to thrive.

EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS

STRATEGIC TALENT & ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP

• Act as a core member of leadership team, integrating people strategy into business planning, transformation initiatives, and growth priorities to drive unit growth, market expansion, and brand excellence / evolution.

• Anticipate workforce trends, capability gaps, and organizational risks, translating insights into proactive, data‑informed people decisions.

• Shape end‑to‑end talent strategies—spanning attraction, development, engagement, and succession—to build strong leadership pipelines, organizational resilience and ultimately ensure the achievement of targets in support of the continent’s balanced scorecard goals.

CULTURE, LEADERSHIP, & CHANGE ENABLEMENT

• Champion a high‑performance, inclusive culture that reflects the values of the company while embracing regional and local market diversity.

• Lead enterprise and regional change efforts—including organizational evolution, leadership transitions, and business transformation—ensuring adoption, engagement, and sustained impact.

• Anticipate inflection points and proactively reconfigure talent, leadership, and culture to support future business scenarios.

• Elevate leadership effectiveness through coaching, organizational development, and targeted capability‑building across all levels.

• Champion excellence in business ethics and integrity, social responsibility, cross-cultural effectiveness, and associate engagement.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Proven success as a Senior HR Lead, including a minimum of five years leading HR at a business unit, division, or enterprise level with a prior track record of increasingly responsible and progressive career growth.

• Experience operating as a member of a senior executive or regional leadership team within complex, matrixed, multi‑market organizations.

• Demonstrated leadership of large‑scale transformation efforts, including organizational change, talent strategy evolution, and enterprise program adoption.

• Strong ability to influence across cultures, geographies, and stakeholder groups.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• A blend of HR generalist leadership and depth in one or more specialty areas(talent, OD, rewards, workforce strategy, or learning).

• A track record of modernizing HR practices through digital enablement, analytics, and improved associate experience.

Requirements:

Must have hands on experience in Head of Human Resources or equivalent Capacity

Preferably with a Bachelor Degree/Diploma

Attractive Perks and Remuneration

Are you an experienced HR leader ready to shape the future of Pandora’s growth in Asia?

Do you thrive in dynamic, high-performance environments where you can drive transformation, empower people, and build a culture of excellence? Are you excited by the opportunity to help establish a new regional HQ that will play a pivotal role in one of Pandora’s most ambitious strategic initiatives? If so, this could be your next big move.

About the role

As HR Director you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Pandora’s growth in Asia. You will join a vibrant and ambitious HR team and work closely with senior leaders across multiple functions—including HR, Finance, Legal, and Strategy—to co-create and execute impactful People plans that directly support our business strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to help establish a new regional HQ from the ground up, embedding a strong and cohesive culture while driving transformation across the cluster. You will act as a trusted advisor, coach, and challenger to leaders, fostering an inclusive, engaging, and high-performing environment that reflects Pandora’s core values: Dream, Dare, Care, and Deliver.

In this highly strategic and hands-on role, you will be instrumental in building strong partnerships across the global HR community, contributing to meaningful business transformation and ensuring alignment between local execution and global priorities. You will need to bring an enterprise mindset, balancing the needs of the cluster with the broader ambitions of Pandora globally.

As the HR Director, your key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Business Partnering

You will be part of a team of HR Directors partnering with executive leaders and their teams to drive talent, succession planning, and development initiatives. In Pandora, business partnering has a strong focus on talent, succession, and development, but it also extends beyond that to include organisational development, operating models, ways of working, structure, costs, growth, sizing, and the overall People Experience.

• People Plans and Engagement

As part of the HR team, you will be responsible for establishing and delivering a strong People and Sustainability plan for the cluster. This includes driving initiatives that enhance Employee Engagement and the overall Employee Experience across the region.

As the cluster evolves, you will play a key role in identifying what’s needed to support its growth—from adapting People strategies to anticipating future workforce needs. Your ability to align plans with both current realities and future ambitions will be essential in building a thriving and engaged organisation.

• Talent Authority

Advance the talent, succession, and development agenda across your functional area by enabling leaders to grow their teams and develop future-ready talent. Your efforts will fuel engagement, strengthen leadership, and positively impact net promoter scores. A key part of this role is to ensure we build a strong and sustainable talent pipeline that supports both current needs and long-term growth.

As part of setting up the cluster, recruitment will be a large part of the role, with a strong emphasis on hiring the right talent for the future across the region. This also includes a focus on building a strong and cohesive culture within the cluster, ensuring that new hires and organisational practices align with Pandora’s strategic direction and values.

• Operational Excellence

You will be responsible for delivering on key HR KPIs while ensuring smooth and effective day-to-day operations. At the same time, you will help build and professionalise a high-performing, value-adding HR team that consistently delivers a positive people experience and collaborates closely with our Centres of Expertise.

In this role, you will also play a key part in driving HR transformation by establishing modern, scalable ways of working that support operational excellence and long-term growth—ensuring the cluster is set up to scale and ready for the future.

• Annual HR Wheel Execution

Co-create and lead global People initiatives and solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking a positive, flexible, and driven leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and consistently delivers outstanding results. You bring an enterprise mindset, with the ability to balance the needs of the cluster with the broader strategic priorities of Pandora globally.

You are a skilled communicator who can distil complexity into clear, actionable insights, and you excel at building strong, collaborative relationships across a diverse and global stakeholder network.

Your profile

• Proven success in an HR leadership role within a global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience in business partnering, organizational design, and talent development.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Track record of translating business goals into actionable HR strategies.
• Expertise in setting up, managing and driving change within HR functions.
• Knowledge of employment law in Singapore and Japan.

What makes you stand out

• A natural ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and a structured approach to delivering business outcomes.
• Experience in leadership development, organizational transformation, and change management.
• A growth mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities

1. Account & Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as senior interface to customers and internal executives.

• Chair or co‑chair steering and programme governance forums, ensuring clear decisions, explicit ownership, controlled escalation 

• Manage misalignment between stakeholders with different priorities (e.g. governance vs operations) and drive resolution at the correct level.

2. Delivery Intervention & Stabilisation (Critical)

• Actively intervene in delivery when execution quality is weak, specifically: 

  • Reframing priorities and critical path

  • Improving decision clarity

  • Enforcing action discipline

• Work side‑by‑side with PMs to: 

  • Improve meeting quality

  • Upgrade steering presentations and minutes

  • Strengthen follow‑up discipline

• Accountable for raising execution capability.

3. Project Manager Uplift & Governance

• Provide coaching to PMs on issue framing, situation awareness, dependency management, risk‑based prioritisation, stakeholder communication, cost control.

• Establish minimum execution standards, eg: Action logs, Steering decks, Decision tracking.

• Intervene decisively when performance creates material delivery risk.

4. Vendor & Dependency Management

• Manage high‑risk third‑party dependencies that affect milestones.

• Manage vendor escalation, deadlock resolution, contractual or commercial leverage decisions

• Provide guidance on vendor management

5. Programme Governance & Commercial Control

• Own programme‑level: Delivery confidence, Financial outcomes, Change control discipline

• Ensure governance exists to enable high quality execution.

• Protect contractual position while maintaining workable stakeholder relationships.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant project / programme delivery experience, with at least 5 years in a Project Director / Programme Lead or equivalent senior role. PMP certification or equivalent preferred.

• Proven leadership of large, complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes (public sector, regulated environments, or mission‑critical systems strongly preferred) on time, within budget, and in compliance with legal requirements.

• Strong leadership and management skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels, including legal teams and clients.

• Experience in financial management, resource allocation, and risk management within project environments.

• Demonstrates structured and credible leadership under delivery pressure, with the ability to thrive in fast‑paced environments while consistently driving results and continuous improvement.

Licence no: 12C6060

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and resilient Cloud Services Delivery Director to lead our Agency Tenant Facilities Management (ATFM) cloud operations team. In this role, you will be the driving force overseeing tenant workloads across the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) environment, with a primary focus on AWS architecture.

Key Responsibilities

ATFM Cloud Operations & Service Management

• GCC Environment Management: Establish, maintain, and supervise highly available, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure hosting critical tenant agency applications within the GCC framework.
• Day-to-Day Operations Support: Lead the ATFM engineering team in simplifying and running routine IT infrastructure operations for various government tenant agencies.
• Automation & Monitoring: Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using automation (e.g., Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC via Terraform or CloudFormation) to maximize operational efficiency.
• Incident & Problem Management: Take accountability for high-severity incident responses, leading swift containment and resolution efforts to minimize disruption to public digital services.
• Tenant Lifecycle Management: Oversee the end-to-end cloud journey for tenant agencies, including resource allocation, continuous performance tuning, and capacity planning.

Services Governance & GCC Migration

• Cloud Readiness Assessment: Lead detailed infrastructure and workload assessments for legacy or on-premises systems shifting to GCC AWS environments.
• Migration Execution: Develop and drive flawless cloud migration roadmaps, managing resource schedules, timelines, and application onboarding constraints smoothly.
• Financial & Cost Governance: Analyze ongoing cloud spend across tenant agencies, enforcing strict cost optimization and control mechanisms to ensure responsible public fund spending.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate effectively with GovTech central teams, tenant agency stakeholders, and auxiliary security teams to align cloud delivery with overarching Whole-of-Government (WOG) digital objectives.

Infrastructure Security Compliance (WOG & IM8)

• IM8 Alignment: Ensure all tenant architectures strictly integrate and comply with Singapore Government IM8 (Instruction Manual 8) policies, CSA guidelines, and public sector data classification requirements.
• Access & Data Protection: Enforce mandatory security controls, prioritizing strict Identity and Access Management (IAM), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), network segmentation, and encryption for data at rest and in transit.
• Continuous Threat Monitoring: Supervise continuous infrastructure monitoring, leveraging cloud-native tools like AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub to preemptively identify and mitigate zero-day exploits, DDoS risks, and unauthorized access.
• Audits & Vulnerability Management: Direct routine security vulnerability assessments, strict patch management schedules, penetration tests, and compliance audits across tenant environments.
• Secure Disaster Recovery (DR): Ensure backup architectures are tightly secured and encrypted and coordinate regular WOG-aligned DR drills to ensure business continuity for critical national applications.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: ~15 years of experience in IT operations, with at least ~10 years in enterprise cloud environments.
• GovTech/Public Sector Exposure: Proven experience operating within the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) environment, or a comprehensive understanding of Singapore public sector ICT governance.
• AWS Technical Depth: Expert architectural and operational knowledge of AWS services, DevOps pipelines, and infrastructure management.
• Compliance Proficiency: Deep practical familiarity with IM8 controls, MTCS, or equivalent high-compliance security frameworks.
• Tooling: Proficient with IaC deployment tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management automation tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• ITIL (Service Management)

Interested candidates, please send your CVs on nabilah.azman@tg-hr.com

Regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

CEI: R1988671

EA License: 14C7275