Job Description
Telenor Asia enables progress in the region with connectivity and digital services. For over 25 years, our telecommunications companies have accelerated mobile adoption in Asia. We broaden access to life-changing innovations and advance national digital agendas. We build critical infrastructure. We nurture local talent. And we foster responsible business standards. As Asia continues to change rapidly, so do we. Telenor Asia is becoming an even better partner for our stakeholders, capturing new growth, and realising our unwavering ambition of value creation. We operate in 4 markets in Asia: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand.
Telenor Asia HQ consists of 60 talented professionals spanning across different corporate functions. As the VP, Leadership & Talent you will be part of the broader People & Ops function reporting to the Head of People & Ops. The main objective of the role is to ensure appointment of leaders to the portfolio companies, whether those appointments are made through internal succession or rotations within the Telenor Group. You will be looking after the Singapore office (Telenor Asia) and its portfolio of companies.
As VP, Leadership & Talent you will get the following tasks:
The role works broadly across several of the disciplines of HR. The working style is consultative and entails a mix of advisory to board members and management of the operating company, dealing with leaders and talent in the operating companies as well as running 1-2 standardized processes. More specifically:
- Managing and continuously uplift our practices within Talent Management with a focus on Leadership, Culture and Org Development.
- Advise to the portfolio of companies, and their board members, on broader HR topics in addition to Talent Management
- Articulate people and organizational strategy together with the operating company and ensure proper follow-up, herein setting ambition level/KPIs
- An advisor in the succession development process by participating in relevant activities (including People Forums and development plan updates) and guiding OpCos to continue efforts in building bench-strength for CxO and CxO-1 roles.
- An advisor to portfolio of companies on being a responsible employer with an initial focus on diversity – strengthening female representation and having more gender balanced leadership teams.
- Other involvements will be possible depending on interest, competence and capacity
To thrive in this role, you will:
- Be solution-orientated: thrives and navigates in ambiguity and be fond of brokering internal relationships to steer positive outcomes.
- Work consultative as the portfolio challenges and opportunities are different and requires different solutions.
- Have critical and analytical thinking: ability to focus on the areas that Talent & Org will have the biggest impact and build clear action plans.
- Have culture-sensitivity: understanding nuances across Asia and be able to achieve the goals through building trust with senior stakeholders and influence.
We think you have the following qualifications and skills:
- Higher education in relevant field, such as Organization and Leadership, Business Administration, or similar
- Proven track record within talent management, having the experience of handling top management
- Being used to assessing senior leaders and aspiring senior leaders, both via assessment frameworks, psychometric testing or similar.
- Understanding the basics of human behaviour, how to build and develop people, being able to have good development dialogues with leaders, good listening skills
- Clear and structured way of presenting, comfortable with presenting for top management
- Understand the different units’ roles and responsibilities in the business environment
- Ability to lead others
- Communicates in a clear, precise and structured manner; speaks with authority and conviction
- Listening skills, builds useful networks and is capable of using them to achieve goals
We offer:
- A unique opportunity to be part of a fast-paced environment and drive a new way of generating value across our Asian markets
- A wide and dynamic HR role where you get a unique combination of both specialist and generalist skills
- Possibility to shape your own role and contribute with your ideas for development in the area
- A job in a diverse international company, with 10,000+ colleagues across the broader Telenor footprint and access to career opportunities
- Top management exposure
Other info:
- The position reports to Head of People & Ops
- Job level will commensurate with experience
- Office is located in Singapore, Guoco Tower in Tanjong Pagar
