Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will lead the talent acquisition strategy for Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, ensuring alignment with business growth objectives, workforce priorities and broader people strategies. You will operate as a strategic partner to senior business leaders, providing expertise on talent market trends, workforce planning and hiring strategies to enable organisational capability and long-term growth.
You will lead the end-to-end recruitment function for Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, balancing strategic direction with operational excellence to deliver high-quality, scalable and data-driven hiring outcomes. Working cross-functionally with People & Culture, business leaders and external partners, you will drive continuous improvement across recruitment practices, talent pipelines, employer branding and candidate experience.
As a people leader, you will develop and lead a high-performing recruitment team, fostering capability, innovation, accountability and strong stakeholder partnerships across the business.
Your Day to Day
- Provide day-to-day leadership and performance management for the recruitment team of two Senior Talent Acquisition Specialists, setting clear priorities, allocating workload, coaching and ensuring strong talent advisory partnerships across markets.
- Lead and execute a multi-country talent acquisition strategy aligned with business hiring priorities, workforce plans and organisational growth objectives.
- Partner with senior leaders and People & Culture stakeholders to shape hiring strategies, workforce capability plans and talent outcomes across the business.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment operations, ensuring consistent, efficient and high-quality delivery across all hiring activity.
- Provide strategic market insights and talent intelligence to influence hiring decisions, organisational planning and competitive positioning.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted adviser on talent acquisition strategy, market conditions and hiring challenges.
- Lead and develop a high-performing recruitment team, driving capability uplift, performance, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the development of diverse and sustainable talent pipelines for critical and future-focused roles.
- Use data, reporting and workforce insights to monitor performance, identify trends and drive informed decision-making and operational improvements.
- Drive operational excellence across recruitment governance, systems, processes, employer branding and candidate experience.
- Manage external agency and vendor partnerships, ensuring effective delivery, commercial value and alignment with business expectations.
- Ensure recruitment practices comply with local legislation, governance requirements and inclusive hiring standards.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional talent and transformation initiatives that enhance organisational capability and hiring effectiveness.
Requirements
- In-house or RPO experience in talent acquisition, with proven people leadership experience within complex, fast-paced or high-growth environments.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing, coaching and developing internal or RPO recruiters, including performance management, workload planning and capability building.
- Proven ability to lead and scale talent acquisition teams and develop high-performing recruitment teams.
- Strong strategic stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with senior leaders.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing workforce and hiring strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to solve complex organisational and talent challenges.
- Experience using market insights, workforce analytics and data to drive hiring decisions and continuous improvement.
- Strong understanding of local talent markets, hiring trends and workforce dynamics.
- Experience leading recruitment operations, governance, vendor management and process optimisation initiatives.
- Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving and organisational skills.
- Experience with recruitment technologies and talent systems, such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, BambooHR or similar.
AirTrunk Singapore, Singapore, SGP Office
18 Robinson Road, Level 23-01, Singapore, Singapore, 048547
