HR job moves from Circles.Life, L'Oréal, Funding Societies, Mercer, and more

Here are the major promotions and job moves in the world of HR for this week.

If you’ve been promoted or if you’ve moved to a new company, let us know and we will announce your news here – just email priyas@humanresourcesonline.net.

– with inputs from Aditi Sharma Kalra

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HR practitioner appointments

Alex Png moves from Grab to Circles.Life as Head of Employer Branding, Campus and Diversity HiringDigital telecom operator Circles.Life has appointed Alex Png (pictured below) as Head of Employer Branding, Campus and Diversity Hiring, where he takes care of the twin R&D Centres in Singapore and Bengaluru, as well as the global operations in Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

In this role, he shapes the employer branding strategies, defines campus engagement and outreach plans, and crafts a series of all-inclusive diversity programmes to enrich the talent pools. At the same time, he works on culture-building initiatives, as well as partners the business closely in framing and executing communications plans to engage Circles.Lifers (the employees). Given the company is actively expanding, his role will will grow in tandem with the scale of operations.

 

"We are pleased to have Craig lead MSIG Singapore as CEO. He is an accomplished leader with extensive management and industry experience, and will be a great asset to MSIG Singapore as we continue to drive stronger growth and profitability in the region," Alan J Wilson, Regional CEO, MSIG Asia, said on this appointment.

SIM appoints new President and Chief Executive OfficerThe Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) has appointed Seah Chin Siong as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Currently CEO of Singapore Pools, Seah will join SIM effective 1 May to helm the SIM Group.

Before working at Singapore Pools, Seah was the founding chief executive of IDA International, a subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. He led the company in helping public agencies around the world harness infocomm-enabled capabilities to improve their socio-economic situations.

Seah was also formerly Managing Director of Accenture's Public Service Operating Group for Asia-Pacific and Country Managing Director of Accenture Singapore. His 25-year experience spans across technology, business development, strategy formulation and change management.

Sujay Karra moves to Singapore to join MercerEffective February 2019. Sujay Karra has moved to the Singapore office of HR consulting firm Mercer as Client Director Executive Remuneration (Singapore) / Frontier Markets, and will be responsible for growing the business and enhancing the solutions and capabilities.

Prior to this appointment, Karra was with McLagan in Dubai (UAE) for the last seven years, where he joined as an Analyst and grew through the ranks to his last role within key account management and as Business Development Leader for the Sultanate of Oman. He was also Sales Incentives Practice Leader for the Retail Banking vertical in the Middle East and Africa region.

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