Careers

Our corporate teams provide institutional support within Temasek by ensuring the smooth functioning of our business.

Whether it is to anticipate and adapt to demands from the evolving external and internal environments, or to safeguard our institution’s interests, our corporate functions are here to meet the challenges and needs of our business globally.

Teams are organised as follows:

• Administration

• Community Stewardship

• Finance

• Institutional Relations 

• Internal Communications

• Investment Services

• Legal & Regulatory

• Organisation & People 

• Procurement

• Public Affairs

• Technology

The Enterprise Development Group serves as a development engine, going beyond investing for growth to building for growth.

The group focuses on mapping our future business value chain; staying abreast with innovation and macro business trends; and identifying and developing new business enterprises that have the potential to be global, regional or domestic champions.

Our Investment Group includes our Direct Investment teams which comprise Sectors and Markets teams.

The Sectors teams are broadly organised into industry clusters. They are: 

• Agri-Food
• Credit and Hybrid Solutions
• Financial Services
• Impact Investing
• Industrials, Business Services, and Energy & Resources
• Innovation
• Life Sciences
• POD (AI)
• POD (Blockchain)
• Private Equity Fund Investments
• Public Markets
• Real Estate
• Structuring & Execution
• Technology & Consumer
• Transportation & Logistics 

The Markets teams comprise staff from our international offices.

The local network and knowledge these teams build enable us to have better insights and allow us to quickly respond to investment opportunities in the markets. The Markets teams work closely with our Sectors teams to complement their sector domain knowledge and provide local monitoring of investments.

Portfolio Development partners select major portfolio companies on strategic repositioning and/or value creation initiatives. The group works closely with the Boards and Management of these portfolio companies to perform strategic reviews of current business lines in light of changing industry conditions, determine point-of-arrival and identify capability gaps, and evaluate and execute on strategic initiatives that would reposition the company and its stakeholders for sustainable and profitable long-term growth.

Our Portfolio Strategy & Risk Group is to help provide more top-down guidance on our strategic direction and portfolio objectives. The group actively explores overlay and alternative portfolio strategies to enhance our portfolio returns. They are: 

• ESG Investment Management
• Investment Data Science
• Macro Strategy
• PSRG Office
• Quantitative Strategy & Performance Analytics
• Risk Management

The Sustainability Group seeks to embed sustainability into everything that we do.

In partnership with different parts of Temasek and our eco-system, the group initiates, develops and implements strategies to address climate change and to deliver a climate-resilient, net-zero portfolio; catalyses new business opportunities and solutions that contribute to sustainable development and create positive impact to our communities; advances thought leadership on various sustainability topics; and supports our growth as a sustainable organisation to create shared value and ensure long-term performance.

Internal Audit

The Internal Audit team provides independent and objective assurance via a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of key risk controls and governance processes. The team ensures all internal controls are well designed and effective across geographies and operations, and that control awareness and compliance are high in the organisation.
 

Strategic Development

The Strategic Development team focuses on investments into upstream Research & Development (R&D) that will have high impact, good commercialisation potential, and/or strategic benefits, to build globally competitive and differentiated capabilities for Temasek, its portfolio companies and ecosystem. SD also aims to enhance resilience in strategic segments and/or value chains within our ecosystem, by initiating targeted investments to strengthen the underlying security of our ecosystem, operating models and businesses.
 

Strategy Office

The Strategy Office looks into a portfolio of business and institutional initiatives in line with the firm’s strategic roadmap, such as scenario planning.
 

Singapore Market

In support of Temasek’s ecosystem development efforts, the Singapore Market team (SGM) is responsible for forging strategic partnerships and advancing Temasek’s policy interests with the government and other relevant stakeholders in Singapore. SGM works closely with investment/enterprise development teams to identify public policies that impact Temasek’s business interests, engages key stakeholders including government officials, regulators and trade unions to advocate for our value proposition as well as promote collaboration in the building of new economy enterprises and ecosystems in Singapore.