Introduction
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Your Role And Responsibilities
As the APAC Talent Acquisition Manager, you will lead a team of Talent Acquisition Partners driving team leadership, hiring strategy development, and execution for APAC's Engineering, IT and Corporate Functions teams. Your primary responsibilities include:
- Team Leadership: Lead the APAC Talent Acquisition team, composed of approximately 8 talent acquisition partners. Because our teams are built for efficiency and rely on shared services, you will frequently partner with other teams that support delivery
- Coaching and Development: Coach, develop, and enable the TA team to consistently deliver exceptional results and be future-ready, aligned to Global Talent Acquisition goals and continuous improvement standards.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, identifying workforce trends, risks, and opportunities to inform talent strategies and ensure alignment with evolving business priorities.
- Subject-Matter Expertise: Serve as the global Talent Acquisition subject-matter expert for the India market and the APAC Engineering and IT talent landscape, providing data-driven insights to influence hiring strategy, workforce planning, and long-term capability needs.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Team Leadership Experience: Experience leading India and APAC delivery teams, including strategy development and execution, with a focus on achieving business outcomes
- Talent Acquisition Expertise: Strong expertise across end-to-end talent acquisition, including program design, implementation, and optimization to address complex and high-demand hiring challenges aligned to business priorities.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders to identify hiring trends, risks, and opportunities impacting Talent Acquisition, including ownership of escalations and leadership of APAC-focused hiring initiatives.
- Coaching and Development Skills: Experience building high-performing teams through coaching, skill development, and operational enablement, ensuring teams operate efficiently and consistently deliver exceptional results.
- Business Outcome Achievement: Track record of developing and achieving goals, driving business outcomes, and ensuring team performance meets expectations.
- Analytics: Demonstrated ability to use data to drive decision-making.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Transformation Program Design: Experience leading or contributing to programs in support of Talent Acquisition goals, ensuring effective execution and achievement of desired outcomes.
- Emerging Trends Analysis: Ability to analyze and interpret emerging talent market trends and workforce dynamics to proactively influence Talent Acquisition strategies and business alignment.
- Talent Acquisition Process Optimization: Experience working with talent acquisition processes to identify areas for improvement and optimize results.
