Head of Talent Acquisition SEA

Job Description:

Were looking for a strategic and people-focused Talent Acquisition Lead Southeast Asia (SEA) to lead regional recruitment operations across multiple markets and business segments.

You will lead a team of Talent Acquisition Partners and Coordinators drive recruitment excellence across the full hiring lifecycle and partner closely with business leaders to attract exceptional talent across Southeast Asia.

Youll play a key role in strengthening talent pipelines elevating the candidate experience and ensuring delivery against key hiring priorities and SLAs.

In addition you will bring end-to-end leadership structure and strategic coherence across SEA ensuring all markets operate with shared standards tools and expectations while maintaining the cultural nuance addition you will bring end-to-end leadership structure and strategic coherence across SEAensuring allmarketsoperatewith shared standards tools and expectations whilemaintainingtheculturalnuancerequired.

What youll do

• Lead and develop the Southeast Asia Talent Acquisition team across end-to-end recruitment delivery.
• Partner with business leaders and P&O teams to execute regional hiring strategies.
• Drive Talent Acquisition strategies process standardisation and operational excellence across multiple Southeast Asia markets.
• Bring teams together through strong collaboration consistent ways of working and a shared focus on delivering an exceptional hiring experience.
• Manage recruitment operations workload allocation and stakeholder escalations across the region.
• Build proactive talent pipelines and support strategic and executive hiring initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement across recruitment processes tools and candidate experience.
• Strengthen the Mars employer brand across Southeast Asia markets.

What were looking for

• Significant Talent Acquisition experience across in-house and/or RPO environments including proven leadership experience managing recruitment teams within regional or multi-market organisations.
• Experience developing and implementing TA strategies across regional or multi-market environments.
• Experience operating in fast-paced complex and multicultural environments.
• Ability to serve geographically distributed hiring managers and stakeholders across multiple Southeast Asia markets while consistently delivering professional market-aligned customer service.
• Strong stakeholder management communication and operational leadership capability.
• Experience with recruitment systems such as Workday Avature or HireVue.
• Proven ability to standardise processes drive alignment and lead teams through change in complex organisations.
• Southeast Asia market experience highly regarded.

Why Work at Mars

At Mars we offer more than just a job we offer a career with a purpose and great perks! Heres what you can expect:

• A Global Network Work with diverse and talented Associates all guided by the Five Principles.
• Purpose-Driven Work Join a purpose driven company where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow today.
• Learning & Development Best-in-class learning and development support from day one including access to our in-house Mars University.
• Competitive Compensation An industry competitive salary and benefits package including company bonus.

Diversity & Inclusion at Mars

• Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability it is available upon request.
• The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Required Experience:

Director

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1