AVP Recruitment & Talent Acquisition - Asia
Manulife Financial (Asia)
Total years of experience :26 years, 4 Months
Successfully steer Recruitment teams to maximize performance in consistently completing recruiting initiatives in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment requiring superior planning, organization, and leadership skills.
Perform a broad spectrum of duties, including overseeing all facets of Manulife's Strategic Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, and Recruitment needs across Asia.
• Train, mentor, support talent acquisition specialists in building a regional talent research function in Asia, with an emphasis on executing direct sourcing and recruiting strategies for continued growth and expansion.
• Track and oversee all facets of recruitment for executive (AVP - GM level) appointments across Asia from inception through completion.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in Recruitment Project Management, Strategic Sourcing Strategies, Direct Recruitment Strategies, Social Media Strategy, Global Mobility Management Campus Recruitment, Executive Recruitment, and Vendor Management, further illustrating versatility and industry expertise.
Contributed management and sharp business acumen in leading Blue's Asian recruitment delivery operations dealing with Customer Services and Third Party Relationship Management.
• Applied expert business development proficiencies in procuring and cultivating important relationships with key clients and alliance partners including Nomura, Prudential Insurance Asia, HP, SAP, CapGemini & Software AG; played a key role in consistently securing quality resources throughout APJ.
Recruited to play an integral role in developing and executing key strategies in support of outsourced Recruitment Management solution to Hewlett Packard.
• Built top-performing local personnel vital to supporting enterprise-wide operations by strategically recruiting and effectively interviewing, screening and testing candidates.
• Effectively tracked performance by comprehensively reviewing and reconciling P&L statements and using data to define future business strategies.
Delivered HR and Recruitment Management support across global business to promote and enhance a quality HR/Recruitment Management System. Actively collaborated with the senior board and business units to define the senior level skills needed to implement appropriate sourcing strategies.
As senior member of SAP APJ Recruitment/Shared Services team, led recruitment for SAP's South East Asian operations across senior disciplines including SAP assigned Country Recruitment Manager.
• Teamed with various HR partners, keys stakeholders (SVP level), hiring managers, and the regional recruitment team to implement appropriate direct sourcing strategies.
Led all facets of daily staffing and recruitment management in support of 25 offices on a global scale. Launched innovative strategies in support of change management and talent acquisition.
• Directed compliance management for global deployment of staff, deployment for global sourcing and staffing departments, and screening of potential suppliers and applicants.
• Actively liaised between Area Managers and senior board to support the evaluation of supplier RFQ's, RFI's, RFP, SOW's, and MOP's.
Led staffing services division across Middle East, Asia, Africa and sub-continents regions, providing local and regional consulting management services covering both on- and off-site interim consulting solutions.
• Identified local partners, suppliers and applicants, and negotiated with local and team with Client Managers in drafting SOW's, further illustrating exceptional industry expertise.
• Steered reference checking, logistical management, visa application management, and travel management.
Supervised account management for internal/external clients located throughout EMEA region, and led sales strategies and campaigns for internal and external clients in the EMEA region.
Continued
• Tracked internal network, databases, external advertising partners, job pages, global recruitment partners/suppliers, and job events/conferences to achieve staffing objectives to maximize use of resources while controlling costs.
Designed and integrated recruitment plans for external clients in the Benelux region, with accountability for tracking client delivery as well as mentoring junior team on resource/recruitment issues.
Recruited by International Director of resourcing to manage Benelux (start up) resource/recruitment team in London.
Contributed business development expertise to develop relationships with key business contacts across Europe.
Career Note: Additional experience as Senior Resource Specialist for Spring Plc (The Netherlands), (Interim) Senior Benelux Resourcing Consultant for Lorien Resourcing Plc (London), and Senior Benelux Consultant for Alexander Mann Technologies (London / the Netherlands)
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