Regional Talent Acquisition Lead, Apac

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Regional Talent Acquisition Lead, APAC

Permanent Role

Location: Sydney, Australia

Due to very high business growth, Kantar Public has a very exciting new opportunity available for a Regional Talent Acquisition Lead to deliver on our hiring plan in APAC, notably in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and to the Regional CEOs for APAC, you will be the enabler within the APAC business on all Talent Acquisition matters. You will build close working relationships with the Business Leaders, local HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition colleagues to develop, implement and drive the end-to-end recruitment process to attract top talents in the region.

Kantar Public is global social research advising company, providing research evidence and consultancy. Our work helps universities, corporations and governments to make the right decisions and improve people’s lives. We are experts in public policy, service design, behavioural insight and election research, employing over 700 people globally. Our specialist teams around the world advise our clients on national statistics and longitudinal programmes, public policy design and evaluation, ground-breaking behaviour change programmes, and public opinion trends.

We build a better future through data, analytics, research, and evaluation.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Provide advice and direction to leaders and managers on recruitment best practises
- Write attractive job adverts and post the roles on the different job boards depending on the role and country requirements
- Work with local leaders and HR to build an attractive employee value proposition across the APAC region
- Constantly seek for opportunities to drive Talent Acquisition process improvements and work to implement them locally
- Partner with the country business leaders and managers to ensure high quality TA delivery, handle critical issues and provide hiring updates and metrics
- Contribute to & deliver agreed components of Kantar Public Global and Regional People Plan as required
- Ensure full utilisation of all TA tools to analyse, monitor and report hiring effectiveness while ensuring high data accuracy

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Proven experience as a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner across multiple geographies in a business that operates a complex matrix. Solid understanding of the Market Research and/or Consulting professional services industries
- Proven track record of hiring across APAC, especially in Singapore and Australia by partnering with the business in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated direct sourcing / head hunting capability
- Confident, lots of high energy, a positive ‘can do’ attitude and a willingness to “get things done”
- Well-organised and adept at effective prioritisation of multiple responsibilities
- Able to create deep, trusting partnerships
- Ability to be flexible and agile in approach to projects and work activities and to deal with the unexpected

What we offer

You will join an international leading company and be surrounded by passionate colleagues in an open and engaging environment, where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to thrive in a space where their wellbeing is taken into consideration.

We are committed to flexible working practice.

Location

Sydney, Hickson RoadAustralia

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.