Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition

Senior Specialist TalentAcquisition

• Scale shared service hiring. Drive regional talent impact across APAC

• Shape regional hiring impact from Malaysia partnering across APAC to deliver critical talent for business growth.

• Drive niche hiring talent strategy and future-ready recruitment initiatives in a high-impact regional TA role.

The Opportunity

In this role you will be theregionalTalent AcquisitionAdvisorbased in Malaysia supporting hiring priorities across selected markets in Asia Pacific.Youwill partner closely with theRegional Talent Acquisition team senior business stakeholders HR partners and RPO partners to deliver business-critical hiring volume recruitment support and talent acquisition initiatives that enable the business to be talent-ready for the future.

We are not specific to a particular sector or industry; however prior experience in anMNC environmentand experience inbuilding or supporting a shared service/supportcentrerecruitment modelwill be a strong advantage.

What You Will Do

• Partner with senior business leaders HR partners and the regional Talent Acquisition team to understand current and future hiring needs across assigned APAC markets.

• Bring prior experience or strong capability in supporting the recruitment setup for asupportcenter/shared services hub including hiring ramp-up stakeholder education process creation and recruiting governance.

• Lead and managebusiness-critical niche hiringacross selected Asia Pacific markets ensuring strong market mapping candidate engagement stakeholder alignment and timely delivery.

• Support day-to-day recruitment delivery in partnership with RPO partners especially for volume hiring ensuring strong execution quality of candidate slate process discipline and timely follow-through.

• Support the continuous improvement of recruitment processes tools systems and ways of working aligned with regional and global Talent Acquisition guidelines.

• Use recruitment data market insights and key hiring metrics to support decision-making track progress and improve hiring outcomes.

• Partner on employer branding and talent attraction activities to position the organization as an employer of choice in the region.
  

What You Must Have:

• Bachelors degree required; Around 8-10years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment / HR.

• Strong experience managing end-to-end recruitment including stakeholder management sourcing strategy candidate engagement interview process management and offer support.

• Experience inbusiness-critical niche or specialist hiringacross one or more markets.Prior experience in anMNC environmentwill be a strong advantage.

• Experience supporting the recruitment build-out of ashared servicecenter supportcenter regional hub or large hiring ramp-upwill be highly preferred.

• Strong understanding of recruitment processes TA tools market mapping sourcing channels and hiring metrics.Comfortable working in a matrixed regional environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

• FluentinEnglish;good communication and influencing skills are a must to be successful in this role.

Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co. Inc. Rahway New Jersey USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the worlds most challenging diseases. Today our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy creativity digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving so if you are among the intellectually curious join usand start making your impact today.