Talent Acquisition Lead, SEA
Petaling Jaya - Malaysia
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Otis Elevator Company (M) Sdn Bhd 15-01 Menara Symphony No 5 Jalan Semangat SeksyenPetaling Jaya Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia- Lead end-to-end recruitment activities across Southeast Asia ensuring the delivery of critical technical sales field corporate and leadership hiring requirements.
- Manage multiple requisitions and hiring priorities across countries while providing regular updates and hiring recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Lead coach and develop the Southeast Asia TA team including direct reports and recruitment contractors ensuring effective workload allocation and accountability.
- Drive recruiter performance through hiring reviews sourcing strategies and continuous capability development.
- Ensure timely intake discussions interview coordination offer management candidate dispositioning and requisition closure are managed effectively by the team.
- Monitor hiring progress and proactively address recruitment risks bottlenecks and aging requisitions.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and HR teams on talent acquisition strategies market conditions talent availability compensation competitiveness and hiring feasibility.
- Conduct regular hiring reviews with business leaders to provide updates on pipelines challenges risks and action plans.
- Partner with HRBPs and hiring managers to support workforce planning discussions through talent market intelligence and hiring recommendations.
- Influence stakeholders to adopt efficient hiring practices timely interview feedback and strong candidate management.
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies and talent pipelines for critical and recurring hiring needs across the region.
- Leverage multiple sourcing channels including direct sourcing referrals talent communities agencies LinkedIn and external networks.
- Drive candidate engagement initiatives to improve offer acceptance rates and reduce offer declines and drop-offs.
- Support employer branding campus hiring and targeted talent attraction initiatives aligned with business requirements.
- Manage agency partnerships across Southeast Asia to improve candidate quality speed of delivery and market coverage.
- Monitor agency performance through agreed service levels quality standards and hiring outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to optimize sourcing channels and improve recruitment effectiveness across the region.
- Ensure compliance with recruitment processes hiring policies and governance standards.
- Drive data accuracy and process discipline within recruitment systems including Workday Avature and other recruitment platforms.
- Monitor recruitment metrics including hiring volumes aging requisitions time-to-fill pipeline health offer acceptance and recruiter productivity.
- Prepare and present hiring insights trends and recommendations to HR and business leadership.
- Identify and enforce process improvements to enhance recruitment quality efficiency and candidate experience.
- Bachelors Degree in Human Resources Business Administration Psychology or related discipline.
- 812 years of Talent Acquisition experience including experience recruiting across multiple Southeast Asian countries.
- Proven experience hiring for sales engineering technical field operations corporate and leadership roles.
- Experience leading and developing Talent Acquisition teams within a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence senior leaders and hiring managers.
- Strong knowledge of Southeast Asia talent markets recruitment trends and sourcing strategies.
- Experience using ATS platforms such as Workday Avature SuccessFactors or similar systems.
- Strong analytical communication presentation and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities stakeholders and hiring demands simultaneously.
- Experience within industrial engineering manufacturing construction service or multinational organizations.
- Experience operating within a regional and matrixed environment.
- Experience managing recruitment agencies and external sourcing partners.
- Strong understanding of recruitment analytics process improvement and recruitment governance.
- Exposure to employer branding campus hiring and workforce planning initiatives.
- Talent Acquisition Leadership
- Stakeholder Management & Influencing
- Recruitment Delivery Excellence
- Talent Market Intelligence
- Team Leadership & Coaching
- Candidate Assessment & Selection
- Data Analytics & Recruitment Insights
- Process Improvement & Governance
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Agility Ownership & Accountability
If you live in a city chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day.
Otis is the worlds leading elevator and escalator manufacturing installation and service company. We move 2.4 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.4 million customer units worldwide the industrys largest Service portfolio.
You may recognize our products in some of the worlds most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower Empire State Building Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 72000 people strong including engineers digital technology experts sales and functional specialists as well as factory and field technicians all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving high-performance company.
When you join Otis you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. Youll belong to a diverse trusted and caring community where your contributions and the skills and capabilities youll gain working alongside the best and brightest keep us connected and on the cutting edge.
We provide opportunities training and resources that build leadership and capabilities in Sales Field Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.
Today our focus more than ever is on people. As a global people-powered company we put people passengers customers and colleagues at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes prioritizing Safety Ethics Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental social and governance (ESG) at Otis click here.
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Otis is a leading manufacturer and maintainer of Elevators, Escalators, Moving Walkways with world class modernization tools & service packages for buildings