Talent Acquisition Manager (APAC)

Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab's cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.

Talent Acquisition Manager

As a Talent Acquisition Manager, you will be pivotal in strengthening and managing Maker Lab's hiring processes across APAC. You'll provide strategic talent advisory within an ever-evolving business setting. You're a self-starter who can establish relationships and partnerships, talent management strategies and frameworks to identify talent, build a strong talent pipeline and drive organisational success. In addition to the above responsibilities, stakeholder management is a core part of the role. 

Passion for recruitment and talent engagement, coupled with a few years of experience recruiting across Marketing, Social Media, Events, Creative, Content and Insights roles, is paramount. 

Role:

• Take full ownership with limited supervision of the end-to-end hiring processes and talent experiences. 
• Design, plan, and execute selection processes for hiring across the region.
• Identify bottlenecks in the recruiting flows and execute short and long-term solutions.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and determine the company's talent through project briefings. Analyse hiring needs and support hiring forecasts, including talent-related market research and benchmarks.
• Hiring interactive marketers, creatives, events specialists, content strategists, social media experts, creative technologists and others who build a bridge between creativity, content and technology.
• Use key recruitment marketing tools and methods(phone interviewing, video interviewing) to find and secure talent qualified for current and upcoming roles. 
• Improve recruiting KPIs; create and present related reports.
• Writing job descriptions to attract talents and clearly depict roles and responsibilities while posting these advertisements on market-specific and relevant job portals.
• Offer management - able to successfully understand and offer talents competitive remuneration packages, and work alongside Talent Operations on the administration needed for contracts.
• Research and advise on relevant labour policies, employment legislations and their applications to ensure compliance at all times.
• Help onboard employees as brand ambassadors as part of the formation of a talent network, internal and external.

You:

• At least 7+ years of experience as a Recruitment Consultant / Recruiter in-house at a marketing/advertising / digital agency or within a recruitment consultancy or prior experience in Talent Acquisition.
• Experience recruiting for the region or globally is a highly desirable
• Proven network of marketing and creative talent in APAC. 
• Fully dedicated to ensuring a positive talent experience through all stages of recruitment. 
• Strong knowledge of hiring practices and a decent understanding of regional HR-related regulations.
• Excellent interviewing skills with the ability to ask competency-based questions and shortlist candidates for second-round interviews 
• A sense of ownership and pride in your own performance and its impact on the company's success.
• A positive mindset with impeccable influencing and consulting skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Critical thinker with problem-solving skills, requiring little supervision.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles!