Head of Talent Acquisition, Asia

Location: Singapore, Singapore

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

**Reporting to the Head of HR, Asia, it has the following Key Responsibilities**:
**Leadership**:

- Develop, implement, communicate and drive Integrated Talent Acquisition Strategy including influencing key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to adopt new processes, tools and behaviours
- Lead and manage a Talent Acquisition team that is focused on hiring and mobilising top talents for all Businesses and Functions across Thales in Asia.
- Partner with relevant stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in the Quality, Speed and Cost of Hiring
- Influence key stakeholders to align expectations to the external marketplace

**Resource Planning**:

- Develop Talent pipelines in collaboration with the internal search team in key areas and present analysis of these efforts
- Encourage the reduction of expat hiring to an agreed KPI with HRD
- Drive local hiring and be a champion for diversity

**Early Careers**
- Work closely with the Education & Universities Development global COE to design effective Talent Acquisition Processes for Early Career (Graduate and Intern) hiring
- Set up and deliver an early career programme for Asia
- Establish university relationships in the region and define a consistent engagement plan and execution.

**Executive Talent Acquisition**
- Working with HR Business Partners and hiring managers to ensure quality, timeliness and cost of Senior Executive hires for Thales in Asia
- Be personally responsible for hands on delivery of Senior critical hires across the entire Talent Acquisition lifecycle from requirements definition, through sourcing and selection, to offer management and on boarding
- Coach the Talent Acquisition Team in search best practice and ensure its implementation throughout the function

**Selection**:

- Partnering with the rest of the HR Function, design and implement a consistent and effective selection strategy and process for Thales in Asia, including any relevant selection tools

**Employer Branding**:

- Work with the Group and Local Communications Teams to ensure a world class EVP and Thales employer brand is developed and implemented
- Ensure a multi-channel media campaign
- Ensure maximum ROI for Thales marketing spend in terms of brand awareness, roles filled and breadth & depth of pipelines

**Change Management & Continuous Improvement**:

- Champion and establish the new Talent Acquisition CoE, clearly define Hiring Managers' roles and set performance expectations
- Lead local implementation of Thales Group process improvement programmes as required
- Deliver formal and informal coaching to all levels of the organisation, from senior members of the Leadership Team to first time Hiring Managers
- Influence managers to change current practices and behaviours
- Demonstrate flexibility by managing or inputting into project work as required

**Job Specification**:

- Degree in any discipline
- Minimum 10 years of HR experience of which 5 years in Talent Acquisition in a team leadership role; preferably in technology industry
- Experience in a senior level role within a large, matrix organisation accountable for delivery of Talent Acquisition
- Personal powers of resilience and tenacity; takes personal responsibility for resolving performance issues before they impact on the business; consistently sees things through to completion
- Influence, flexible and with a strong drive to achieve desired outcomes in an environment of constant change, competing priorities and objectives
- Highly analytical, with the ability to interpret complex information, identify trends, create strategic action plans based on the information and gain sponsorship for these at domain board level.
- Able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of current organisation’s core business, organisation, strategic direction, challenges and aspirations, and articulate how Talent Acquisition can input and add value to these within assigned perimeter
- Lead, model, manage and coach the organisation in best practice selection techniques
- Must have in-house corporate Talent Acquisition experience