Director, Head of Early Careers Asia Pacific

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

At Visa we take our talent very seriously. Developing Best Talent is at the heart of our corporate strategy and is the key foundation that underpins everything we do at Visa for our shareholders, the commerce ecosystem and our community.

Visa’s Asia Pacific Talent Acquisition team is accountable for the end to end hiring of people across the region whilst providing thought leadership and consultative direction to our business. We are a diverse team of managers, recruiters, coordinators and program managers dispersed across the region working in close collaboration with our business and community every day.

**What a Head of Early Careers does at Visa**:

- Sets and executes an early careers recruiting and programs strategy which has inclusion at its heart and finds the right balance between global consistency and regional nuances / business needs
- Lead, grow and develop a diverse team to achieve global and regional objectives, thrive in an innovative environment, and deliver bold and exceptional results
- Proactively deliver global and regional projects that positively impacts both our business and our TA team
- Represents Early Careers Asia Pacific within the global early careers leadership team to advocate for regional needs, collaborate on best practices, bring new ideas into the region and contribute to the evolution of the global early careers TA strategy
- Partner with our People Business Partners, Inclusion & Diversity, and Talent Management teams to deliver on an integrated talent agenda for our business
- Influence leaders and their long-term hiring plans to ensure that early career talent is considered to be fundamental to their workforce vision

**Why this is important to Visa**

Early careers talent is critical to the success of our business in the future. As the demographic of consumers in Asia Pacific and our workforce shifts to Gen Z and beyond, it’s critical to Visa to continue to foster multiple pathways to the company by attracting, hiring, and training diverse early careers talent.

**Projects you will be a part of**:

- Building critical business capability across Asia Pacific
- Expanding existing programs into new markets
- Developing and implementing new early careers programs

**Qualifications**:
**What you will need**:

- A strong track record of delivery in an early careers / graduate recruitment leadership role
- Experience leading a Talent Acquisition team delivering end to end recruiting
- A strong understanding of the early careers landscape in Asia Pacific, emerging talent trends, competitive market conditions and best-in-class early careers delivery strategies
- A consultative, strategic and solution-oriented approach to how you manage relationships with your stakeholders
- To be highly organised and structured in the way you approach your work
- A proven track record of hiring, coaching, and developing teams by setting ambitious objectives and providing clarity and support to reach the objectives together
- Experience creating and implementing standards for operational excellence and success implementing change within a recruiting function
- An ability to navigate ambiguity in a matrixed organization, build impactful key stakeholder relationships at all levels, especially senior level leaders

**What will also help**:

- Experience working in a large multi-national environment
- Tertiary education in a related field

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.