Head, Talent Acquisition Japac Region

**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?**

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

**Head, Talent Acquisition JAPAC Region**

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

**Live**:
**What you will do**

**Your scope of responsibilities will include**:
**Talent Acquisition Service Excellence**:

- Analyze internal and external current TA practices to define areas for improvement and to ensure powerful TA practices within JAPAC.
- Build and implement a strategic service delivery plan that ensures Amgen attracts and hires best, diverse talent for its business needs in an efficient, cost effective and high-quality way
- Define and evaluate the right service measures of success that ensure quality decision making and continuous service improvement
- Partner with regional HR and Finance Leads on headcount management and resource planning
- Create resource and business plans to ensure high quality, impactful service delivery
- Serve as key member of Global TA Leadership team and JAPAC Regional Leadership team. Partner on defining and implementing global TA strategies
- Keep abreast of industry trends, innovates and ensures continuous service improvement
- Lead a service delivery model that includes internal recruiters, external agencies and an RPO model

**Team Leadership**:

- Provides guidance to Talent Acquisition Managers and Recruiters in the JAPAC region to ensure team performance is optimized and staff are fully engaged in Amgen’s mission, values and direction
- Create annual and multi-year plans to both assess and build the team’s capability to attract and hire best talent
- Ensures team’s growth and development of business/ role relevant capabilities

**Ensure Talent Readiness**:

- Partners with Talent Management to build and implement the infrastructure that ensures Amgen assesses and builds diverse talent pipelines for key roles & capabilities
- Leverages Talent Scouts, the TA team, TM and HR to build talent pipelines/pools
- Craft and implements an annual plan to ensure that hiring managers and HR stakeholders have the latest and most impactful knowledge and skills to hire the best talent for Amgen

**Win**:
**What we expect of you**
- Ability to manage a function including resource management and forecasting
- Demonstrated service management experience
- Mentoring and leading teams
- Expertise in dealing with client issues and problem solving
- High impact presentation skills
- Managing projects or service delivery across a matrixed organization
- Ability to use data to tell a story and manage a team/capability

**Basic qualifications**:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of Talent Acquisition experience

**Or**:
Master’s degree and 4 years of Talent Acquisition experience

**Or**:
Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Talent Acquisition experience

**Or**:
Associate’s degree and 10 years of Talent Acquisition experience

**Or**:
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Talent Acquisition experience

**Additional experiences/skills are required**:

- Fluency in English is a requirement
- 2+ years experience managing centralized Talent Acquisition services

**Preferred requirements**:

- MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Organisational design experience
- Demonstrated people management experience
- Highly organized through prioritizing multiple day to day tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to use market intelligence and other data sources to help define effective sourcing strategies
- Broader HR experience in HR Generalist or COE roles (e.g., HRBP or Talent Management)
- Previous experience working in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry ideal

**Thrive**:
**What you can expect of us**

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammate’s professional and personal growth and well-being.
- Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
- Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
- Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

Join Us

If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference