Vice President, Talent Acquisition

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Vice President, Talent Acquisition. Reporting to the SVP Talent Acquisition for International Markets, this role leads talent acquisition strategy for the Asia Pacific region, for all professional and Executive Level recruiting. As a VP Regional lead, you are responsible for leading a team of circa 14 Recruiters who are responsible for attracting top talent to fuel Mastercard’s growth across 18 countries. You will work together with both our regional LT and Global TA leads to deliver Innovative and Inclusive hiring solutions to support the delivery of Mastercard’s growth goals across AP.

• Aligns talent acquisition strategies with Mastercard’s talent agenda
• Accountable for designing, planning and coordinating talent acquisition efforts; ensures the talent acquisition programs are scalable to support local, regional and global activities
• Acts as consultants to the business on a wide variety of talent acquisition strategies, programs and processes
• These include talent planning, recruiting, assessment, candidate sourcing, market research and employment branding

• Oversees development of short and long-term talent acquisition strategies supporting large and highly complex global business units and regions
• Oversees cross-functional interactions among internal stakeholders (e.g., business leaders) and external talent acquisition partners (e.g., vendors) to develop strategies to address talent needs for large and highly complex global business units and regions
• Responsible for talent acquisition process and systems management
• Directs and provides thought leadership surrounding the design, launch and delivery of talent acquisition programs and diversity goals (e.g. branding and marketing, workforce segmentation projects)
• Reviews data and assesses external labor market, the competitive talent environment and Mastercard business objectives to forecast talent supply and needs, prioritize high-level objectives, and communicate observations, insights, and best practices to business units and regional leaders
• Develops and maintains internal and external stakeholder relationships, including senior function leaders and vendors
• Manages one or more teams, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, coaches, and develops employees as an organizational resource
• Develops and maintains internal and external stakeholder relationships, including senior function leaders, university talent acquisition contacts, and vendor leaders

• Successfully developed and implemented global talent acquisition strategies that balance internal business demands and conditions of the external labor market
• Successful track record in achieving strategic talent acquisition goals for the enterprise/business units in a fast-paced and high volume, matrixed environment (to carry across all levels)
• Experience enhancing talent acquisition programs/processes based on relevant best practices, external trends and leveraging advanced analytics
• Proven track record handling external relationships (i.e. vendors, agencies, branding partners)
• Successfully managed contracts and consistently delivered beneficial negotiation results

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.