Talent Acquisition Manager

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Manager

Job Title Supervisor: Head of Talent Acquisition

Functional Area: Human Resources

Country: Japan

Site: Tokyo (Osaki Office)

Basic Purpose of the Job:

As a Talent Acquisition Manager, responsible for the full life cycle recruitment activities for experienced and new graduate across the three legal entities of Boehringer Ingelheim in Japan, with a strong focus on recruitment marketing and candidate engagement. Partnering directly with business leaders and key stake holders, shape the talent acquisition strategy, provide relevant market insights while ensuring high level of hiring manager and candidate experience.

Accountabilities:

• Closely partnering with senior business and HR stakeholders to ensure talent acquisition plans and deliverables are aligned with business strategies and needs
• Manage the full life cycle recruitment, from sourcing, candidate assessment, offer to pre-boarding
• Identify and source directly to attract and build strong candidate pipelines needed for business growth by utilizing traditional and unique sourcing tools, driving employee referrals, career events, and networking 
• Leverage industry leading practices to design and continuously improve the operating process that are globally and locally relevant to ensure the speed and quality
• Develop and execute targeted recruitment marketing campaigns aligned with hiring priorities, tailoring messaging and channels to different talent audiences and leveraging external networks to amplify an authentic employer brand consistent with corporate brand positioning and strategy
• Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of recruiting strategies and make data driven decisions
• Plan, ensure and maintain the competitiveness in recruiting cost
• Guide hiring managers to develop skills in structured interviewing, assessing candidates against job requirements and ensuring fair and inclusive recruitment process overall
• Manage the relationship with third party recruitment agencies and other vendors
• Participate and contribute to global TA community’s key initiatives and/or projects

Interfaces:

Internal stake holders

• Cross functional local/global senior leaders as hiring manager and line manager
• HR Leaders and Corporate Affairs for the talent strategy, employer branding and HR communications

External stake holders

• Candidates
• Search partners, job boards, recruitment tool vendors, RPO vendor
• Career center of target universities for new graduate/early talent recruitment
• Local government employment offices

Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Required Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated talent acquisition experience in multinational corporation ideally or equivalent experience in recruitment agency setting
• Prior professional work experience in Japan is required, with a strong understanding of the Japanese recruitment market and local business practices
• Demonstrated abilities in managing large volume hiring
• Experience in working with and managing senior level stakeholders
• Experience in talent acquisition strategy development
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in planning, executing and evaluating recruitment marketing or employer-branding campaigns
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Analytical and able to handle complexity and ambiguity
• Result driven and forward looking
• Familiar with ATS tools, SuccessFactors experience is a strong plus
• Computer skills (MS word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Language Skills

Japanese – Native/Fluent level in reading, writing and speaking

English – Fluent in reading, writing and speaking