The Role

This is a high-stakes, board-visible executive mandate within a Top-tier Domestic Consumer Group. As the Head of Talent Management, you are the chief architect of our enterprise talent density. You will not be executing standard HR operations; you will be safeguarding the future of the conglomerate by building a robust, high-performance leadership pipeline capable of driving our massive ecosystem integration. Navigating a highly complex workforce of tens of thousands—spanning FMCG factories, thousands of retail stores, and agile digital tech hubs—your mandate is to identify, cultivate, and deploy top-tier talent to power our aggressive multi-billion-dollar growth strategy.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Unprecedented Complexity & Scale: You will orchestrate talent strategies across radically different business units—from legacy manufacturing and heavy agriculture to modern retail and cutting-edge tech startups—creating a cohesive talent ecosystem.
• M&A Cultural Integration: This conglomerate grows heavily through acquisitions. You will be at the forefront of post-merger integration, assessing incoming leadership teams and harmonizing disparate corporate cultures into a unified, high-performance machine.
• Board-Level Strategic Impact: You will have direct exposure to the founders and the C-suite. Your succession planning and leadership development blueprints will directly dictate who steers the company’s most critical commercial pillars over the next decade.
• Pioneer an Ecosystem Mindset: You will lead the charge in breaking down traditional business silos, facilitating the cross-pollination of elite talent between the manufacturing, retail, and digital arms to accelerate our "All-in-One" consumer strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Enterprise Talent Blueprinting: Design and execute a holistic, multi-year Talent Management strategy that aggressively elevates talent density at the Director, VP, and C-levels across all subsidiaries.
• Executive Succession & Hi-Po Orchestration: Build a bulletproof succession pipeline for critical management board roles. Identify High-Potential (Hi-Po) leaders early and design ruthless, accelerated development tracks, including rotational assignments across different business pillars.
• Performance-Driven Architecture: Partner with the Head of HR to deeply embed a true meritocracy. Implement rigorous talent calibration, continuous performance management frameworks, and strategic offboarding to ensure we retain only top-quartile performers.
• Leadership Academy & Capability Building: Architect bespoke, world-class leadership development academies tailored to our unique, hyper-agile corporate DNA. Equip leaders with the commercial and digital fluency required to manage complex ecosystem synergies.
• Organizational Agility & Change: Act as a strategic advisor to business heads during rapid organizational scaling or restructuring, ensuring we have the right talent capabilities deployed to the highest-priority commercial battlegrounds at a moment's notice.

What We’re Looking For

• Executive Talent Pedigree: 12-15+ years of progressive HR leadership with a dedicated, deep specialization in Talent Management, Organizational Development, or Leadership Assessment at an enterprise level.
• The "MNC / Local Conglomerate" Hybrid: You possess the structural frameworks, sophisticated talent methodologies, and governance of a tier-1 multinational corporation, combined with the extreme resilience, speed, and pragmatism required to survive in a visionary, founder-led domestic empire.
• M&A and Integration Savvy: A proven track record of assessing and integrating executive talent during large-scale corporate mergers, acquisitions, or massive structural transformations.
• Commercial Acumen & Influence: You speak the language of business, not just HR theory. You understand how talent capabilities directly impact P&L, market share, and operational efficiency, and you possess the gravitas to push back, advise, and influence fiercely demanding C-level stakeholders.
• Relentless Agility: You thrive in ambiguity and high-pressure environments. You can design a long-term strategic vision but are perfectly comfortable executing rapid, tactical pivots as the business demands.

Client Overview

This client is a behemoth of the Vietnamese private sector and one of the most dynamic conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Growing aggressively through both organic expansion and highly strategic mega-M&As, they touch the lives of nearly every Vietnamese consumer daily. They are currently executing a massive transformation from a traditional manufacturing and retail group into a fully integrated, tech-enabled offline-to-online (O2O) consumer ecosystem. Their guiding "Point of Life" strategy aims to consolidate essential daily needs—groceries, financial services, telecom, and healthcare—under one unified physical and digital platform. Operating with the relentless speed of a startup but the financial muscle of a multi-billion-dollar empire, they require agile, visionary leaders who can thrive in a hyper-fast, highly demanding environment.