The Role The Talent Acquisition Director serves as a strategic business partner to executive leadership (C-suite and subsidiary CEOs), aligning the Group's long-term business objectives with a robust talent pipeline strategy. This role requires a unique blend of corporate strategic foresight, hands-on leadership for executive sourcing, and oversight of agile mass-hiring engines for extensive retail and manufacturing facilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Group Executives and Subsidiary Leadership to forecast future workforce capabilities, identifying talent gaps across the Brand, Retail, and Tech pillars.
- Design and execute localized and global sourcing strategies to attract high-caliber leadership, specialized tech talents, and operational experts.
- Manage and optimize the multi-million dollar annual talent acquisition budget, ensuring optimal ROI across channels.
- Lead, mentor, and upskill a high-performing team of TA Managers, Specialists, and Coordinators across different business lines.
- Foster a culture of speed, accountability, and customer-centricity within the recruitment team.
- Standardize best-in-class assessment frameworks, interview guidelines, and compliance standards across the entire Group.
- Accelerate the digital transformation of the recruitment function by optimizing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), AI-sourcing tools, and predictive data analytics.
- Establish and report on critical data metrics to the Board: Time-to-Fill, Quality-of-Hire, Cost-per-Hire, and Offer Acceptance Rates.
- Utilize competitive intelligence and talent mapping to advise line managers on shifting labor market dynamics, compensation benchmarks, and availability.
- Collaborate with Corporate Communications to elevate the Group's employer brand both domestically and internationally.
- Oversee high-impact early career pipelines and flagship graduate programs, including the Group's highly competitive Management Trainee and Graduate Engineer tracks.
- Build deep strategic partnerships with top-tier domestic and global universities, technical institutes, and alumni networks.
- Ensure a premium, seamless, and transparent interview experience for all candidates, reflecting the Group's core value of honoring talent.
- Refine the transition between the selection stage and the pre-onboarding stage to safeguard high retention rates from Day 1.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organization Development, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 10–12 years of progressive HR/Recruitment experience, with at least 5 years in a Head of TA or TA Director role overseeing large-scale organizations (conglomerates, FMCG, retail, tech, or hyper-growth matrices).
- Industry Knowledge: Proven track record managing both highly specialized corporate/tech recruitment and high-volume mass hiring requirements.
- Skills & Competencies: Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Exceptional ability to translate business data into actionable workforce strategies. Stakeholder Management: Executive presence with the gravitas to influence, challenge, and align with C-suite stakeholders. Agility & Resilience: Thrives in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial corporate environment.
- Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Exceptional ability to translate business data into actionable workforce strategies.
- Stakeholder Management: Executive presence with the gravitas to influence, challenge, and align with C-suite stakeholders.
- Agility & Resilience: Thrives in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial corporate environment.
- Languages: Native fluency in Vietnamese and professional mastery of English (written and verbal) are mandatory for executive-level collaboration.
- Competitive Compensation: Attractive base salary accompanied by performance bonuses tied directly to the Group's commercial success.
- Ecosystem Integration: The unique opportunity to work across diverse sectors including FMCG, Tech, FinTech, Retail, and Logistics under a single ecosystem.
- Executive Influence: Direct visibility and impact on the overarching leadership blueprint of one of Vietnam's most influential corporations.
- Comprehensive Care: Premium healthcare programs, executive wellness benefits, and highly customized leadership development paths.
Client Overview
This client is a behemoth of the Vietnamese private sector. Unlike multinational corporations operating in the country, this is a homegrown giant that has scaled aggressively through rapid organic growth and massive, high-profile mergers and acquisitions. They touch the lives of nearly every Vietnamese consumer daily, possessing deep, granular knowledge of local tastes and shopping habits. They are currently transitioning from a traditional FMCG manufacturer into an integrated, tech-enabled consumer ecosystem.
