Provides leadership to the talent acquisition team developing their capabilities and competencies. Partner with Director Talent Acquisition (TA) to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as a strategic recruiting partner to HR leadership within adidas Commercial Southeast Asia for all supporting functions.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead point of contact for Talent Acquisition across Commercial functions in Southeast Asia,
• Drive team development through appropriate coaching and managerial processes.
• Ensure the effective implementation and adoption of all TA processes and programs across Corporate and Retail functions.
• Responsible for the high volume retail hiring across Southeast Asia.
• Develop powerful recruiting and employer branding strategies by leveraging key partners within the organization.
• Manage senior business relationships to ensure alignment of talent needs, solve problems and develop new strategies that support the overall effectiveness of recruitment.
• Drive strategic planning and quarterly review meetings with functional/market senior leadership to understand trends as well as current and upcoming talent requirements in order to build a strategy to support overall recruitment effectiveness across Corporate and Retail functions.
• Coach and influence senior management (business and HR) to gain alignment on all aspects of talent acquisition including candidate collaboration, resource allocation and funding requirements.
• Champion global recruiting initiatives and lead change efforts to ensure harmonized implementation of strategies, standards and processes across all areas of support.
• Ensure a strong knowledge of adidas Group Functions, Markets and teams to be able to understand current and future talent requirements and build strategies to support these areas.
• Partner with overall TA organization and encourage direct reports to drive a collaborative approach to recruiting and driving best practices, including collaboration across whole of Global Sourcing, Global Functions and Commercial Southeast Asia,
• Utilizes data, trends and customer information to gather insights to drive appropriate candidate generation and talent pool strategies.
• Owns responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.

Key Relationships

• HR Managers
• Business Leaders
• Regional and Global Talent Acquisition Team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage change, problem solve and influence hiring behaviour.
• Ability to set clear goals and deliver into key objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to work with all levels of leadership.
• Ability to work on local, national and international searches.
• Strong level of expertise within the market(s) you are responsible for and across multiple functions.
• Demonstrated people management skills and the ability to lead people towards achieving objectives.
• Strong project management skills.
• Proven performance achieving goals and standards.

Experience Requirements

• University Degree in HR, Business or related field and minimum of 10 years’ experience in recruiting (agency and in-house).
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in people management and leading teams by creating a high-performance environment build around creativity and empowerment.
• knowledge of the footwear, apparel, retail industry will be an advantage.
• Track record of success driving a holistic recruitment strategy (needs assessment, planning, execution and embedding) for multiple functions and/or markets.
• Strong stakeholder management and stakeholder engagement experience including influencing senior leaders.
• Demonstrate a strong mind-set and results related to experience with a specific focus on candidates, managers and recruiters.
• Ability to work independently to achieve key objectives and make critical decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills including the ability to set clear goals, involve others in decision making and building productive relationships.
• Demonstrates a high level of confidence by setting high expectations for personal and team performance, the self-awareness and desire to learn and grow as a leader and the ability inspire and empower others to deliver and contribute.
• Puts effort into their own and others personal and professional growth.
• Uses recognition and celebration to energize and inspire others.
• Consistently seeks new and innovative solutions, creates an environment that fosters creativity and risk taking and has the ability to turn ideas into actions.
• Encourages curiosity and active exploration of new ideas and opportunities.
• Uses a test and learn approach and allows for failure in pursuit of knowledge.
• Pushes boundaries and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates and environment that encourages creativity.