Regional Senior Talent Acquisition & Onboarding Manager (Malaysia)

About Us

Flywheel SEA (formerly known as Intrepid Group)

Flywheel SEA (www.intrepid.asia), an Ascential company (https://www.ascential.com/), is a leading regional Digital Commerce Services Provider in South East Asia (SEA). We offer end-to-end omni-channel Digital Commerce management, a wide range of Digital Marketing Services and advanced Insights & Analytics, all powered by state of the art inhouse Technology to our client base of leading international brands across >10 marketplaces and multiple social platforms in all 6 SEA countries. Brands love our regional presence, our excellent pro-active digital commerce service which is enabled by our strong team, and our advanced marketing and tech capabilities.

Ascential Group

Flywheel SEA is proud to be a part of Ascential Digital Commerce (https://www.ascential.com), a global leader in information, analytics and digital commerce optimization. Ascential delivers specialist information, analytics and digital commerce optimisation platforms to the worlds leading consumer brands and their ecosystems. Ascential’s world-class businesses improve performance and solve problems for our customers by delivering immediately actionable information combined with visionary longer-term thinking across Digital Commerce, Product Design and Marketing.

Flywheel SEA delivers omnichannel digital commerce services in SEA, powered by other Ascential Digital Commerce brands, including Yimian (https://www.yimian.io/) for Measurement and Benchmarking and Edge (https://www.ascentialedge.com/) for Advisory. Together with its North America (NAM) counterpart Flywheel (https://www.flywheeldigital.com/), Flywheel SEA forms part of a unified, one-stop global digital commerce solution for our international clients.

With more than 2,000 employees across five continents, Ascential combines local expertise with a global footprint for clients in over 120 countries. Ascential is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Regional Senior Talent Acquisition & Onboarding Manager to lead the recruitment and onboarding function and help the Intrepid bring in top talents in a timely, efficient & cost-effective manner while promoting diverse & inclusive hiring practices. Critically, the incumbent will spearhead executive recruitment to manage senior management and niche, critical roles to fuel the business’s growth across our 3 business pillars and beyond. The role will also be leading the charge for various employer branding and recruitment related initiatives. This is a regional role which can be placed in any of the 3 following countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia), and will be reporting to our Chief People Officer.

Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Identifying the organisation’s needs and working to create and implement an efficient and effective talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment outcomes and business performance
• Developing, managing and maintaining a highly-skilled team to assist with end-to-end talent acquisition
• Identify and develop strategic pipelining needs
• Understanding workforce planning and resource forecasting by working with the various stakeholders to feed into recruitment timelines and budgets
• Benchmark salary, benefits and compile and share any trends in recruitment and markets which could impact the business
• Developing, retaining and engaging a diverse talent acquisition team, updating organisation structure and ways of work (team is distributed across SEA)
• Partnering with Group talent acquisition team for shared use of tools and resources
• Implementing and keeping track of key recruitment metrics (i.e time-to-hire, cost-to-hire)
• Managing and delivering reports and data when required
• Manage end-to-end recruitment for critical management roles

Who we look for - the ideal profile:

• 8+ years of experience as a Senior Manager with experience working across multiple SEA locations
• Strong experience with full life cycle recruitment
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Experience in managing a diverse recruitment team with a strong understanding of talent acquisition
• Has an excellent track record mapping, hunting and filling executive/management talent across digital commerce, marketing, tech and major commercial and support functions in a start up or scale-up environment
• Ability to be strategic and tactical when making decisions
• Interpersonal and motivational skills; you should be capable of building relationships across the organisation.
• Analytical and capable of reading data and reports to assess complex information
• Strong communication skills and fluent English
• Strong network in E-commerce and Marketing
• Bonus: network and experience in Tech recruitment

Benefits

• Excellent and competitive compensation package
• Professional and open international working environment – culturally integrating the best of all cultures to take the best of each and ensure we build an energetic, commercial, and fun working atmosphere.
• You are one of the pioneers of a new and cutting edge Intrepid product underpinned by strong tech. You have a key position in the Intrepid Insights team working on a unique product solving complex data challenges.
• Ample opportunity for personal and professional development, both on the job and through regular training (Ecommerce topics, technical skills, soft skills and leadership training) made available on our proprietary learning platform Intrepid University
• You will work with many brilliant co-workers who are movers and shakers of the industry, as well as with leading brand and ecosystem partners across all categories to shape their presence across all ecommerce platforms in the years to come, and will have a broad view on the latest developments in the South East Asian e-commerce ecosystem

Note: we will not be accepting any unsolicited resumes or CVs from headhunting or recruitment agencies at this point. Any CVs or profiles shared with us will not be entertained, and in the event of dispute, Intrepid will not be liable for any material compensation to third parties