About the role
AI summarisedThe Senior Manager, APAC Recruiting Lead at Avanade oversees end-to-end recruitment strategy across Southeast Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Japan, and India, partnering with senior executives to scale hiring and drive business growth. This role involves designing recruiting strategies, optimizing the recruitment lifecycle, championing employer brand, leading a dispersed team, and using data-driven metrics to improve outcomes.
BusinessFull-timeInternal Functions
Key Responsibilities
- Design and drive APAC-wide recruiting strategies that enable business growth, support diverse market needs, and deliver a high-performing, scalable hiring engine.
- Partner closely with regional and market unit leaders to understand talent priorities and influence workforce planning and strategic talent decisions.
- Enhance and optimize the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience from first touch through onboarding.
- Champion Avanade's employer brand across APAC markets and ensure our value proposition is recognized globally as a top employer in the technology and consulting space.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a geographically dispersed recruiting team, fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Establish data-driven metrics and performance frameworks to measure effectiveness, identify opportunities, and continually improve recruiting outcomes.
- Manage recruiting budgets and operational plans, ensuring resources are used strategically and efficiently to support hiring needs.
- Travel as needed to partner with market leaders, support teams, and engage with regional stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive recruitment or talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years leading recruiting teams in large, matrixed, or multinational organizations.
- Experience overseeing full-cycle recruiting across APAC or other diverse, multi-country regions.
- Demonstrated expertise driving high-volume, high-complexity hiring, particularly within technology, consulting, or professional services industries.
- Proven ability to partner with senior executives, influence decision-making, and translate business needs into actionable talent strategies.
- Strong understanding of APAC labor markets, hiring trends, and employment regulations.
- Track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams, ideally across time zones and virtual environments.
- Comfort working in highly dynamic, high-growth environments, with the ability to adapt quickly and lead change.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and analytical skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Ability to travel, as required.