Our client is a global consumer health group with more than 50 years of history, operating in over 100 countries across FMCG and B2B industrial chemicals. A new leadership team is driving a full business transformation over the next five years and beyond.
This role owns talent acquisition and learning across the group’s entire Japan organisation — both the consumer and industrial businesses — covering mid-career and new graduate hiring. It is a build mandate: move TA from a traditional, administrative model to global-standard practice.
The role
Reporting to the HR Director Japan and leading a team of two.
- Build the recruitment strategy for both the Consumer and Industrial business units
- Transform TA from a traditional model to a global-standard COE approach, and lift direct sourcing to 70% of professional hires
- Rebuild full-cycle recruitment across leadership, professional, technical and new graduate hiring
- Own agency management, direct channel strategy, alumni networks and talent pipelining
- Evaluate and build TA infrastructure, including RPO models and ATS
- Create and execute a new employer branding strategy
- Lead and monitor TA KPIs
- Review and upgrade the learning and development offering, focused on people-manager capability and leadership development
What we are looking for
- Around 10 years in talent acquisition at global companies, with genuine depth in direct sourcing
- Experience across both professional/mid-career and new graduate recruitment
- Team leadership experience, or a strong individual contributor ready to step up to leading a small team
- Openness to taking on learning and development. Deep L&D expertise is not required; curiosity and learning agility are
- Excellent Japanese and business-level English
- Hands-on, and willing to lead by example
- FMCG, manufacturing or B2B industrial exposure is an advantage
- Employer branding, RPO or ATS implementation experience is an advantage
Location
Osaka. Hybrid working. Kansai-based candidates preferred and relocation is supported.
Candidates unable to relocate may be considered on the basis of 2–3 days per week in Osaka.