Job Description

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Your Work Shapes the World Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. Position Summary: The Talent Acquisition Manager, Asia Pacific is responsible for leading recruiting process & execution across management & support positions for multiple business units across Caterpillar in the region. This role will have direct oversight for a growing team of recruiters & talent acquisition coordinators, and will be will be accountable for providing strategic talent acquisition advisory and leadership for the for Caterpillar in key growth markets across the Asia Pacific region, with prioritized focus in India and Singapore. The position will be tasked with fostering key relationships and partnerships with HR and Business Leaders across the enterprise and will be responsible for providing Talent Acquisition excellence and strategic partnership to elevate the greater TA function at Caterpillar. J ob Duties/Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Oversee & manage the total Talent Acquisition process, strategy & execution across a variety of Caterpillar business units throughout the Asia Pacific region. Effectively lead a team of recruiters and coordinators to drive best practices around the recruiting process and deliver top talent to meet key business needs, establishing strategic partnerships to elevate hiring manager and candidate satisfaction throughout the process.
• Educate and train hiring managers and leaders on recruiting best practices, interviewing techniques, conducting reference checks, candidate selection, compensation considerations, and employee onboarding. Work collaboratively with regional hiring leaders and HR Business Partners to develop and maintain strategic partnerships to enable recruiting success.
• Maintain and enhance measures of success across the Talent Acquisition team to drive consistent and repeatable hiring results. Manage team performance and identify & develop training plans to build and reinforce recruiter capabilities and best practices.
• Assess recruiting analytics and hiring metrics to provide key business updates, stakeholder reviews and service level evaluations to ensure execution across key business objectives. Partner effectively with HR leadership & TA leadership to ensure clear messaging on hiring success and opportunities across the global business division.
• Partner with peers teams across business segments, geographical regions and central resource teams (Talent Acquisition, Employer Brand, Organizational Development, Compliance, Legal and others) to serve as a subject matter expert and advise best practices to enhance enterprise hiring processes across the Asia Pacific region.
• Ensure regional recruiting resources are utilized effectively by managing priorities and allocating resources where necessary.
• Liaise with customer organizations to understand their needs and ensure recruiting organization is providing required services and maintaining internal client satisfaction.
• Collaborate with HR Leadership and Asia Pacific Region Business Leaders to conduct workforce planning and ensure alignment between global strategy and division recruiting targets.

Basic Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Work Experience : 10+ years experience in Talent Acquisition or related field. 2+ years experience managing recruiters strongly preferred.
• Experience delivering active and passive recruiting strategies and processes that meet evolving business needs. Experience leading Diversity hiring projects/initiatives preferred.
• Prior experience leading high growth recruiting programs in Asia Pacific region strongly preferred.
• Relationship Building: Ability to collaborate other areas of HR/Talent Management Teams to support business needs.
• People/Resource Management: Demonstrated ability to lead regional/virtual team of resources. Prior experience managing local and remote recruiting teams preferred. Ability to manage and develop a mix of both experienced and junior TA resources highly preferred.
• Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal presentation skills. Fluency in English required.
• Business Acumen: Preferred experience interacting and presenting to senior business & HR leadership. Ability to comprehend and contribute to business discussions as it relates to talent acquisition across a defined business division or functional area. Prior experience supporting technology or engineering recruiting efforts organizations strongly preferred.

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