Job Description Summary

Regional Talent Acquisition Leader – APAC leads with high care and high standards, building a deeply engaged, high‑performing team committed to delivering exceptional client experiences and strong business outcomes that support enterprise growth across the region.

This leader will navigate complexity and change while cultivating trusted partnerships with HR Business Partners, business and functional leaders, and diverse recruitment communities. They model inclusive leadership, ensuring other’s voices are heard and valued, and foster seamless collaboration across the Talent Acquisition (TA) function.

This leader creates an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and inspired to do their best work. Through curiosity and a desire for continuous improvement, they seek better ways of working—leading strategic initiatives that strengthen recruitment capabilities, improve scalability, and deliver consistent, high‑quality execution aligned to evolving business priorities.

This role is pivotal in advancing the organization’s long‑term Talent Acquisition transformation. The leader brings the courage to challenge legacy practices, the discipline to execute with excellence, and the care to lead people through change with empathy and clarity—leveraging best practices, innovative tools, and technology to deliver lasting impact.

As a key member of the global Talent Acquisition leadership team, the Executive, Regional Talent Acquisition Leader – APAC plays an influential role in shaping global TA policies, governance, and initiatives, helping define the future of talent acquisition across the enterprise.

Job Description

Essential responsibilities:

• Lead Talent Acquisition Strategy: Oversee the planning, development, and execution of the entire talent acquisition process for the region, ensuring alignment with business needs and organizational goals.
• Influence Global TA Strategy: Contribute to regional and global TA strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and consistent execution across geographies.
• Build and Lead a High‑Performing Team: Recruit, develop, and lead a customer‑focused team of TA Managers and professionals who are proactive, business‑savvy, inclusive, and committed to delivering results.
• Lead a Distributed, Diverse Team: Manage a remote, geographically dispersed team across multiple sites, states, countries and cultures, fostering engagement, connection, and consistency while respecting local nuance.
• Create a Culture of High Care and High Performance: Inspire passion, continuous learning, and professional growth while setting clear expectations and standards for excellence.
• Design Recruitment Strategies: Develop and implement recruitment strategies that reflect GE Vernova’s culture, respond to external labor market dynamics, and apply best practices to attract the right talent, at the right time, in the right places.
• Attract and Source Diverse Talent: Partner with Talent Attraction to design innovative, inclusive sourcing strategies that build strong pipelines and increase the diversity of candidate slates.
• Leverage Data and Curiosity: Use labor market intelligence, internal data, and business insights to ask the right questions, anticipate challenges, and make informed short‑ and long‑term talent decisions.
• Monitor and Improve Performance: Track and analyze TA metrics, proactively identifying risks and opportunities and acting with agility before business impact occurs.
• Engage HR and Senior Leaders: Build trusted, transparent relationships with HR and senior leaders across the region, demonstrating curiosity to understand business needs and courage to provide honest, data‑driven insights that inform recruitment strategies.
• Provide Expert Guidance: Advise leaders on recruitment processes, technologies, policies, and market trends to continuously improve hiring outcomes and experiences.
• Influence Talent Initiatives: Actively influence talent initiatives, such as organizational restructures, ramps, and surge hiring, to ensure talent acquisition aligns with wider business changes.
• Foster Cross-Regional Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders in other regions to ensure consistent practices and outcomes across the organization.
• Manage External Partnerships: Oversee relationships with recruitment agencies and external partners to deliver high‑quality, cost‑effective, and value-aligned hiring solutions.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Continuously refine processes, tools, and ways of working to improve efficiency, candidate experience, and improve outcomes.
• Stay Updated on Trends and Compliance: Keep abreast of changing employment laws, trends, and policies that impact the recruitment function, ensuring compliance and best practices in recruitment operations.

Experience/Skills required:

• 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including 5+ years in leadership roles leading remote or geographically dispersed teams across the APAC region.
• A demonstrated passion for people, inclusion, and building engaged, high‑performing teams, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Proven experience designing and executing regional and global talent acquisition strategies with consistency across multiple countries and sites.
• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders to align talent strategies with complex business priorities.
• Ability to navigate matrixed, global organizations with courage, influence, and credibility.
• Track record of delivering innovative and inclusive recruitment strategies, including building diverse talent pipelines and using advanced sourcing techniques.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, metrics, and labor market insights to drive decision‑making and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated agility, resilience, and tenacity in fast‑moving, evolving environments.
• Experience introducing and scaling new tools, technologies, and processes to enhance TA effectiveness.
• Strong understanding of local, regional, and global employment legislation and compliance requirements.
• Fluency in English is required.

Additional Information

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