Manager, TA APAC

The Manager, TA APAC leads and delivers end‑to‑end talent acquisition strategy and execution across the Asia‑Pacific region. This role partners closely with business leaders and HR to build diverse, high‑quality talent pipelines, improve hiring outcomes, and ensure a consistent, compliant, and engaging candidate experience. The role offers the opportunity to shape regional hiring strategy, lead teams, and make a measurable impact on growth and capability building in a dynamic MedTech organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead APAC talent acquisition strategy and delivery, aligning hiring plans with business priorities and workforce plans.

• Manage and develop TA team members, fostering high performance, capability growth, and engagement.

• Partner with senior leaders and HR to provide consultative guidance on hiring needs, market insights, and talent solutions.

• Drive end‑to‑end recruiting excellence, including sourcing strategy, assessment, offers, and onboarding coordination.

• Ensure a consistent, inclusive, and high‑quality candidate experience across the region.

• Oversee recruiting operations, metrics, and analytics to improve speed, quality, and cost of hire.

• Ensure compliance with company policies, data privacy standards, and local labor regulations across APAC.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimization, technology enablement, and vendor management.

Where required to be managed locally:

• Document handling: Print, stamp/seal, mail/ship, distribute, and route documents for wet signatures.

• Records management: Store/archive/retrieve HR documents; fulfill requests; coordinate offsite storage; scan and name for Veeva.

• Compliance/admin: Upload/submit filings; print and hand-deliver to agencies; support audits and onsite audit coordination.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.

• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Typically 10 years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years TA leadership or people‑management responsibilities.

• Demonstrated experience leading regional or multi‑market recruitment in APAC.

• Strong stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.

• Experience with TA assessment and selection tools to recruit top talent.

• Proven ability to use recruiting data and insights to drive selection, decisions and outcomes.

• Experience managing recruiting operations, vendors, and external partners.

• Strong people‑leadership, coaching, and change‑management capabilities.

Preferred:

• Experience recruiting within Orthopaedics industry. MedTech, Pharma, or Healthcare experience also considered

• Familiarity with APAC labor markets, hiring practices, and compliance considerations.

• Experience driving employment branding projects to improve candidate attraction.

• Experience driving TA transformation, process improvement, or technology implementation.

• Background working in a global, matrixed organization.

Other:

• Language: Fluent English required; Mandarin Chinese and Japanese strongly preferred.

• Travel: Up to ~30%, primarily within APAC.

• Certifications: Talent acquisition or HR certifications preferred but not required.

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Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

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