APAC Pricing Director

Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Position Overview

The Talent Acquisition Director, IST, is a key role in the HR organization focused on developing the employee value proposition / brand of IST and acquiring the best possible talent that IST can attract. Furthermore, the role holder will develop a strategic Talent Acquisition (TA) function which can provide near real-time insight into talent outside of IST, and through partnering with talent development on strategic workforce planning, positioning IST to acquire talent before needs arise. Traditional measures of assessing time to hire etc. will be key metrics for monitoring the role’s performance, but additional KPIs such as ‘time to performance’ and ‘talent impact’ will be developed to position the function as a key enabler of the company’s strategy.

This role leads a global team of professionals in TA with the mission of providing the highest calibre talent available to IST as quickly as possible, with a focus on recruiting and selecting strategic ‘game changers’ who will progress IST’s strategy at pace.

Key Missions

• Embed a TA team that is well respected and valued in the organization for delivering high-quality talent on time.
• Establish insight capabilities that provide external market intelligence on senior leader/key value creating positions.
• Establish selection and assessment methods to improve the chances of recruiting the best possible talent.
• Lead key recruitment campaigns for talent such as graduates/apprentices.
• Lead key executive recruitment, partnering with top-tier headhunters to drive best performance/value for money.
• Establish and promote KPIs that demonstrate the capability TA is contributing to the business.
• Establish advanced KPIs such as ‘time to perform’, not just ‘time to hire’.
• Although the role focuses primarily on ‘indirect’ recruitment, lead opportunities to simplify and reduce costs through selecting preferred vendors/partners for temporary labour or other direct recruiters.
• Ensure ED&I is built into recruitment, with key leading/lagging indicators established to demonstrate performance.
• Lead the management and continual improvement of IDEMIA ATS recruitment system.

Profile & Other Information

• Having led sizable (10+) recruitment teams.
• Established a research/insights team with proven insight capability.
• Highly analytical/cost and value aware are critical.
• Strong understanding of assessment and selection methodologies.
• Experience of implementing/getting the best out of ATS deployments.
• Significant experience in developing EVP/employer brands, potentially having worked with third-party consultants on branding messaging.
• Project Management skills are essential.
• Ability to formulate and execute long-term strategies that drive business growth.
• Ability to present to large/small groups to communicate the value that IDEMIA brings/establishing a strong EVP.
• Effective in leading cross-functional teams and driving strategic initiatives.
• Leading a commercial team to balance short, mid, and long-term growth, inspiring high levels of performance and coaching talent to develop/grow the team.