Senior Talent Acquisition Partner/Recruiter - (Korea & Japan)

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across eleven offices.

Position Overview

As part of the global Talent Acquisition team, this is a key strategic role within Third Bridge. With plans to expand our Korea office, this role will be critical in identifying and recruiting the best talent into our teams across multiple disciplines. You will be responsible for working with the local leadership team to design strategic sourcing initiatives, ensuring that robust selection and assessment processes are in place.  

With overall responsibility for driving the pipeline generation for our Korea office, you will be passionate about candidate experience and be proactive in promoting our employer brand across the local market via multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Support the Talent Acquisition Manager to develop and implement recruitment strategies for Korea and Japan.

• Work together with key stakeholders and people partners to understand and deliver on talent acquisition needs

• Manage end-to-end recruitment process across business groups, and provide talent acquisition solutions to fulfill business needs in a highly efficient and effective manner

• Develop proactive sourcing strategies and build talent pools for key areas in alignment with hiring needs.

• Execute highly effective interviews and selection leveraging various selection tools and improve the quality of hires through a strong and thorough interview process.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of robust recruitment and selection processes, tools, and reporting, and ensure recruiting process compliance

• Develop and lead recruitment marketing, Employer Branding campaigns, and Campus Programs to align with local practices

• Critically evaluating recruiting data and metrics to derive insights and make informed decisions in recruitment strategy and plan to drive operation model and process efficiency, innovation, and quality

• Partner with the HRBP team to support the onboarding offboarding process of local employees in Korea

• Support Korea / Japan people projects related to retention, engagement, performance management, and our Third Bridge culture

• 4-5 years plus of experience in successfully managing the recruiting process in a fast-paced/precise environment is desired, but this may come from either an RPO or internal role.

• Hands-on business development experience and ability to maintain strong partnerships with universities in Korea for talent sourcing and engagement.

• Exposure to full-lifecycle recruiting includes req consultation, direct sourcing, screening, interview arrangement, offer negotiations, closing, and candidate relationship management.

• Develop and Maintain effective relationships with agency partners.

• Strong sourcing capabilities and experience in both agency and corporate environments preferred.

• Native in Korean, fluent or business-level English.

What you'll need

• Previous experience within an end to end talent acquisition role where you’ll have successfully sourced candidates across various business functions using multiple channels. We’re looking for someone who is proactive and self-managing, can develop strong stakeholder relationships, and delivers exceptional candidate experiences. 

• Experienced in Japan market hiring 

• Experience in campus recruitment.

• You’ll need to take pride in everything you do, sourcing, selecting, and assessing top talent for your business. 

• Of course, you’ll also need excellent communication and presentation skills to position yourself as a subject matter expert while being open to receiving feedback, which will help us continue to improve and evolve as a talent acquisition team.

Good to have

• Business-level proficiency in Japanese (JLPT N1 preferred but not required; strong verbal communication is most critical)

What can you expect

• Vacation: 15 days (which increases to 20 days after 2 years of service) 
• Learning: personal development allowance, which can be used for any learning programs you feel would be beneficial for you
• Flexibility: flexible work options, such as Work from Anywhere program and flex days, offered at the company’s discretion and subject to annual review.
• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.