Talent Acquisition Leader Japan

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

This is a tremendous opportunity to join Kyndryl in a role where you can have a huge impact on the business and see directly the difference that you can make. You will join a team of Talent Acquisition Leaders that support a combination of markets and business practices all forming part of the Talent Acquisition Centre of excellence.

This will be a challenging but richly rewarding role for someone who is motivated by transformation and driving demonstrable change and improvements at real pace. If you are someone who is motivated by the desire to do better than the day before, ambitious to stretch the art of the possible and courageous to challenge the status quo then this could be the opportunity that you have been looking for..

The Talent Acquisition Leader is responsible for driving high-quality and efficient hiring outcomes across Early Careers (in conjunction with Early Careers Leader) and professional recruitment. They strive to bring innovation, competitiveness, and high calibre experience within Kyndryl’s hiring process - thus directing contributing towards Kyndryl’s employment brand.

The TA Leader does this by creating and owning country specific Talent acquisition strategy to fulfill hiring demand in an agile, fast, data driven and empathetic manner. The TA Leader communicates the strategies to ensure demand fulfillment alignment, supports planning of hiring campaign and drives key TA performance metrics and objectives for the country or countries that they support. They play a crucial role in executing overall recruiting and sourcing strategies, monitoring TA performance, identifying enablement needs, and analysing reporting to proactively manage issues and drive continuous improvement.

Role Overview :

This position’s primary objective is to be the Talent Acquisition Partner and single Point of Contact to the Country President and is responsible and accountable to ensuring that the overarching Talent Acquisition needs of this customer are met both for hiring in-country or hiring across countries that are linked to that leaders P&L.

In addition, you will be responsible for all in country hiring fulfillment (the majority of which will be provided by a Global RPO solution) including hiring demand within your geographic scope for Global Practices. You will need to build strong collaborative relationships with the RPO Provider to both hold them accountable for delivery but also to remove barriers to their success.

To achieve this, you will need to work collaboratively across a highly matrixed organisation requiring you to partner with HR Business Partners, Workforce Solutions Teams, and our Talent Acquisition Operations Teams. You will need to provide regular TA Performance updates to leaders and manage improvement initiatives aligned to overall continuous process improvement plans as well as those specific to your geographic responsibility.

• Responsible for Service Delivery for Japan and Centers Supporting Japan Hiring.
• Leads Performance Improvement Initiatives in Country / Countries in partnership with RPO & Operations Teams
• Participate in Customer Reviews to provide core TA Performance Market Intelligence & Insights.
• Owns & Manages Country escalations / issues.
• Owns “Initiative deployments” in Country.
• Brokers & Co-ordinates support from other COE’s & Country HR Teams as required to drive change.
• Partners with other Business / Practice Aligned TA Leaders to resolve issues, challenges within Country or Countries.
• Builds clear view of growth / hiring plans / work transitions and creates strategies to address in conjunction with key stakeholders to address needs in partnership with Workforce Solutions Partner.
• Provides Market intelligence to inform strategic hiring plans / work transition projects.
• Reviews and analyzes key Data sets (Satisfaction, speed, ageing, quality) to diagnose issues & identify solutions.
• Collaborates and co-ordinates with peers to avoid duplication & re-work.
• Build strong working relationships with Country HR Leader / Business Partners to ensure a connected approach to delivery and issue resolution.
• Shares developed best practices & learnings with Peers for re-use to accelerate improvement.
• Act as talent advisors by providing insights into hiring trends, skill gaps, and competitive talent strategies.
• Ensure that the RPO provider is prioritizing the right roles at the right time.

Who You Are

Critical Skills and Experience :

Beneficial :

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily : Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.