Talent Acquisition, Vice President

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

• Talent, Learning & Culture is a trusted partner dedicated to building a resilient and engaged workforce, ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. We value and invest in our people like we do our clients. We hire, develop, and empower talent to thrive, own their own unique path, and propel MUFG forward.
  
  

About Us

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. Please visit our website for more information - https://www.mufg.jp/english

The position works globally, and therefore diary flexibility is required to allow for regular meetings and connectivity with colleagues in the Americas, APAC, and EMEA time zones. Regular presence in London and some travel within EMEA are required.

• Role will oversee Recruitment Process Outsourcing firm (RPO) with 10-15+ resources
• Role will lead virtual teams/resources and collaborate across the HR operating model
  
  

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The main purpose of the role is to ensure delivery of strategic Talent Acquisition for the EMEA region and key business units. This role will partner with other Region TA Leads, and all EMEA countries to leverage best practices and provide a high-quality recruitment function utilising RPO and in-house resources.

To achieve this objective, as part of a global team, this role will manage and drive results of global RPO’s service delivery of Experienced Hires and Early Careers for EMEA’s in-scope countries (UK, Turkey, and MENA). Additionally, this role will provide oversight and ensure compliance with regional regulatory requirements, drive consistent practices, deliver an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience, manage to budget, and make recommendations to optimize TA processes and policies.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Act as strategic TA advisor/partner to CHRO, EMEA HR team and business clients, collaborate on workforce/staffing plans, and ensure alignment and delivery of TA resources (Executive, Experienced, and Early Careers), as needed
• As part of global team, provide oversight of RPO and ensure service delivery objectives are met and that processes are optimized and continuously improved. Ensure supplier has strong understanding of business and key business relationships; facilitate opportunities, as needed.
• Engage with key stakeholders and act as escalation for service concerns/issues.
• Partner with relevant stakeholders to ensure delivery of local TA programmes, where necessary
• Maintain regional policies, procedures and controls, and liaise with country HR to support local requirements. Manage TA RCSA and facilitate relevant regulatory/ compliance requests for local reporting and control testing.
• Stay abreast of regulatory landscape to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations; collaborate and direct supplier (as needed) to address regional compliance/risk requests.
• Support internal mobility and inclusion objectives.
• Ensure RPO and TA in all region understand and utilise MUFG Employee Value Proposition to attract and engage Talent.
• Handle third party/vendor management duties including TPRM and billing/invoicing requirements.
• Manage budget, spend and ROI.
• Act in accordance with relevant compliance guidelines, processes and procedures
• Ad hoc responsibilities, projects/initiatives, as needed.
  
  

Work Experience

Essential:

• Significant talent acquisition experience in full life-cycle recruiting and leveraging third parties and internal teams.
• Solid understanding of competitive landscape for talent
• Highly regarded for exceptional customer relationship management (i.e., business leaders, HR, hiring managers, candidates, colleagues, etc.)
• Proficient with applicant tracking systems (Workday) and various recruiting channels and digital tools/methods
• Using data and reporting to drive results and accountability
• Ability to manage and prioritize competing demands successfully to meet client needs
• Experience in talent acquisition (TA) in a large, complex environment within the financial services or commercial banking industry is strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of industry trends and best practices and knowledge of varied and current sourcing methodologies and tools
• Ability to devise and execute effective recruitment strategies, leveraging the employer brand and employee value proposition to consistently differentiate and articulate career opportunities to candidates
• Well-developed network of talent
  
  

Skills And Experience

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential Demonstrable Strengths

• Strong understanding of employment related regulatory and legislative requirements across region
• Strong analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to analyse, interpret information, identify trends, and make associated recommendations
• Expert at building relationships and partnering across organizations
• Experience working closely with Human Resources colleagues, hiring managers, and business leaders
• Experience sourcing, assessing and selecting talent.
• Experience managing talent brand initiatives and recruitment marketing/advertising campaigns
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for developing policies and procedures and delivering applicable trainings
• Strong process and auditing skills
• Well versed with laws and regulations related to recruitment and assigned area(s) of focus
  
  

Personal Requirements

• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Leverages technology to drive efficiency and results
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
• Able to influence and gain consensus across the organization
• Able to build trust and persuade at all levels
• Possesses a strong sense of urgency and customer service
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• Values accountability, integrity, quality
• Is flexible and agile, able to meet changing demands in a dynamic work environment
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• Thrives when collaborating
• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Ability to problem-solve and challenge assumptions
• Results oriented
  
  

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.