Moderna Hiring for Talent Acquisition Lead – APAC Job at Sydney Full Time

The Role:

As Moderna continues to grow our international presence, we need an innovative and experienced in-house talent acquisition leader to build and amplify recruiting in our APAC region (Australia, Japan, S Korea, and other key markets in region). This includes managing a small team, while managing a full slate of ‘new to region’ searches. This role will be responsible to rapidly build talent pipelines, tenaciously hunt the best players in our industry, own and manage our APAC TA strategy, and be a strong and visible leader and talent business partner to our hiring leaders.

We work as a team, we believe in striving for excellence, and we are relentless in our pursuit of the best talent in the industry. This role is an exciting opportunity to be a critical part of building the global talent engine which is fueling a high-growth organization that is radically disrupting the biotech industry.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Create the TA strategy for our APAC region – ensuring each market has a defined, scalable plan for hiring for 2022 and beyond. This also includes ongoing headcount management, reporting and resourcing and technology recommendations.

• Partner with hiring managers and key stakeholders to lead recruiting efforts for our growing business functions, from Development through Commercialization.

• Lead and develop a small regional TA team across time zones.

• Tenaciously build talent pipelines through networking, employee referrals, cold-calling, events and other creative channels.

• Help define and reinforce a consistent recruiting process at Moderna that results in a superior candidate and hiring manager experience. This includes robust manager kick-off sessions, interview team prep/debrief sessions, and use of mindsets-based interviewing skills and assigned focal areas.

• Leverage talent intelligence to best inform hiring managers and guide them to make smart hiring decisions.

• As needed, lead robust sourcing and recruitment marketing strategies for the APAC market in partnership with out Talent Attraction and Corporate Brand teams.

• Develop strong partnerships with Moderna HR Business Partners, Total Rewards and HR/TA Operations teams.

• Conduct in-depth talent video screens, in-person interviews (post-pandemic), and facilitate internal team discussions regarding candidates.

• Be BOLD and RELENTLESS in creating new ideas to identify, engage, attract, and assess talent into Moderna. You don’t take no for an answer, you are a relentless optimist, and you see solutions for the biggest of challenges.

• Share Moderna’s vision in “becoming the best” by identifying the highest-caliber individuals, identifying and onboarding candidates swiftly and efficiently

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.
  

• 10+ years of progressive recruiting experience – while most recent experience of working in an internal/in-house TA leadership role is required, complementary experience from external search firms is helpful.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Highly preferred to have prior experience of recruiting within high-growth biotech or pharma industry.

• Ability to manage upwards of 15 mid /senior level searches (full life cycle) – from Specialist to Sr. Director/VP-level searches.

• Fluency in English.

• Ability to be in the Melbourne office 2-3 days/week, post-pandemic and travel to APAC regional office 2-3 times a year.

• Demonstrable examples of working in a fast-paced environment, preferably with prior exposure to “growing” businesses and/or agile organizations.

• Demonstrated commitment to being seen as a true ‘talent advisor’ to the business

• Exceptional sourcing skills (you are a tenacious hunter that turns over every rock and naturally builds talent networks).

• Strong verbal and written communication skills – you are outgoing, communicative, and seek to build relationships on a daily basis.

• You drive for results and set a high bar for yourself and others

• A nature ability to be organized in how you think, communicate and conduct your work

• A ‘digital first’ mindset.

• A curious mindset that allows you to constantly learn and challenge the status quo

• Great pride in your work – you recruit because you love it and enjoy having an impact on the growth of the Company.

• Respect for others and a desire to work as a team. We win together.

• Ability to work across time zones with US HQ and work across geographies, as needed.

• Strong Excel skills and solid experience with PowerPoint and Word.

• A spirit of optimism, positivity and ‘anything is possible’ mindset.

About Moderna

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna’s capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna’s mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com .

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.