Job Summary

The Head, Talent Acquisition, Taiwan is responsible for leading and executing the country Talent Acquisition strategy, ensuring the attraction, engagement, and hiring of high-quality talent to support the Bank's business priorities and growth agenda. The role serves as a trusted advisor to Business and HR leaders, providing workforce insights, market intelligence, and strategic hiring solutions across all business segments and functions.

This role combines strategic leadership with operational excellence, overseeing executive and critical hiring, talent pipelining, employer branding, stakeholder management, and recruitment delivery through a hybrid operating model comprising in-country teams, Global Business Services (GBS), and external partners. The incumbent is accountable for driving hiring outcomes, enhancing candidate and stakeholder experience, and ensuring compliance with regulatory, governance, and risk requirements within Taiwan.

About the Team / Function

The Talent Acquisition function is a key enabler of the Bank's growth and transformation agenda. It partners with business and HR leaders to deliver workforce strategies, attract top talent, and build future-ready capabilities across the organisation.

The function drives leadership and critical hiring, provides talent intelligence and market insights, strengthens employer branding, and leverages digital and AI-enabled solutions to improve hiring effectiveness and candidate experience. Operating through a collaborative model with HR, GBS, and external partners, the team ensures recruitment activities are delivered efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

• Develop and execute the Taiwan Talent Acquisition strategy aligned to business priorities and workforce plans.
• Advise business leaders on talent market trends, workforce risks, competitor intelligence, and hiring strategies.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for leadership, niche, and critical roles.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen employer branding and attract diverse talent.

Hiring Delivery & Stakeholder Partnership

• Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery across all business segments and functions.
• Partner closely with Hiring Managers and HR stakeholders to deliver hiring outcomes within agreed timelines.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex, senior, and business-critical hiring requirements.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, candidates, and external recruitment partners.

Talent Intelligence & Transformation

• Provide data-driven insights and market intelligence to inform hiring and workforce decisions.
• Leverage technology, analytics, and AI-enabled recruitment solutions to improve hiring effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement in recruitment processes, service delivery, and candidate experience.
• Champion innovative sourcing strategies and talent engagement approaches.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure recruitment activities comply with Taiwan employment regulations and internal governance standards.
• Maintain robust controls across hiring, vendor management, and candidate data handling.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate hiring-related risks and compliance matters.
• Promote the highest standards of conduct, fairness, and ethical recruitment practices.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Talent Acquisition team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build team capability in strategic advisory, talent intelligence, and stakeholder management.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• Proven Talent Acquisition leader with experience operating within large, complex, and matrixed organisations.
• Strong track record in executive hiring, workforce planning, and strategic talent advisory.
• Deep understanding of the Taiwan talent market and financial services landscape.
• Credible influencer with the ability to engage and challenge senior business stakeholders.
• Data-driven and commercially minded, with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Passionate about building high-performing teams and creating exceptional stakeholder and candidate experiences.
• Experienced in driving transformation, leveraging technology, and embedding innovative hiring practices

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Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Ability to develop and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned to business growth, workforce planning, and organisational priorities.
• Expertise in executive search, critical hiring, talent pipelining, and stakeholder advisory across complex organisations.
• Strong capability to leverage talent intelligence, market insights, analytics, and AI-enabled recruitment solutions to drive hiring outcomes.
• Sound understanding of recruitment governance, vendor management, risk controls, and Taiwan employment regulations.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.