Senior Recruiter, APAC

Role Summary

End-to-end senior hiring across APAC

Own full-cycle recruitment for senior and leadership roles across multiple APAC countries, including intake, sourcing strategy, longlisting, interviews, offer management, and onboarding handover.

Stakeholder partnership

Partner with hiring managers and HRBPs to clarify requirements, build assessment plans, and provide market insights (talent availability, compensation ranges, competitor mapping) to drive timely decisions.

Proactive sourcing & talent mapping

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill senior roles using direct search, referrals, networking, and targeted outreach; build pipelines for priority functions and geographies.

Talent pool management

Build and maintain a high-quality APAC talent pool for priority senior roles through ongoing engagement, pipeline nurturing, and periodic talent reviews; ensure readiness for future hiring needs.

TA projects & continuous improvement

Support regional TA initiatives such as process optimization, AI and digitalization, ATS/reporting enhancement, interview capability building, and employer branding activities; contribute to standardization and best-practice sharing across APAC.

Process, compliance & reporting

Ensure recruiting processes comply with local labor practices and internal policies across markets; maintain accurate ATS data and provide regular updates on pipeline, time-to-fill, and hiring risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above; HR, Business, or related major preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years of recruiting experience, with a proven track record hiring senior / leadership roles.
• Experience recruiting across multiple countries/markets in APAC is strongly preferred.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written). Chinese / Japanese / Korean language capability is a strong plus.
• Headhunting / search firm background or strong direct sourcing capability preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, structured search skills, and ability to operate in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Statement

SGS is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

About the Company

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 93,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,400 offices and laboratories around the world.