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About the Role
The Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor will source, attract, select, and hire top-tier talent across Japan to support strategic hiring and corporate support roles for Cushman & Wakefield. This role focuses on building talent pools and pipelines within the brokerage CRE space, ensuring a cost-efficient, high-quality recruitment process. The individual contributor will provide strategic guidance on talent attraction, recruitment strategy, compliance, and HR systems like Workday and GEM.
Responsibilities
- Actively support recruitment efforts for the Japan market for both strategic and corporate hiring.
- Lead continuous improvement in recruitment processes to strengthen collaboration with local HR teams.
- Ensure effective recruitment solutions and transitions for new client accounts, meeting agreed timelines and cost constraints.
- Manage recruitment-related documentation, including coordination and generation of employment contracts.
- Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies and staffing agencies.
- Advise business leaders on talent trends, identifying and recruiting key talent proactively.
- Transition recruitment efforts from reactive to strategic and pre-emptive.
- Collaborate with Recruitment Marketing and Communications teams to market job opportunities and promote the EVP.
- Partner with HR to highlight career growth and retention initiatives across the region.
- Leverage and optimize technology platforms (e.g., Workday, GEM, LinkedIn) to streamline recruitment processes.
- Provide ongoing training to HR teams and business leaders on maximizing the value of recruitment tools.
- Ensure adherence to legislative requirements and global compliance, monitoring HR systems and processes.
- Follow the Delegation of Authority (DOA) for employment-related activities.
- Ensure accuracy in recruitment metrics, managing requisitions effectively.
- Place requisitions on hold or close them when hiring managers are not ready to engage.
- Utilize cost-effective tools and vendors to deliver recruitment services efficiently.
- Take on additional tasks and responsibilities to support broader HR initiatives as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business or human resources preferred.
- 5-7 years of relevant talent acquisition/recruitment experience within the professional services sector or similar (RPO or in-house), with a focus on brokerage hiring or similar.
- Industry knowledge of commercial real estate or property development preferred, or similar professional services environments.
- Strong knowledge of full-cycle recruiting, leveraging employer branding to attract talent and familiarity with various selection methods (e.g., interviews, assessments).
- Experience in recruiting brokers / senior sales candidates – preferably within real estate, property investment, investment banking institutions or similar industries.
- Proven experience implementing recruitment strategies aligned with business needs, partnering with HR teams.
- Ability to quickly build trust and credibility with hiring managers, offering strategic recruitment insights and talent market analysis.
- Proficiency with ATS (Workday preferred) and CRM systems (GEM preferred).
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and skilled in managing multiple priorities.
- Experience managing multiple tasks and projects with competing deadlines.
- Bilingual language capabilities in both Japanese and English a must.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruitment
- Sourcing
- Candidate Experience
- Talent Pools
- Pipelines
- Recruitment Strategy
- Compliance
- HR Systems
- Workday
- GEM
- Employer Branding
- Selection Methods
- ATS
- CRM
- Project Management
- Japanese Language
- English Language
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a global leader in real estate services, leveraging specialized expertise to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional value to owners and occupiers.
- With 52,000 employees in nearly 400 offices across 60 countries, we are one of the largest firms in the industry, with more than 100 years of history.
- In 2023, we generated $9.5 billion in revenue from our core services.
- Learn more at www.careers.cushmanwakefield.com.