Director, Recruiting

Gartner; Sydney; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strategic impact

Global exposure

Training programs

Performance rewards

Job summary

Gartner is seeking a Recruiting Director (APAC) to lead Talent Acquisition strategy across APAC for GTS, GBS and Conferences. You will manage a recruiting leadership team, ensure systems hygiene, and drive global hiring goals with analytics and stakeholder engagement.

You will design region-specific strategies, partner with senior executives, build robust talent pools, and drive initiatives to improve recruiting quality and efficiency. This is a high-impact, global leadership role based in APAC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 8–10+ years Talent Acquisition experience.
• At least 5 years of people management experience.
• Experience managing leaders and driving global TA initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a recruiting leadership team and optimize deployment.
• Design region-specific recruiting strategies aligned with business needs.
• Analyze recruiting metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with APAC leaders and HRPs to forecast workforce needs and build pipelines.
• Utilize talent channels and enhance recruiting capability.
• Oversee operations, ensuring process efficiency and compliance.

Job description

About this role:

The Recruiting Director (APAC) leads Talent Acquisition strategy for the Global Technology Sales (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS) and Conferences across APAC. The leader will manage and develop a recruiting leadership team, ensure systems hygiene and compliance, collaborate with TA leadership, and drive global hiring goals and performance through analytics, stakeholder engagement, and change management.

What you'll do:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of leaders and recruiters, fostering a high-performance culture - optimize their deployment across recruiting activities, and drive performance and productivity to achieve hiring goals.
• Design and implement region-specific recruiting strategies, ensuring alignment with business needs and market dynamics.
• Analyze recruiting metrics, report on hiring performance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with APAC business leaders and HRPs to anticipate workforce demands, define hiring goals, ensure all hiring needs are met with quality talent by building robust talent pools and pipelines, with a focus on economics.
• Utilize all relevant talent channels, strategically lead initiatives to enhance our recruiting capability and deliver quality talent.
• Collaborate with the broader Talent Acquisition leadership team to support recruitment initiatives and drive consistency in performance.
• Drive training and development efforts across the recruiting team
• Oversee recruitment operations, ensuring process efficiency, maintain 100% systems hygiene and compliance across all systems of record, and a positive candidate experience.
• Continually manage and monitor team's workload, making adjustments and changes as needed in team resourcing and structure to grow/evolve as needed for optimal performance.

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 8-10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, with at least 5 years of people management experience, including experience managing people leaders.
• Consistent demonstration of integrity, collaboration, no limits mindset, objectivity, and delivering results consistently using global best practices.
• Ability to effectively engage and lead senior executives, including OC members, in the development of solutions for Gartner's most critical business initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple relationships and volume vacancies
• Demonstrated ability to model, influence and manage team to maintain rigor in process, compliance, and operational expertise.
• Demonstrated high level of influence, negotiation skills and ability to create trust-based, value-added relationships in a global, matrix environment.
• Demonstrated ability to design and facilitate organizational change utilizing a full spectrum of change methods.
• Strong analytical skill set and ability to solve problems and think creatively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and effective presentation skills
• Excellent consulting, coaching and facilitation skills.

What we offer:

• A seat to the table to help drive peak performance in a growing, people business.
• Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo.
• Exposure to industry-leading training and development.
• Performance-based recognition and rewards.

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities - opportunities that may not even exist right now - for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you'll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients' AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You'll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It's an exciting time to be at Gartner,