Senior Talent Management Specialist

Jotun Dekorativ Marketing; Shah Alam; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Jotun Academy

Career development across disciplines

Engaged leadership focus

Flexi medical benefits

Job summary

Jotun Paints (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is seeking a Talent Acquisition & Management professional in Shah Alam to drive end-to-end recruitment, build strong talent pipelines and support succession planning across the organization.

You will partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce needs, deliver market intelligence, and ensure a positive candidate experience. The role emphasizes sourcing across channels, screening and interviewing for technical and cultural fit,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from requisition to onboarding.
• Source, attract, and engage high-quality candidates via LinkedIn, portals, referrals, events and headhunting.
• Screen, interview, and assess candidates for technical competency and cultural fit; provide hiring recommendations.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines; support succession planning and internal mobility across the organization.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, efficiency, and candidate experience; contribute to employer branding initiatives.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Talent management

Stakeholder collaboration

Market intelligence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR/Business/ Psychology

Job description

Summary of the Role

This role will be responsible for driving talent acquisition and talent management initiatives to support the organization's current and future workforce needs. The role partners closely with business leaders to attract, develop, and retain talent through effective recruitment, talent pipeline development, succession planning, and internal talent initiatives. This role will be based in Shah Alam, Selangor, reporting to Recruitment & Engagement Lead.

Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from manpower requisition to onboarding, ensuring a seamless and positive candidate experience. Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce requirements, provide market intelligence, talent availability and market trend. Source, attract, and engage high-quality candidates through various channels including LinkedIn, job portals, employee referrals, networking events, social media, and direct headhunting. Conduct candidate screening, interviews, and assessments to evaluate both technical competencies and cultural fit, and provide hiring recommendations to stakeholders.

Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current or future hiring needs and support strategic workforce planning. Partner with business leaders to support succession planning initiatives and strengthen leadership and critical-role pipelines. Support internal mobility initiatives by identifying and promoting suitable internal talent opportunities across the organization. Identify opportunities to enhance recruitment processes, improve operational efficiency, and elevate the overall candidate and hiring manager experience. Support employer branding initiatives, and other culture-building related programs.

Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of talent acquisition experience.
• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment across various functions and levels.
• Proficient in both spoken and written English.

Competencies

• Collaborates: Willingly working with others towards common goals, understanding the responsibilities, activities and ways to foster business interrelationships.
• Influences Others: Impacting through words and actions the perspective, attitudes and behaviours of others.
• Thinks Systemically: Recognising the complex interrelationships among business activities and understanding the "big picture" of how decisions impact the overall business, other units, outcomes or processes.
• Demonstrates Resilience: Overcoming obstacles and challenges by demonstrating an optimistic demeanour and effectively handling rejection and disappointment.
• Drives Results: Achieving high levels of productivity through personal effort, taking responsibility to ensure tasks are completed on time and with high quality, striving to obtain a challenging goal, and showing a strong drive to follow through with and complete what was started.
• Takes Initiative: Taking proactive and constructive action at work with little or no direction from others.

What We Offer

• Continuous learning opportunities and training activities through on-the-job training and our in-house learning Jotun Academy.
• Career development opportunities across multiple disciplines and geographies.
• Leaders who focus on engaging and enabling their team, proven by consistently high employee feedback scores.
• Flexi medical benefits (Outpatient, health-screening, dental and optical) are offered.

Position Information

Company: Jotun Paints (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Contract Type: Regular Time Type: Full time

Closing Date (dd.mm.yyyy): 20.11.2026

WHO WE ARE

Seeing a prominent market in South East Asia (SEAP), Jotun opened its first factory in Thailand in 1968. Rapid economic development in the region led to new companies and factories in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia and Australia. Jotun SEAP has been awarded a Korn Ferry Engaged Performance Award for year 2019, in recognition of achieving a best-in-class level of “Enablement”. We are proud to have an incredibly diversified region with more than 2,000 employees that come from different nationality and background, working together in delivering profitable growth. Throughout our history, we have focused in providing our employees with meaningful and challenging work, rewarding them through continued learning and development, underpinned by our values of Loyalty, Care, Respect and Boldness. Jotun Malaysia and Singapore were established in 1983 and 1971, respectively. With the consolidation of Jotun Malaysia & Singapore in 2016, the organisation has consistently delivered strong growth and profitability to become today one of the main contributors to our business in the South East Asia and Pacific region. The company operates three factories in Shah Alam and Nilai and has a wide network of offices and warehouses across Malaysia and Singapore, providing efficient and timely response to our customers. Our aim is to develop employees through a culture of continuous feedback, learning and growth. Visit our Career Page to know more about life at Jotun. Jotun’s company culture welcomes and values differences in people. Our more than 10,200 employees on all continents represent 90 nationalities, four generations and diversity of professions, gender, abilities, ethnicities, beliefs, cultures etc. We are committed to represent the societies we operate in, promoting equality, equity and zero-tolerance for discrimination. If you are applying to a position and require any additional support in the interview process, please let us know how we can accommodate this. If you think that this role is what you could be doing next, Jotun is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of decorative paints, marine, protective, and powder coatings. The Group has 68 companies and 40 production facilities globally, and over 10 933 employees. Jotun products are available in more than 100 countries through own subsidiaries, joint ventures, branch offices, dealers and distributors. The Jotun Group’s sales in 2025 was NOK 34.3 billion. The Jotun Group is organised into four segments and five geographical regions, and has its head office in Sandefjord, Norway. Find out what life at Jotun is like. Meet some of your colleagues and get a feeling for the company culture. Jotun believes that paints and coatings play a key role in a sustainable future. We strive to act responsibly in everything we do, and protect property with a minimum environmental impact. We embrace responsibility for our employees and the societies where we operate. With a strong corporate culture and sound values, we create a safe, diverse and inclusive workplace where people can grow. In addition, Jotun strives to make a positive impact through community initiatives and collaboration.