Recruiting Senior Manager, Avanade APAC Lead

As the Senior Manager, APAC Recruiting Lead, you will oversee end‑to‑end recruitment strategy and execution across Southeast Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Japan, and India, while also supporting Avanade’s expansion into emerging APAC markets. With accelerating growth in Japan and newly established market units across the region, you will be a critical member of the APAC Leadership Team—partnering closely with senior executives to shape talent strategies and scale hiring to meet ambitious business goals.

In this role, you will:

• Design and drive APAC-wide recruiting strategies that enable business growth, support diverse market needs, and deliver a high-performing, scalable hiring engine.

• Partner closely with regional and market unit leaders to understand talent priorities and influence workforce planning and strategic talent decisions.

• Enhance and optimize the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience from first touch through onboarding.

• Champion Avanade’s employer brand across APAC markets and ensure our value proposition is recognized globally as a top employer in the technology and consulting space.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a geographically dispersed recruiting team, fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Establish data-driven metrics and performance frameworks to measure effectiveness, identify opportunities, and continually improve recruiting outcomes.

• Manage recruiting budgets and operational plans, ensuring resources are used strategically and efficiently to support hiring needs.

• Travel as needed to partner with market leaders, support teams, and engage with regional stakeholders.

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Minimum Requirements

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• 10+ years of progressive recruitment or talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years leading recruiting teams in large, matrixed, or multinational organizations.

• Experience overseeing full-cycle recruiting across APAC or other diverse, multi-country regions.

• Demonstrated expertise driving high-volume, high-complexity hiring, particularly within technology, consulting, or professional services industries.

• Proven ability to partner with senior executives, influence decision-making, and translate business needs into actionable talent strategies.

• Strong understanding of APAC labor markets, hiring trends, and employment regulations.

• Track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams, ideally across time zones and virtual environments.

• Comfort working in highly dynamic, high-growth environments, with the ability to adapt quickly and lead change.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and analytical skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.

• Ability to travel, as required.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 
As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

 
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.
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