Talent Acquisition Specialist

Sun Life · Jakarta

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You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

About the role

Make an impact on the talent that shapes Sun Life Indonesia. This temporary Talent Acquisition Specialist position offers the opportunity to lead critical and senior-level hiring, partner directly with business and C-suite leaders, and bring fresh ideas to recruitment delivery and the candidate experience. Put your expertise into action, broaden your exposure to complex hiring in a regulated industry, and contribute meaningful improvements from day one.

At Sun Life, we cultivate a High-Performance, Caring Culture that empowers our people to achieve outstanding results, embrace continuous growth, and create meaningful impact. We succeed together by fostering an inclusive environment where wellbeing, collaboration, and accountability are equally valued.

Responsibilities

(1) Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery

• Manage recruitment from intake and job description development through sourcing, assessment, offer, pre-employment clearance and onboarding handover for assigned portfolios.
• Prioritize critical, senior, statutory and specialist roles, maintain strong candidate pipelines and apply consistent selection standards.
• Manage sourcing and ensure quality submission of candidates

(2) Manage Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Recruitment Reporting

• Partner with hiring managers to clarify workforce needs, role profiles, selection criteria and hiring plans.
• Provide regular, accurate and decision-ready recruitment tracker and status updates to all hiring managers, including the Senior Management Team and C-suite leaders, highlighting progress, risks, ageing, dependencies and required decisions.

(3) Manage talent acquisition compliance and controls

• Monitor completion and evidence of background checks, reference checks, anti-money laundering and other required pre-employment controls before the applicable start date.
• Maintain recruitment documentation, audit readiness, policy adherence, issue logs, remediation follow-up and recurring compliance reporting.

(4) Drive recruitment analytics and process improvement

• Analyze recruitment data and tracker trends to improve time to fill, pipeline health, hiring quality, stakeholder experience and control effectiveness.
• Identify bottlenecks and implement practical improvements using Workday, dashboards, digital tools and standardized workflows.

Preferred skills

• Advanced knowledge of end-to-end talent acquisition, senior and specialist hiring, executive stakeholder management and candidate assessment.
• Working knowledge of Indonesia employment practices and regulated-industry recruitment controls, including background checking, documentation, audit readiness and regulatory reporting.
• Practical knowledge of tenaga ahli and foreign-worker formalities, including OJK-facing manpower documentation and coordination with Legal, Compliance, Risk and external service providers.
• Proficiency in recruitment systems and reporting tools, preferably Workday Recruiting, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and dashboard or analytics tools.
• Strong data interpretation, project management, risk identification, issue escalation and process-improvement skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in Bahasa Indonesia and English, with confidence presenting concise updates to C-suite and senior management stakeholders.
• High integrity, attention to detail, discretion and ability to manage sensitive candidate, employee and regulatory information

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, Management, Law or a related discipline.
• Typically 8 to 10 years of progressive experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including experience managing senior, specialist or regulated roles.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders and providing executive-level recruitment reporting and recommendations.
• Experience in financial services, insurance or another regulated industry is strongly preferred.
• Experience coordinating background checks, regulatory documentation, audit evidence and tenaga ahli or foreign-worker formalities is preferred.
• Professional Human Resources or recruitment certification is preferred.

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