University Relations and Early Talent Partner

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This Position reports to:

Your role and responsibilities:

In this role, you will play a vital role in the Talent Acquisition function, partnering with the business and HR leaders to provide technical expertise and solutions to current and future challenges, including Employer Branding. You will drive energizing initiatives across Malaysia & Indonesia, attracting the best candidates in line with Global and business strategies.

This position will be for two-year fixed-term contract with ABB.

The work model for the role is: Hybrid #LI-Hybrid, Onsite #LI-Onsite

This role contributes across all Business Areas in the region and is based out in Malaysia. Main stakeholders are Talent Acquisition Community, Business Leaders, HRBP's and Employees.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Deploying the Employer Value Proposition and key topics primarily for Early Talents in Malaysia and Indonesia - in line with the global guidelines and customize them to the local market across all existing activities, communication materials/channels.

• Engaging in branding initiatives and ensuring materials and digital platforms are on brand and regular social media campaigns and posts are performed to attract suitable candidates for the business in Malaysia and Indonesia.

• Building solid networks with Universities, Students' associations and subject specific networks in in Malaysia and Indonesia(i.e. engineering associations, female students' networks, etc.) identifying their success factors and positioning ABB as the employer of choice for the annual campus hiring drive.

• Marketing, coordinating and contributing to manage the existing ABB Discovery rotational program which includes continuous contacts with the business stakeholders, the other GBS HR colleagues and the participants and contributing to the review of the process to make it more efficient. Keeping KPI and data tracking.

• Setting up, promoting and contributing to finalize other initiatives and programs that support the pipeline of early talents and professionals for ABB in Malaysia and Indonesia and managing the given budget and building cases to get business support where necessary.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Business/HR/Communications related fields and experience in Employer Branding and University Relations in an international corporation.

• 5+ years of experience with branding and communications, ideally developing marketing and social media campaigns and plans.

• Good knowledge of the campus recruitment environment with end-to-end process thinking and experience of managing projects.

• Ability to network with and influence senior Business and HR leaders.

• Very good communication skills in English is a must with strong customer service orientation.

• Self-driven, resilient, energetic, enthusiastic and inclusive; creating or responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs.

What's in it for you:

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You'll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that's tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

Benefits

We also offer our employees the following benefits:

• Life Insurance

• Medical Insurance

• Accident Insurance

• Parental leave

• hybrid/flexible work practices

More about us:

In ABB HR our mission is to help ABB stand out when it comes to our people - from leadership, performance and talent management to rewards and career growth. Our goal is to be an employer of choice and deliver excellent experiences throughout the employee lifecycle.

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