Senior Manager, Workforce & Talent - Global Engineering & Services Leader | HCMC

Our client is a leading global industrial and technical services company with operations across multiple international markets. 

With an established presence in Vietnam, the company is continuing to strengthen its organization and develop its long-term talent capabilities. As part of this growth, the company is looking to appoint a senior HR professional to support its people and workforce strategy.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the HR Director, this role will act as a senior HR business partner to the organization, working closely with business leaders across commercial, operational and service functions.

The position will have a strong focus on workforce planning and strategic talent acquisition, while also taking ownership of talent retention, development and succession planning for critical positions.

This is a broad HR leadership role for someone who can combine strategic thinking with strong execution and build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Workforce Planning & Strategic Talent Acquisition

• Partner with business leaders to translate business plans into workforce and organization plans.
• Develop short- and long-term workforce planning across service, commercial and corporate functions.
• Identify critical capabilities, talent gaps and future workforce requirements.
• Lead strategic recruitment planning for key and critical positions.
• Develop proactive talent pipelines rather than relying solely on vacancy-driven recruitment.
• Work closely with business leaders to improve hiring quality, workforce productivity and organizational effectiveness.

Talent Management, Retention & Succession

• Establish and develop succession planning for critical positions.
• Identify high-potential and critical talent and develop appropriate retention strategies.
• Build career development and internal mobility initiatives.
• Analyze employee turnover and identify practical actions to improve retention.
• Partner with leaders on performance, development and organizational effectiveness.
• Strengthen the leadership and talent pipeline for future business needs.

Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted HR partner to senior commercial and operational leaders.
• Provide HR insights and challenge business decisions where appropriate.
• Support organizational changes as the business continues to evolve.
• Use workforce and people data to support business decisions.

HR Leadership

• Partner closely with the HR Director across broader HR initiatives and strategic projects.
• Contribute to organization development, performance management, compensation and employee engagement initiatives.
• Take increasing ownership of strategic HR responsibilities with potential progression into broader HR leadership.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally including HRBP, workforce planning and talent management.
• Strong experience in workforce planning and strategic talent acquisition.
• Proven experience developing talent retention and succession planning programs.
• Strong commercial and business partnering capability.
• Experience working with senior business leaders, particularly Commercial, Sales, Operations or Service functions.
• Experience in an MNC, industrial, engineering, manufacturing, technical services or similarly complex environment is preferred.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to translate business strategy into people strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• English proficiency.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a global organization and experienced international HR teams.
• Broad exposure to strategic HR, workforce planning and talent management.
• Opportunity to play a key role in shaping the organization's workforce and talent strategy.
• Professional and collaborative working environment.
• Opportunities to work on regional and cross-functional HR initiatives.