Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Team

■Team Overview

The Talent Acquisition team at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) recruits people who will join the team creating “entertainment experiences” enjoyed by people around the world through the PlayStation business, through mid-career hiring, new graduate hiring, dispatch, contract and part-time hiring. We hire across a diverse range of roles and levels, from engineers with advanced technologies such as hardware and system software engineers and AI/ML, to business roles such as sales and marketing, and positions in administrative departments.

The recruitment team is currently a small, elite team of 8 people, broadly divided into a new graduate recruitment team and an experienced hire recruitment team, but depending on peak seasons and changes in priorities over time, and considering initiatives common to the recruitment team, we work across boundaries as circumstances require.

In addition to hands-on recruitment, we are also involved in developing and executing initiatives beyond recruitment practice, such as improving the recruitment process, planning talent pool building initiatives, improving the onboarding process, analysing post-joining survey results and making recommendations to workplaces, and co-designing training programmes for interviewers, collaborating with various departments both within and outside HR. We are required to continuously upgrade how and what we do in recruitment in an ever-changing environment, and we actively welcome new ideas and proposals in this regard.

This position, as Senior Manager of the overall recruitment team managing the small teams for both new graduate and mid-career hiring, will not only support hands-on recruitment but also, in collaboration with the Japan HR VP, the HRBP Directors of each organisation and VP-level leaders of business teams, propose and lead medium- to long-term recruitment strategy from a professional recruitment perspective with the whole organisation in view.

Also, depending on your own capacity, you may be involved in projects spanning a fairly broad range of HR areas beyond recruitment alone, such as process improvement and system and tool updates around recruitment, collaboration in the training area, and sharing compensation trends, working with leaders of each team such as the People Operation Team, Talent Development Team, Total Reward Team within HR, as well as the IT Team and the Management Accounting Team.

While leveraging your strength as a specialist in the recruitment area, we would very much like to hear from people who want to contribute to building a better organisation with a medium- to long-term view of SIE, beyond recruitment alone, and who have that passion and drive.

■Responsibilities

As Talent Acquisition Senior Manager, you will manage the team in securing the talent required for SIE’s medium- to long-term growth, and you will be responsible for the following duties.

【Main Responsibilities】

• Formulation and promotion of medium- to long-term recruitment strategy
  • Identify medium- to long-term recruitment challenges at SIE and formulate strategy.
  • Formulate and advance the above strategy in collaboration not only with the recruitment team (New Graduate Recruitment Team Leader and Mid-Career Recruitment Team Manager) but also with HRBPs, HR department leaders (compensation, labour relations, training, etc.) and senior business leaders.
    
    
• Team management of the recruitment team
  • Management of both the new graduate and mid-career recruitment teams, development of each team’s leaders, and optimisation of resource allocation
  • Support so that team members can smoothly carry out part-time hiring, contract employee hiring/contract renewal, onboarding processes and other duties they are responsible for within the recruitment team
  • Goal setting and performance reviews for team members, and support toward achieving goals
  • Formulation of the annual budget in line with the recruitment team’s strategy, and quarterly budget-versus-actual management
  • Collection of recruitment data using Tableau, and identification and resolution of issues based on analysis results
    
    
• Optimisation and improvement of recruitment and related processes (onboarding, contract-related, etc.)
  • Cross-functional collaboration with HRBPs, HR department leaders (compensation, labour relations, training teams, etc.), management accounting, accounting, legal and other teams
  • Collaboration and information gathering with the global TA team and other global HR organisations
  • Promotion of employer branding and branding initiatives, DE&I initiatives, etc.
  • Collaboration with Sony Group companies (mainly in the new graduate recruitment area)
    
    
• Information provision to senior management and stakeholders, and proposals for better recruitment
  • Reporting on recruitment status to senior management and department heads (VP level), proposing efficient and effective recruitment processes, and building consensus and implementing them

■Requirements

【Essential Requirements】

• In-house mid-career recruitment experience of at least 5 years, and at least 10 years of experience in the recruitment area including recruitment agencies ※New graduate recruitment experience is a plus
• At least 5 years of experience managing a team of 5 or more people
• Experience working in both global and Japanese companies (ideally organisations of several hundred employees or more)
• Experience collaborating with HRBPs, and with department heads and VP-level leaders of business teams
• Japanese: native level (English is a plus). English: business level (reading, writing and participating in meetings)

【Desirable Requirements】

•  Experience in new graduate recruitment or other HR areas (organisational development, talent development, etc.)

【Required Soft Skills】

• The ability to involve others and drive new initiatives, not only within the recruitment team but also with stakeholders in business teams, HR departments and global organisations
• An attitude of seeking to deeply understand the business, aiming for recruitment that grows the organisation rather than simply filling positions
• Flexibility and a positive mindset to adapt in highly uncertain and rapidly changing environments
• Well-balanced management and coaching skills that support the growth of the team