Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.  

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of our employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. 

• Lead the team to hire to target and be 100% staffed by optimizing sourcing, recruitment funnel and the team organization
• Drive improvements to increase the quality of hires (measured by objective metrics) through data-driven experimentation
• Ensure operational excellence in your team for every step of the recruitment process (new positions intake, JDs, pre-screening, interviews scorecards, offer communication, etc.)
• Leverage and analyze Data and Recruitment Reports to effectively partner with the Team and Business
• Reduce the cost per hire
• Ensure that Hiring Managers supported by your team develop interviewing skills
• Develop strategies to build talent pipelines and effectively raise or lower the bar adapting to hiring needs
• Manage, coach and build a team of strong Recruiters and enable them to hire game changers for Agoda
• Lead projects to transform the recruitment function. Examples of possible projects are:
  • Defining operational excellence in the recruitment process
  • Introducing new assessment tools
  • Building an upskilling program for Recruiters
  • Experimenting with different recruitment processes

• Between 8-10+ years of experience in recruitment and a minimum of 4 years of team management experience in a fast-paced, dynamic global environment
• Previous experience in hiring for Southeast Asia market is a plus
• Exposure to headcount models and resource planning is a must
• Ability to leverage data to take decisions and optimize the results
• Leadership skills to rally recruiters to achieve stretch targets
• Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Fluent in English
• Autonomous and highly motivated with a strong sense of urgency.

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At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.