SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

This role will be responsible for driving talent acquisition and talent management initiatives to support the organization's current and future workforce needs. The role partners closely with business leaders to attract, develop, and retain talent through effective recruitment, talent pipeline development, succession planning, and internal talent initiatives.

This role will be based in Shah Alam, Selangor, reporting to Recruitment & Engagement Lead.

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from manpower requisition to onboarding, ensuring a seamless and positive candidate experience.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce requirements, provide market intelligence, talent availability and market trend.
• Source, attract, and engage high-quality candidates through various channels including LinkedIn, job portals, employee referrals, networking events, social media, and direct headhunting.
• Conduct candidate screening, interviews, and assessments to evaluate both technical competencies and cultural fit, and provide hiring recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current or future hiring needs and support strategic workforce planning.
• Partner with business leaders to support succession planning initiatives and strengthen leadership and critical-role pipelines.
• Support internal mobility initiatives by identifying and promoting suitable internal talent opportunities across the organization.
• Identify opportunities to enhance recruitment processes, improve operational efficiency, and elevate the overall candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Support employer branding initiatives, and other culture-building related programs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT WE OFFER

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field.

• Minimum 5 years of talent acquisition experience.
• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment across various functions and levels.
• Proficient in both spoken and written English.

 

Competencies:

• Collaborates: Willingly working with others towards common goals, understanding the responsibilities, activities and ways to foster business interrelationships.
• Influences Others: Impacting through words and actions the perspective, attitudes and behaviours of others.
• Thinks Systemically: Recognising the complex interrelationships among business activities and understanding the "big picture" of how decisions impact the overall business, other units, outcomes or processes.
• Demonstrates Resilience: Overcoming obstacles and challenges by demonstrating an optimistic demeanour and effectively handling rejection and disappointment.
• Drives Results: Achieving high levels of productivity through personal effort, taking responsibility to ensure tasks are completed on time and with high quality, striving to obtain a challenging goal, and showing a strong drive to follow through with and complete what was started.
• Takes Initiative: Taking proactive and constructive action at work with little or no direction from others.

What We Offer:

• Continuous learning opportunities and training activities through on-the-job training and our in-house learning Jotun Academy.
• Career development opportunities across multiple disciplines and geographies.
• Leaders who focus on engaging and enabling their team, proven by consistently high employee feedback scores.
• Flexi medical benefits (Outpatient, health-screening, dental and optical) are offered.

POSITION INFORMATION

Company:

Jotun Paints (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Contract Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

CLOSING DATE (dd.mm.yyyy):

20.11.2026

WHO WE ARE

Seeing a prominent market in South East Asia (SEAP), Jotun opened its first factory in Thailand in 1968. Rapid economic development in the region led to new companies and factories in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia and Australia. Jotun SEAP has been awarded a Korn Ferry Engaged Performance Award for year 2019, in recognition of achieving a best-in-class level of “Enablement”. We are proud to have an incredibly diversified region with more than 2,000 employees that come from different nationality and background, working together in delivering profitable growth. Throughout our history, we have focused in providing our employees with meaningful and challenging work, rewarding them through continued learning and development, underpinned by our values of Loyalty, Care, Respect and Boldness.

Jotun Malaysia and Singapore were established in 1983 and 1971, respectively. With the consolidation of Jotun Malaysia & Singapore in 2016, the organisation has consistently delivered strong growth and profitability to become today one of the main contributors to our business in the South East Asia and Pacific region. The company operates three factories in Shah Alam and Nilai and has a wide network of offices and warehouses across Malaysia and Singapore, providing efficient and timely response to our customers. Our aim is to develop employees through a culture of continuous feedback, learning and growth.

Visit our Career Page to know more about life at Jotun.

Jotun’s company culture welcomes and values differences in people. Our more than 10,200 employees on all continents represent 90 nationalities, four generations and diversity of professions, gender, abilities, ethnicities, beliefs, cultures etc. We are committed to represent the societies we operate in, promoting equality, equity and zero-tolerance for discrimination.

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