Talent Acquisition Consultant

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: Manila, Philippines

Role purpose

Located in Manila, the Talent Acquisition Consultant is part of Aon’s Pacific Talent Acquisition team. They manage full-cycle recruitment for positions throughout the Pacific and wider APAC region. This role serves as a reliable talent advisor to hiring managers, People colleagues, and business leaders. It blends effective recruitment with market knowledge, proactive sourcing, and an inclusive, skills-focused method to support Aon in attracting and hiring excellent candidates.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for assigned APAC business portfolios and solution lines, from approved requisition and intake through sourcing, assessment, offer acceptance, and onboarding hand-off.
• Lead detailed intake meetings with hiring managers to understand business priorities, role outcomes, essential skills, candidate profiles, timelines, and assessment requirements; constructively challenge briefs where appropriate.
• Develop and complete fit-for-purpose recruitment strategies that reflect the role, available talent, location, remuneration, market conditions, and agreed service expectations.
• Serve as a reliable talent consultant to hiring managers, People Partners, and business leaders. Offer data-driven market analysis, pipeline updates, and clear suggestions to help guide hiring choices.
• Prioritize direct sourcing and proactively identify, engage, and nurture active and passive talent through professional networks, referrals, talent mapping, social channels, internal mobility, and targeted campaigns.
• Create sustainable pipelines for recurring, critical, niche, and hard-to-fill roles, maintaining structured engagement plans for prospective talent.
• Prepare clear, compelling, and inclusive job advertising and candidate messaging that accurately represents the opportunity, required skills, Aon’s values, and employee proposition.
• Screen and assess candidates against agreed skills, experience, and behavioral criteria, using structured and evidence-based methods to produce high-quality shortlists with varied backgrounds.
• Manage all interview and assessment activities, including arranging participant schedules, reserving interview spaces or virtual meetings, confirming logistics, and preparing candidates and interviewers. Anticipate scheduling conflicts, dependencies, and possible delays in advance, acting promptly to sustain progress and provide a smooth experience for candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues.
• Manage finalist due diligence, approvals, verbal offers, negotiation, pre-employment checks, and written-offer coordination in line with Aon policy and relevant APAC requirements.
• Partner with recruitment coordination, People Operations, onboarding, and other specialist teams to deliver an accurate and seamless transition from accepted offer to commencement.
• Deliver a consistent, responsive, and inclusive experience for candidates and hiring managers, including clear communication with candidates who do not progress.
• Maintain accurate and timely records in Aon’s applicant tracking and HR systems, ensuring data quality, process compliance, appropriate handling of candidate information, and a clear audit trail.
• Use recruitment technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve productivity, research, and decision support, while applying human judgment, protecting candidate data, and following Aon guidance.
• Monitor recruitment activity, pipeline health, aging, source effectiveness, time-to-fill, service levels, candidate experience, and other agreed measures; use insights to identify risks and improve outcomes.
• Advance delays, approval bottlenecks, market constraints, and delivery risks early, presenting practical options to keep recruitment moving.
• Use panel agencies selectively and in accordance with Aon’s supplier governance requirements when direct sourcing options have been appropriately explored.
• Support internal mobility, colleague referrals, recruitment marketing, employer-brand activity, and relevant talent initiatives across APAC region.
• Participate in continuous development, strengthening team abilities, knowledge dissemination, and regional Talent Acquisition efforts, including the integration of inclusive and competency-based hiring approaches.
• Build effective remote relationships and manage priorities across Pacific time zones or APAC time zones, aligning working patterns with collaborator and candidate needs.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end recruitment in a complex, fast-paced, and stakeholder-led environment.
• Experience recruiting in the APAC region, or the capability to rapidly build a solid understanding of APAC talent pools, candidate expectations, and hiring procedures.
• Strong consultative skills and the confidence to advise, influence, and appropriately challenge hiring managers and senior collaborators.
• Proven capability in direct sourcing, passive-candidate engagement, talent mapping, and pipeline development across a range of role types and levels.
• Sound candidate screening, interviewing, assessment, offer-management, and negotiation skills.
• A hands-on knowledge of inclusive and skills-focused hiring, organized evaluation, and equitable decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal English communication abilities, capable of tailoring messages for candidates, hiring managers, and senior leaders.
• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple vacancies, collaborators, and deadlines without compromising candidate experience.
• Comfort with applicant tracking systems, HR systems, sourcing platforms, data, and reporting tools; familiarity with iCIMS and Workday would be beneficial.
• Digital and AI proficiency, with the capability to apply emerging recruitment tools responsibly, critically assess outputs, and maintain human oversight.
• Experience in insurance, professional services, or financial services would be beneficial but is not required.
• A collaborative, curious, and improvement-focused approach, with a willingness to share knowledge and contribute beyond an individual portfolio.

Measures of success

• High-quality hiring outcomes aligned with the agreed skills and requirements of each role.
• Positive candidate and hiring-manager experience, supported by responsive and transparent communication.
• Delivery against globally agreed service levels, time-to-fill, and process achievements.
• Strong direct-sourcing outcomes, healthy talent pipelines, and disciplined use of recruitment agencies.
• Accurate system records, reliable reporting, and consistent adherence to governance and compliance requirements.
• Trusted collaborator relationships and clear, insight-led advice that improves hiring decisions.
• Visible contribution to inclusive hiring, internal mobility, employer brand, team capability, and continuous improvement.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email [email protected].

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