Talent Acquisition Manager

XP Power is a global leader in providing essential power solutions to the Industrial Technology, Healthcare and Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment sectors. We design and manufacture power controllers, the essential hardware component in every piece of electrical equipment that converts power from the electricity grid into the right form for equipment to function. Listed as a FTSE 250 company on the London Stock Exchange we are a fast-growing business, serving our global blue-chip customer base from 29 locations across Europe, North America, and Asia. We are extremely proud and committed to our culture that values Customer Focus, Flexibility, Knowledge, Speed, and Integrity. Joining our team means you’ll work in a high performing global organisation where employees collaborate and strive to make XP Power the first-choice power solutions provider delivering the ultimate experience for our customers and our people.

• End-to-end recruitment: Deliver hiring for DL, IDL, technicians, engineers, professionals and management roles.
• Workforce planning: Align hiring priorities and joining timelines with approved headcount, production demand and plant growth.
• Hands-on sourcing: Fill critical roles through direct search, referrals, recruitment platforms and specialist partners.
• Selection and offers: Agree role requirements, lead structured selection and negotiate offers within approved salary ranges.
• Production hiring: Lead high-volume recruitment campaigns aligned with operational needs and training capacity.
• Local talent pipelines: Build partnerships in Perak with universities, polytechnics and TVET institutions.
• Employer branding: Strengthen campus recruitment, graduate pipelines, referrals and candidate engagement and experience
• Recruitment leadership: Coach recruiters, guide hiring managers and manage agency delivery to resolve hiring bottlenecks.
• Hiring effectiveness: Improve time-to-fill, offer acceptance, joining rates, sourcing quality and recruitment cost while maintaining fair, ethical selection.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of talent acquisition experience, including 5 years leading a recruitment team or function.
• Manufacturing recruitment experience across high-volume production, technical, engineering and professional hiring; electronics or electrical manufacturing exposure is an advantage.
• Strong direct sourcing, structured interviewing, offer negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting plant expansion or workforce ramp-up preferred; familiarity with Perak’s talent market is preferred.
• Ability to build local talent networks and use recruitment data to improve hiring outcomes, with sound knowledge of ethical recruitment and Malaysian employment requirements.
• Effective English and Bahasa Malaysia communication; able to work on-site in Seri Iskandar, Perak, and travel for recruitment activities.

XP Power provides a safe and healthy working environment that is stimulating and collaborative, where employees are empowered to make a real difference. We place our people at the heart of everything we do. We understand that if we provide our people with the ultimate experience, they will provide the ultimate experience to our customers.