Hamza Saad

TALENT LEAD – JAPAC | Nov 2022 – Feb 2024

Responsibilities

• Lead global recruitment and workforce planning across APAC, Japan, EMEA, and North America.
• Partner with C-suite and regional leadership to embed talent strategy into organizational design and transformation.
• Oversee leadership hiring, succession planning, and global capability frameworks.
• Develop proactive recruitment strategies targeting niche and leadership-level roles.

Key Achievements

• Reduced reliance on external agencies by 80%+, hiring all critical roles internally.
• Launched a SEA Graduate Program to build a sustainable early-career pipeline.
• Scaled the Japan office from 3 to 7 post-merger, managing end-to-end recruitment.
• Implemented and trained teams on Greenhouse ATS globally.
• Conducted a global compensation survey to align salaries with competitive benchmarks.

Strategic Impact

• Positioned Nexxen as an employer of choice by targeting and securing the top 1% of global talent.
• Strengthened business resilience and capability by embedding talent strategy into growth planning.
• Drove organizational alignment across regions, ensuring talent initiatives matched global transformation goals.

Responsibilities

• Owned recruitment and workforce planning across APJ for a hyper-growth SaaS Mar-Tech company.
• Partnered with leadership teams to design capability frameworks and manage talent pipelines.
• Managed all employee contracts and legal correspondence.

Key Achievements

• Recruited 30+ senior hires in 4 months (including Directors and Engineers) without external support.
• Drove Impact.com’s recognition as a Great Place to Work through cultural and engagement initiatives.
• Introduced a Slack #Kudos channel and employee growth plans, improving engagement and retention.

Strategic Impact

• Built scalable recruitment processes to support hyper-growth expansion across APJ.
• Strengthened leadership teams with high-quality hires, reducing time-to-hire and improving cultural alignment.
• Elevated employee experience by aligning people initiatives with organizational values.

Responsibilities

• Led a recruitment team of up to 5, managing end-to-end 360° recruitment within finance, IT, Technical and corporate roles.
• Built and managed client relationships at C-suite and board level.
• Coached, trained, and developed consultants to exceed productivity targets.

Key Achievements

• #1 Biller in Australia (2021) with AUD $1.6M YTD.
• Achieved 94% vacancy conversion rate with consistent billings of $280K–$340K annually.
• Ranked Top 3 in ANZ and Top 50 globally for Page Group.
• Secured multiple Preferred Supplier Agreements with enterprise clients.

Strategic Impact

• Drove revenue growth and brand positioning for Michael Page in Australia.
• Developed high-performing consultants, building team capability and succession.
• Strengthened client retention by aligning recruitment delivery with strategic business needs.

Manager Jun 2020 – Dec 2020 (Promotion)

Associate Manager Dec 2019 – May 2020 (Promotion)

Senior Recruitment Consultant, Dec 2018 – Nov 2019 (Promotion)

• Managed end to end sales process.
• Understand clients’ needs and organisational goals and provide solutions.
• Identify prospective candidates.

• Coordinate training seminars and workshops including registration and attendance.
• Perform inventory control and management, order office project and event supplies as necessary.
• Supported Project Manager and team through various administrative duties including filing data entry report generation and answering phones.
• Maintained departments electronic database and performed data entry functions regularly.
• Prepared correspondence reports and presentations and provided follow-up for verbal and written communications
• Held responsibility for set-up clean-up and break-down of meeting and conference facilities.
• Assisting the Project Manager in the hiring process, also taking the meeting minutes.
• Managed the departments online content and coordinated with other social media content on monthly basis.
• Prepared presentation materials, student communications and assisted in different marketing events.
• Assisted in different event operations every month.