HR Director Manufacturing LAM, NAM and Country HR Lead

Mexico City, MX, CP 53390Saltillo, MX, 25903 BIC Hybrid

Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, integral impact on our mission.

As HR Director Manufacturing NAM & LAM and Country HR Mexico, you will lead the People agenda across BIC's manufacturing operations in North America and Latin America, encompassing four manufacturing sites located in the United States, Mexico (2 factories), and Brazil, representing approximately 2000 employees. You will partner closely with regional and site leadership teams to ensure that talent, organization, culture, workforce strategies, and manufacturing capabilities support business performance, operational excellence, manufacturing excellence, and long-term growth. A key aspect of the role will be to elevate all manufacturing sites to BIC's highest standards in leadership, culture, people practices, workforce capability, and organisational effectiveness. Through a combination of talent strategy, capability building, and organisational transformation, you will help build a world‑class manufacturing organisation and support the continuous development of manufacturing excellence across the network. In addition, you will serve as the Country HR leader for Mexico, overseeing HR operations, legal compliance, payroll governance, benefits administration, time and attendance management, employee relations, and employee experience programmes across all employee populations in the country. You will ensure a seamless, compliant, and high‑quality team member experience while driving consistency in HR policies, processes, and practices. The role will also contribute to the evolution of BIC's manufacturing footprint through productivity, optimisation, acquisition, integration, expansion, consolidation or restructuring initiatives, ensuring that people considerations remain at the centre of strategic business decisions.

Manufacturing HR Leadership (NAM & LAM)

- Lead the HR strategy and execution across BIC's manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, ensuring alignment with business priorities and operational objectives.
- Act as a trusted adviser to regional and site leadership teams on organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent, culture, engagement, and change management.
- Drive the regional people development agenda, including talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, and high‑potential programmes.
- Lead capability‑building initiatives from assessment through deployment, ensuring the organisation develops the skills required to support future manufacturing and business needs.
- Partner with Manufacturing leaders to build a culture of manufacturing excellence by strengthening leadership capabilities, workforce effectiveness,



operational discipline and people practices across all sites.
- Drive the harmonisation and continuous improvement of HR practices across the region, ensuring all factories progressively operate at BIC standards in talent management, employee engagement, labour relations, safety culture, leadership effectiveness and organisational performance.
- Support strategic workforce planning and organisation design initiatives to ensure the manufacturing network is equipped with the capabilities required to deliver future business objectives.
- Lead the people strategy and execution for manufacturing footprint evolution initiatives, including network optimisation, site start‑ups, capacity expansions, transfers of production, acquisitions, integrations, restructuring programmes and factory transformations.
- Lead HR activities related to M&A; projects impacting the manufacturing network.
- Lead the annual people cycle across the region, including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, succession planning and compensation processes.
- Support manufacturing teams in delivering productivity, efficiency and flexibility programmes while ensuring sustainable people practices.
- Oversee employee and labour relations across all manufacturing sites, coaching local HR leaders and supporting constructive relationships with unions and employee representatives.
- Partner with local HR teams and Centres of Excellence to attract, develop, engage and retain top talent.
- Champion a strong culture of health, safety, well‑being, inclusion and accountability across all manufacturing operations.

Country HR Leadership (Mexico)

- Serve as the senior HR leader for Mexico, ensuring operational excellence, legal compliance and a consistent team member experience across all business functions and employee populations.
- Own the governance and continuous improvement of payroll, benefits, time and attendance management, HR administration, employee data management and local HR policies and practices.
- Ensure full compliance with Mexican labour laws, collective bargaining obligations, social security requirements, payroll regulations, tax requirements, data privacy rules and all employment related legislation.
- Lead relationships with labour authorities, external auditors, legal advisers, social security agencies and other government institutions as required.
- Partner with business leaders to ensure a consistent and positive employee experience throughout the employee life cycle from onboarding through development, performance management and separation.
- Drive local employee engagement, well‑being, recognition, inclusion and culture initiatives that reinforce BIC values and strengthen employee commitment.
- Ensure consistency and alignment of HR processes, policies and practices across all functions operating in Mexico.
- Partner with HR Centres of Excellence to effectively deploy compensation, benefits, learning,



talent management and employee relations programmes.
- Identify, assess and mitigate HR, labour, legal and compliance risks while ensuring appropriate governance and controls.
- Oversee labour relations strategy and support the effective management of employee matters investigations disputes and complex employment cases.
- Ensure excellence in HR service delivery and continuous improvement of local HR operations.

Leadership and Governance

- Build strong relationships with senior leaders across functions, divisions and geographies, providing strategic counsel on complex people and organisational challenges.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of HR professionals whilst fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Identify, develop, coach and mentor high potentials talent across the organisation.
- Continually assess and improve HR programmes policies and practices to ensure competitiveness, operational effectiveness and alignment with business needs.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable labour regulations across all countries within the scope.
- Partner with internal and external legal counsel on complex employment matters, organisational transformations, labour relations issues and strategic workforce initiatives.

Qualifications

- Ability to establish positive interpersonal relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Advanced degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organisational Development, Social Sciences or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience supporting manufacturing organisations within multinational environments preferably FMCG.
- Demonstrated experience leading HR across multiple countries and cultures within complex industrial environments.
- Strong track record in labour relations organisational transformation change management and talent development.
- Demonstrated expertise in Mexican labour law and HR operations including payroll benefits administration compliance employee relations and workforce governance.
- Experience supporting both mature and emerging markets and managing diverse workforce populations.
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect people strategies with operational and financial outcomes.

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation veteran status disability status or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications merit and business need.

BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.

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