Regional People Partner Latin America LS and BTG

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The Regional People Partner Latin America LS and BTG (P4) will be a strategic partner across the region that owns and delivers the local associate experience – shaping and delivering strategies for engagement, culture, talent, employee relations and employer brand. The role anticipates and mitigates people risk, ensures compliant governance, and influences leaders to deliver an inclusive and positive associate culture while enabling people leaders to lead with confidence and clarity.

The People Partner works closely with HRBP, COEs, and HR Shared Services to deliver scalable, compliant execution while maintaining ownership of the people agenda.

This position reports to the Senior Director, HR Latin America (DHR and LS) and is part of the Latin America Human Resources Function located in São Paulo, Brazil.  

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

·       Own and deliver the associate experience by delivering the workforce and talent agenda.

·       Enables and coaches People leaders on complex local issues and  on engagement and culture needs across the region.

·       Act as the strategic HR partner at regional and country level, including keeping abreast of workforce planning, assuring proactivity in building capability in the organization.

·       Execute complex change initiatives and implements enterprise HR priorities within local country and region  requirements.

·       Owns Disability and apprentice hiring, government diversity reporting, organizational and mental health risk factor identification and mitigation and

·       Owns proactive labor relations and people risk response, partnering with Centers of Excellence to translate global standards into compliant local execution across all opcos in country.

People Strategy & Leader Advisory

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to LS and BTG leadership on people strategy, organizational health, and workforce risk.
• Enable People Leaders through coaching and guidance on complex people topics (e.g., organizational change, policy interpretation, leader effectiveness).
• Partner with HRBPs and COEs (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards) to translate global workforce/talent strategies into locally effective programs that improve attraction and retention.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners and business leaders to operationalize workforce plans, ensuring timely execution of headcount actions and providing real‑time insight on capacity, risk, and execution readiness

Governance, Risk, & Compliance

• Own local people governance across sites/countries, ensuring compliant, consistent application of HR policies, standards, and approved local exceptions.
• Anticipate and manage local people risk, including crisis and emergency response, in partnership with site leadership and specialist teams.
• Serve as the primary local connector between business units/OpCos and HRBP, COE, and global partners, clarifying requirements for successful local execution.
• Partner with the appropriate LER partners and leaders to assess ER/LR risk, govern escalations, and strengthen preventative practices.

Talent, Change Leadership, Culture & Engagement Execution

• Activate global and COE programs locally, leading or sponsoring key change initiatives and enabling cross-business collaboration.
• Partner regionally to align engagement and workforce priorities across sites, ensuring consistent execution within enterprise guardrails.
• Advance the local associate experience through listening channels and people analytics to set priorities and guide decisions.

The essential requirements of the job include:

·       Undergraduate degree, 7-10 years of progressive leadership roles in HR, MBA preferred

• Broad HR generalist expertise (ER, compliance, talent, engagement) with ability to independently translate global standards into locally compliant practices.
• Skilled in coaching and influencing People Leaders on sensitive matters and driving adoption of modern HR operating practices (self-service/case management).
• Track record in leading local HR projects/change with moderate-to-high complexity and delivering measurable improvements to the associate experience.
• Uses people data and associate insights to spot trends and recommend actions with HRBPs/COEs and business leaders.
• Continuous improvement and process oriented – has familiarity with lean principles, problem solving and how to apply them to Human Resources in a measurable and sustainable way

Travel

• 25% of time

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience in regulated environments, managing HR governance (legal entity, audit/regulatory, crisis response) with high confidentiality and integrity.

• Experience operating in a complex, matrixed, and global organization.

·       Leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to enhance HR decision making and execution.

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