Purpose and MissionLead the people agenda across North America, ensuring the organization has the leadership capability, structure, talent depth, and workforce discipline required to deliver sustainable business performance. The role is the senior HR partner to regional leadership and the key interface between North American region and Group HR in Belgium.
About the RoleKey Responsibilities- Business partnership: Translate regional strategy into clear organization, workforce, and talent priorities; challenge and advise leaders on people risks and opportunities.
- Operations and commercial support: Partner with plant, functional, and sales leaders on workforce stability, productivity, capability, engagement, and change.
- Talent and succession: Attract the right Talent, build visibility of critical roles, strengthen pipeline & succession depth, accelerate development, and enable mobility across countries and functions.
- Leadership and culture: Coach leaders, raise management accountability, and promote a high-performance culture grounded in safety, respect, inclusion, and operational discipline.
- Employee and labor relations: Anticipate and address workforce, labor, and employee-relations risks in line with local legislation, business needs and labor union dynamics/negotiations to ensure desired safe, respectful, high performing and agile work environments.
- Regional and global alignment: Localize global HR frameworks, create consistency without over-centralization, and represent the regional priorities to Group HR.
- Data and execution: Use workforce insights to drive decisions and ensure disciplined delivery of the regional HR roadmap.
About You- Minimum 10 years of HRBP or regional HR leadership experience in an international, multi-site industrial or manufacturing environment
- Master's or bachelor's degree in business administration, Human Science, Law, Economics or equivalent
- Proven impact across organization design, talent, succession, leadership coaching, employee & union relations, and transformation
- Experience supporting both frontline operations and distributed commercial teams across multiple countries
- Strong cultural agility and ability to navigate differing labor, legal, and market realities across the region
- Business-oriented, pragmatic, data-informed, and credible from the plant floor to senior leadership
- Strong knowledge of employment law, talent management, and organizational development.
- Ability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Proficiency in HRIS systems and data analytics.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills.
- Fluent in English and working knowledge of Spanish
