HRbp Commercial Centroamerica

**About Kerry**:

- Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

**About the role**:
The HR Business Partner will shape & drive organizational effectiveness priorities for Commercial Functions, aligned to business growth strategy. This position will also partner and coach the GM and the Commercial Leadership Team in Centroamerica & Andean region in building and maintaining a positive Employee Experience focused on enabling a high-performance culture and to ensure a successful Talent Pipeline. The HRPB will be member of the HR Leadership Team in Latam and will collaborate across the HR Function to ensure that the HR Service Delivery model is providing effective and consistent support to employees and stakeholders.

**Key responsibilities**:
Organizational Effectiveness:

- Shape & drive and execute organizational effectiveness priorities aligned to business growth and strategy.
- Responsible for the people and organization-design for Commercial Functions in the region.
- Monitor and interpret key indicators of organizational effectiveness and ensure plan are in place to course-correct as needed.
- Coach & partner with business leaders on their role in leading organizational effectiveness.

Talent Management:

- Shape & drive talent management priorities aligned to business growth strategy.
- Shape strategic talent and capability needs of the business, advise / coach leaders on leveraging relevant Talent Pipelining solutions for business growth / ensure delivery against key organizational ‘Talent’ priorities.
- Lead core people and talent agenda e.g., Talent & Succession planning, Career Development, High Potentials, and supporting internal talent mobility.
- Partner with COEs to ensure individual and collective learning and leadership development solutions meet business requirements; coach leaders in improving leadership and management effectiveness,
- Specify strategic resourcing requirements, work with leaders to validate open roles, coaching and challenging where necessary on requirements for new or replacement roles.
- Input to assessment and selection process for critical / key leadership roles.

Reward:

- Leverage Reward Programs to drive business performance and employee engagement
- Partner with Reward COE on appropriate solutions to address business need
- Consult, partner, coach Business Leaders re Total Reward decisions
- Provide business insights to influence Reward COE strategy
- Work with Reward COE on comp packages for Senior Leader & critical roles

Employee Support & Employee Relations
- Proactive management of Employee Relations as part of our Employee Engagement agenda; ensuring compliance to standards and use of data to develop action plans to remediate issues in a timely manner
- Partner with and coach people leaders in building and managing a constructive Industrial Relations climate focused on enabling a high-performance culture

Employee Experience:

- Coach and challenge our leaders on employee engagement and people leadership accountabilities.
- Onboarding of senior leaders and critical roles.
- Coach & support people leaders on the creation and execution of ourVoice Engagement plans.
- Proactive collaboration with leaders to promote and build a more inclusive workplace.

**Qualifications and skills**:

- Bachelor's in business studies or related degree with strong academic achievement. Master's in human resource management would be advantageous.
- Previous HRBP experience, with a minimum of **8 years**’ experience across the **HR Function in Commercial area - Experience in Food industry B2B or B2C would be advantageous.**
- Strong skills leading change management and driving cultural assimilation.
- Delivery of engagement & Talent Management plans and initiatives.
- Leading creative, agile and data driven decision making and problem solving.
- High level communication skills and managing complex situations and multiple levels of stakeholders.
- Coach, influencing and facilitating right people conversations with senior stakeholders in complex and changing situations.
- Business acumen, data driven decision making.
- Fluent English (at least one interview will be in English Language).

Kerry’s Leadership Competencies:

- Ensures Accountability
- Attracts and Develops Top Talent
- Strategic Mindset
- Drives Results
- Customer Focus
- Drives Vision & Purpose