Talent Acquisition Partner – Latin America

The Opportunity
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition professional to join our Center of Excellence (CoE) team. In this role, you will lead and implement recruitment operations and policies, focusing on identifying, assessing, and retaining top talent across the organization.

This position works closely with HR Business Partners, business leaders, and the Operations team to ensure alignment with global recruitment standards (Hitachi Global), driving process consistency, operational excellence, and productivity across the region.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Develop, oversee, and implement the Talent Acquisition strategy and operating model, with a strong focus on strategic recruiting and building partnerships that support business leaders and HR Business Partners (BPs). Act as a connector and facilitator to drive results aligned with the role's mission.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve HR processes and procedures within the functional area of responsibility, ensuring alignment with group policies and standards.
• Ensure career development opportunities by managing internal talent, building and maintaining talent pipelines, supporting inter-organizational mobility, and partnering with business areas and local HR initiatives.
• Monitor labor market trends, social media, organizational changes, and recruitment methodologies to support the implementation of effective talent identification, assessment, and retention processes across assigned countries. Collaborate with client areas, BPs, CoE colleagues, sourcing specialists, external consultants, and HROps.
• Design and manage CoE programs, ensuring quality standards and compliance with local legal requirements, quota systems, and talent development strategies. Oversee processes, contracts, costs, and future payments, and establish partnerships with public and private institutions.
• Prepare shortlists of potential candidates for strategic roles, coordinate interviews, and support business units and HRBPs in structured career movements. Provide feedback and coaching to internal and external candidates, ensuring compliance with local practices and legislation, and conduct interviews, assessments, and reference checks.
• Maintain close collaboration with the HROps team to ensure smooth coordination of hiring processes, candidate and manager interactions (job postings, scheduling, offers, etc.), and successful completion of strategic recruitment efforts.
• Build strong relationships with HR leaders, BPs, and business managers to maintain structured information flow, identify continuous improvement opportunities, and enhance practices, processes, and policies within the Talent CoE. Stay ahead of short-, medium-, and long-term business needs and talent trends.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures and guidelines.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree completed (Business Administration, Psychology, or related areas)
• Experience in Talent Acquisition or related HR functions
• Strategic planning, recruitment, and selection techniques
• Profile analysis and interpretation of psychological assessments
• Familiarity with HR technologies: CRM, Talent Management Systems, Databases, Learning & Development tools
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Advanced English

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.