Title: Human Resources Director
Atlanta, GA, US, 30338
Position Summary
Job Description
As the HR Director for North America, you will lead the regional HR strategy, ensuring alignment with global priorities while driving initiatives that foster a high-performance culture. This pivotal role is responsible for overseeing all HR functions across the region, from talent acquisition and leadership development to employee engagement and compliance. You will be a trusted partner to the business, enabling our leaders and teams to achieve organizational success through innovative and impactful HR practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the North America HR strategy, aligning with global priorities to drive organizational goals. Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team on all HR-related matters.
• Talent Management: Lead end-to-end talent processes, including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and career development programs to attract, retain, and grow top talent.
• Employee Engagement: Champion a culture of engagement by designing and implementing initiatives that enhance employee experience, foster inclusion, and align with company values.
• Leadership Development: Design and deliver leadership development programs that empower managers to lead with impact, accountability, and integrity.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local labor laws, as well as internal policies. Proactively manage HR risks and maintain ethical standards across the organization.
• HR Operations: Oversee compensation, benefits, performance management, and employee relations to ensure efficient and effective operations across the region.
• Change Management: Drive organizational transformation and change initiatives, supporting teams to adapt and thrive in a dynamic business environment.
Your Profile
- Experience: at least 10–15 years of progressive HR leadership experience, with proven expertise in managing HR functions at a regional or global level. Experience in the USA is necessary, and in Canada is relevant plus.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field. An advanced degree or HR certification (e.g., SPHR, SHRM-SCP) is highly desirable.
- Industry experience: proven experience in manufacturing, engineering, construction or mining industry is strongly preferred.
Key Competencies:
• Excellence: A concern for working well or for surpassing a standard of excellence
• Analytical Thinking: Understanding a situation, issue, problem, etc. by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
• Customer Service: Focusing one’s efforts on discovering and meeting the customer’s or client’s needs.
• Teamwork: Implies the intention to work cooperatively with others, to be part of a team, to work together, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
• Self-awareness: Reading one’s own emotions and recognizing their impact on one’s performance; gut sense.
• Exceptional problem-solver—ability to define a problem and analyze it before coming to conclusions.
• Possess a strong desire to innovate; able to think creatively; generate out-of-the-box ideas to circumvent barriers to growth and streamline processes.
• Ability to operate in a face-paced environment with competing priorities across multiple time zones.
• Extraordinary comfort with HR data and systems.
If you are an energetic, forward-thinking HR leader ready to take on a key regional role in a growing organization, we would love to hear from you.
Nearest Major Market: Atlanta