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Kerry · 1 week ago

Vice President, Human Resources North America

Beloit, WI

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$302K/yr - $530K/yr

15+ years exp

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. The Vice President of Human Resources for North America is responsible for leading the HR function, shaping talent management strategies, and ensuring alignment with the company's growth objectives while fostering a high-performing culture.

AgricultureFood and Beverage

No H1B

Responsibilities

As an active member of the regional team, contribute to the ongoing development of the North America business growth plans, and delivery of articulated business priorities

Bring expertise and insight into leadership, talent, organizational and reward priorities, and serve as a trusted business partner to the Regional CEO NA and executive leadership team within a large growth-focused organization that is mid-way through a significant transformation

Achieve significant progress in addressing key talent pipeline management priorities; with a particular focus on ELT development, ELT succession and succession to prioritized leadership roles across the Region

Accelerate development of key commercial and operations capabilities across the organization, achieving the right balance of build and buy strategies, to ensure the business is sustainably equipped with the requisite leadership and expert skills to unlock future growth potential

Continue the focus on culture change through a strong focus on change leadership and on the required leadership capabilities across the Region, with Kerry Senior Leadership Competencies embedded into habitual and visible leadership behavior; support this by ensuring these leadership competencies form the 'red thread' that binds together all key people processes and integrates them with the business strategy and plans

Ensure the North America organizational design builds and embeds required capabilities effectively and efficiently, is simple and transparent, and effectively leverages GBS and Global COEs for effective and efficient delivery

Play a key role in enabling leaders to embed Kerry’s Vision, Mission, Values and Purpose within the Region, ensuring leaders continue to take ownership of ensuring employees are fully engaged and retained

Play a proactive role in current and future M&A activity, ensuring HR capability applied up-front in target selection, effective due diligence and seamless integration

Build, lead, coach and develop a highly engaged NA HR Leadership team for ongoing momentum in delivery of articulated priorities, script the next chapter of the business requirements of the team and ensure they are up for the journey – as a collective and as individuals. Maintain momentum on the existing focus on upgrading the quality of HR business partnering, ensuring GBS and COEs are fully leveraged for effective and efficient HR delivery

As a member of the Global HRLT, ensure North America priorities and requirements are addressed in the ongoing shaping and delivery of Groupwide HR priorities, actively leverage Global COEs and GBS for delivery of North America priorities

Ensure North America compliance to the Group’s Global Social Sustainability Standards, ensuring any gaps are transparent and documented, with plans are in place to address

Qualification

Business leadershipHuman resource expertiseOrganizational transformationTalent managementCulture changeExecutive partnershipCross-functional collaborationStrategic planningChange leadershipTeam leadership

Required

A minimum of 15 years' business leadership with a multi-site global organization known for the quality and business impact of its human resource practices

Possesses a highly developed mix of business leadership skills and human resource expertise. The ideal candidate will have led the regional human resource function in a complex, global business with diverse activities, and will be very familiar with HR practices in the US and ideally also Canada

A proven record of working as a highly commercial business partner with executive leadership and line managers

Demonstrated track record of achievement and results in a global matrix organization, through ability to engage and influence without necessarily having direct control, and ability to collaborate and build strong and meaningful cross-geography and cross-functional partnerships

Track record of effective leadership through significant organizational transformation - has played a leading role in business transformation in sizeable complex businesses

Has demonstrated ability to drive culture change in alignment with strategic direction, and alignment of leadership and talent agendas to chosen strategic direction

Previous experience working with a CEO/P&L leader and cross-functional leadership team in facilitating the development of a high-performing enterprise

Has championed an organization-wide talent agenda, and successfully led senior-level succession and development programs

Has played a lead role in shaping and embedding effective organization design to build required organizational capabilities

Experience of working with remuneration as a strategic enabler to drive change and transformation

Has ideally played a key role in successfully integrating acquired businesses

Previous experience and success in a general management or other P&L accountable role with a strong commercial focus would be advantageous

A university degree is required; an advanced degree in business or a related field would be highly desirable

Proven familiarity working in a similarly sized, diverse business with a global footprint

Blend of previous experience as both an HR business partner and within a centre of expertise (talent, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, learning, compensation/benefits) across the broader enterprise

10 years + team leadership experience, and development of future HR talent