### Job Title Regional HR Partner South Europe & LATAM ###

Job Description
Reporting to: Director HR Partners Europe

Location:
Adaptable within South Europe (Hybrid)

About the Role
Are you passionate about shaping people strategies that drive business performance across diverse markets and cultures. As Regional HR Partner Lead South Europe / LATAM, you will lead the HR Partner organization across France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and South America (LATAM) serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders and translating business priorities into people strategies that strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce performance, and employee engagement. In this role, you will partner closely with senior leaders to build high-performing and future-ready organizations while leading a team of HR professionals responsible for delivering strategic people solutions across multiple countries. You will also play a key role in fostering constructive relationships with employee representative bodies and trade unions, ensuring strong social dialogue and effective stakeholder engagement throughout the region. As the organization continues to evolve, this role will play an important role in supporting strategic transformation and integration initiatives across the region. Working closely with business leaders and key stakeholders, the position will help shape and execute people strategies that enable organizational readiness, support workforce transitions, foster stakeholder engagement, and drive successful outcomes during periods of change, including integration, carve-out, and business transformation activities. Your Challenge As Regional HR Partner Lead South Europe / LATAM, you are responsible for partnering with business leaders to translate business objectives into people strategies that drive organizational performance, growth, and long-term success across France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and South America (LATAM). You serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic guidance on talent management, succession planning, workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, change management, and employee engagement. In addition, you lead the employee relations agenda across the region, partnering with Works Councils, employee representative bodies, and trade unions, as applicable, to ensure constructive social dialogue and effective stakeholder management. You will lead the HR Partner team supporting South Europe/LATAM, ensuring effective delivery of HR priorities, consistent execution of people initiatives, and strong alignment between business objectives, employee engagement, and people strategies. Your Responsibilities
- Lead, coach,



and develop a team of HR Partners and HR Business Partners supporting South Europe and LATAM.
- Partner with business leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with current and future business priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, leadership capability, and talent strategies.
- Drive talent review, succession planning, leadership development, and organizational capability initiatives across the region.
- Lead organizational design, restructuring, integration, and transformation initiatives.
- Guide workforce planning activities and identify future talent, capability, and organizational requirements.
- Coach leaders on performance management, employee development, leadership effectiveness, and organizational change.
- Lead strategic employee relations activities across France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and LATAM.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with Works Councils, employee representative bodies, and labour unions, as applicable.
- Support consultation, negotiation, and engagement processes related to organizational changes and business transformation initiatives.
- Assess employee relations risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies.
- Partner closely with Legal, Employee Engagement specialists, Communications, and HR Centers of Excellence to ensure coordinated and effective implementation of people initiatives.
- Foster employee engagement and support leaders in developing meaningful action plans that strengthen organizational culture and performance.
- Leverage workforce data, talent insights, and organizational metrics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Manage complex people matters and provide balanced recommendations that support both business objectives and employee engagement.
- Drive consistency of people practices while respecting local country requirements and cultural differences.
- Contribute to broader European HR priorities and strategic initiatives.
- Lead and support the people aspects of strategic transformation, integration, and business evolution initiatives across the region.
- Partner with leaders to drive organizational readiness, workforce transitions, stakeholder alignment, and sustainable adoption of change associated with integration, carve-out, restructuring, and other business transformation activities.




- Promote a data-driven approach to people management by leveraging workforce insights, people analytics, and emerging technologies. Identify opportunities to enhance decision-making, organizational effectiveness, employee experience, and HR service delivery through the application of AI and digital HR solutions.

Your Profile
*Essential
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- Significant HR leadership experience within multinational and matrixed organizations.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing HR teams.
- Strong HR Business Partnering experience supporting senior leaders and leadership teams.
- Demonstrated expertise in talent management, succession planning, workforce planning, and organizational development.
- Experience leading organizational change, transformation, and restructuring initiatives.
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate business strategy into people priorities.
- Experience working with employee representative bodies, Works Councils, labour unions, or collective employee forums.
- Strong employee relations and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Excellent coaching, communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
- Experience operating in complex, multicultural, and geographically dispersed environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to build trusted partnerships and influence at all levels of the organization. *Preferred
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- Experience supporting multinational operations across Southern Europe & LATAM
- Experience working within France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, & LATAM labour and employee relations environments.
- Experience within manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, industrial, technology, or commercial organizations.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation, integration, or growth initiatives.
- Advanced degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Organizational Development, Industrial Relations, or a related field. Interested? To ensure the privacy and confidentiality of all applicants during this internal selection process, applications for this position will not be managed through Workday. If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your CV and motivation letter directly to: [email protected] Only applications received via this email address will be considered as part of the selection process. This approach has been chosen to protect candidate privacy and ensure confidential handling of all applications. Diversity & Inclusion*Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.*

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