Sr HR Manager

The Role

The Senior HR Manager is both a strategic and hands-on role that provides full-cycle Human Resources support to LATAM leaders, ensuring alignment between HR practices and business objectives. The role focuses on workforce planning aligned with business goals, ensuring labor compliance, and building a high-performance culture. Key responsibilities include organizational design, talent management, compensation and benefits, employee engagement, and leveraging data and talent analytics to drive informed decision-making. This position requires strong business acumen and the ability to influence leaders while delivering high-level service, compliance, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate brings broad HR expertise, a hands-on approach, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization.

What You’ll Do (Impact Areas)

Strategic HR Partnership: Collaborate with leadership teams to align workforce planning, talent acquisition, leadership development, early career programs, career pathing, succession planning, and mobility with business priorities.

Data-Driven Insights: Use data and talent analytics to inform decisions and create actionable plans that enable business strategy and impact results. Ensure compliance by updating People Services on local legal and regulatory changes.

Total Rewards & Compensation: Oversee market competitiveness analysis, salary adjustments, and benefits resolution in partnership with Total Rewards.

Learning & Development: Define functional training priorities, nominate talent for leadership programs, and monitor progress to strengthen capability building.

Workforce Planning & Organization: Lead annual headcount planning and propose organizational design aligned with strategic goals.

Change Leadership: Act as a change ambassador, fostering adoption and cultural alignment across the organization.

Employee Experience & Wellbeing: Implement wellbeing initiatives and engagement strategies to promote a positive, high-performance culture. Translate engagement survey insights into targeted action plans.

HR Operations & Technology: Partner with stakeholders to improve processes and lead regional HR technology projects for efficiency and scalability.

What You Bring

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Administration, Engineering, or related fields; MBA preferred.

8+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership roles in multinational environments.

Knowledge of LATAM labor laws and HR practices.

Experience in talent management, compensation analysis, and organizational development.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Fluent in English and Spanish; Portuguese is a plus.

Core Competencies

Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen

Influence and Collaboration

Agility and Change Leadership

Talent Development and Coaching

Results Orientation

Data-driven Decision Making

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About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF).

To all recruitment agencies: Clarios does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Clarios employees or any other company location. Clarios is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.

Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email .

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