HR Director, Mexico – Hybrid
Mexico City, Mexico
Come build something that matters.
It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.
The Job:
The HR Director serves as a strategic advisor to business leaders and is responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives across both commercial and manufacturing organizations. This role partners closely with senior leadership to drive organizational effectiveness, talent outcomes, workforce planning, culture, and change management.
The ideal candidate brings strong HR leadership experience supporting commercial functions such as sales, marketing, product management, customer service, or business development, as well as manufacturing operations including plant leadership, supply chain, and operational teams. This individual must be equally effective in executive-level business discussions and in translating and implanting strategy into practical people solutions across diverse operating environments.
As a Human Resources Director, you’ll be part of our Mexico team working as a hybrid employee.
You’ll get to:
- Guide and manage the overall Human Resources function, services, policies, and programs as well as promote and implement human resource values by planning and managing HR programs for Stanley Black & Decker’s Mexico operation.
- Translate business strategy into people priorities, workforce plans, and organizational actions.
- Provide leadership on talent management, succession planning, performance management, and leadership development.
- Partner with leaders to design and implement organizational structures that support growth, productivity, and operational excellence.
- Support commercial teams in areas such as capability building, sales effectiveness, organizational design, and talent planning.
- Support manufacturing leaders in workforce planning, labor strategy, employee engagement, frontline leadership effectiveness, and operational culture.
- Lead change management efforts tied to transformation, restructuring, growth initiatives, and continuous improvement.
- Use people data and business insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve performance.
- Partner with Centers of Excellence and HR operations teams to deliver integrated HR solutions.
- Ensure consistent application of HR policies, practices, and compliance requirements.
- Coach leaders on employee relations, team effectiveness, leadership capability, and organizational health.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture across both office-based and plant-based populations.
- Develops organization strategies by identifying and researching human resources issues; contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to organization strategic thinking and direction; establishing human resources objectives in line with organizational objectives.
- Accomplishes special project results by identifying and clarifying issues and priorities; communicating and coordinating requirements; expediting fulfillment; evaluating milestone accomplishments; evaluating optional courses of action; changing assumptions and direction.
- Supports leaders by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions; analyzing information and applications.
- Guides management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicating and enforcing organization values.
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value.
The Person:
You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:
- At least 8 years of experience in Human Resources Management
- Experience working within a highly matrixed multinational company
- Advanced English skills a must
- Strong business acumen, judgment, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated experience supporting commercial organizations/functions as well as manufacturing environments.
- Proven ability to influence and partner with senior leaders on strategic and operational people matters.
- Strong experience in organizational design, talent management, change management, and employee relations
- Hiring and Retaining Employees
- Developing Standards & Promoting Process Improvement
- Highly trusted at all levels of the organization. Acts with integrity and is an advocate for both employees and the business.
- Foster Teamwork; Building Relationships
- Management Proficiency; Managing Profitability
- Organizational Astuteness, People Skills
The Details:
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan.
And More:
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:
- Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
- Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
- Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
- Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.
What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!
Applicants should apply via Stanley Black and Decker’s internal or external careers site.
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
