B&W and PC Mexico HR Lead / HR Business Partner
PC and B&W in Mexico is a business with much-loved deodorant, skin cleansing, hair and skin care brands including Dove, Rexona, Axe, Ponds, Sedal and more!
Mexico is approaching a €1 billion enterprise and plays a key role in Latam, driven by strong growth ambitions. Our office has over 150 employees and now includes the CBD BPC teams alongside the Cuernavaca factory.
This position reports to Liana Fecarotta with a dotted line to Thais Simao, partnering across all BW, PC and CBD BPC Mexico leadership teams to develop top talent and advance our new Winning Culture.
Our 2026 HR strategy focuses on three pillars: maximizing talent value, driving a Winning Culture, and evolving organizational design for productivity and AI era. In this role, you'll lead HR for B&W and PC Mexico, overseeing talent, culture, and organisational strategy while serving as a strategic business partner to drive brand, customer, and people growth.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Trusted partner and coach to the leader of PC, BW and CBD Mexico, focused on the development and delivery of people agenda aligned to the business strategy
Collaborating with Latam HR teams to establish both short-term and long-term people priorities.
Building deep business understanding and knowledge of the business area and strategy (internally and externally).
Understanding the current organization design, the gaps and collaborating with business leaders to resource for value and build workforce plans
Attracting, developing and retaining talent. Leading Talent forums including succession planning and proactive sourcing for specific capabilities, domain expertise and to address talent gaps. Embedding the Shape Your Own Adventure principles in talent and career progression practices
Team effectiveness, change & transformation, strong facilitation skills to coach and build high performing teams.
Establish and promote our Winning culture by ensuring that leaders exemplify Unilever's new behaviors on a daily basis and through cultural rituals.
Business partnering the leadership team, ensuring HR solutions and interventions are delivered on time in full.
Working and collaborating as part of the broader HR Latam community to leverage scale and consistency where appropriate.
Leveraging HR data insights and analytics to drive people and business decisions.
Identify specific learning needs and deliver the relevant capability agenda and interventions, in partnership with Expertise and Innovation functional Learning and People Growth & Development teams.
Leads key change programs and the consultation processes as appropriate for any change initiatives as and when applicable
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Systematic and strategic thinking, being able to consider longer term implications for the business, society, and ecosystems. A deep understanding of the business and levers to pull, engaging others to prioritize and pursue opportunities that deliver significant growth for Unilever and have a positive impact on the world.
An owner’s mindset, being able to use financial acumen, data, and insights to inform thinking that both makes the complex simple for others, creates a sense of urgency with a business edge and can show how those insights have created impact and delivered business value.
Leading and landing transformative change, comfortable experimenting with new approaches, pushing themselves and others to achieve outstanding outcomes.
A talent catalyst – can show how they have created an inclusive climate, empowering their teams and their business partners to be their best, building talent intimacy and successful teams and building trust and respect with business leaders.
Understanding of agile methodologies with examples of how this has been delivered.
Performance coaching –delivering honest and challenging team and personal feedback in a way that supports individual growth, team development and helps the business perform better.
Business Acumen – working so closely with the full business unit, it’s critical you are fluent with the P&L of Unilever, across all business functions (customer, marketing, SC, R&D, finance, etc).
People Leadership –identifying and nurturing talent for Unilever, through stretching developmental tasks and assignments.
Take decisions always in the interest of Unilever (rather than individual parts), showing integrity and strength under pressure
Make bold decisions & support them fiercely
Create a fearless space (psychologically safe, diverse, respectful) for all our teams, embedding Unilever values and behaviors
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.