LATAM Preboarding Leader

About the Role

Baker Hughes is seeking a Preboarding Lead for Latin America to lead the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of preboarding activities across the region. This role is responsible for shaping how the company welcomes new talent and enables a compliant, consistent, and high-quality experience from offer acceptance through start date-supporting both immediate hiring needs and long-term workforce effectiveness.

Positioned as a regional leadership role within People & Culture Experience and Performance, the Preboarding Lead ensures preboarding processes are scalable, compliant, and aligned to enterprise talent strategies, while accommodating local regulatory requirements. The role does not execute transactional activities directly; instead, it leads through governance, partnership, vendor oversight, and subject matter expertise to drive strong outcomes across delivery teams.

Partnering closely with Talent Acquisition, People & Culture team, Legal, business leaders and multiple vendors, the Preboarding Lead plays a critical role in managing operational risk, candidate experience, and vendor performance across varying hiring volumes and complex regulatory environments.

As a Preboarding Lead for Latin America, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the execution and continuous improvement of regional Preboarding processes, ensuring consistency, scalability, and compliance while enabling local flexibility.
• You will translate enterprise workforce plans and hiring strategies into effective preboarding delivery, proactively managing capacity for forecasted, peak, and bulk hiring volumes, and supporting change initiatives related to systems, processes, vendors, or organizational transitions.

Serving as the regional Subject Matter Expert for Preboarding, with deep expertise in employment offers, background screening, immigration and medical requirements, country-specific legal frameworks, and onboarding handoffs.

• You will provide risk-based guidance and recommendations to internal stakeholders, engaging appropriate authorities when policy interpretation or regulatory decisions are required.
• Owning the end-to-end candidate experience from offer acceptance through start date.
• You will ensure timely communication, clear expectations, and effective issue resolution to drive engagement, reduce offer fallout, and support positive hiring outcomes while maintaining strong operational and compliance standards.
• Overseeing the issuance of compliant employment offers, amendments, and related documentation across countries and worker types.
• You will ensure all pre-employment screening and compliance activities are completed accurately and on time, proactively identifying, mitigating, and escalating risks in partnership with internal teams and RPO providers.

Providing day-to-day governance and oversight of external RPO and preboarding service providers.

• You will establish service standards, governance routines, and escalation protocols to ensure adherence to contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, and compliance requirements.
• Acting as the strategic escalation point, you will lead root-cause analysis of high-impact issues and ensure sustainable corrective actions are implemented and tracked, while maintaining audit readiness through standardized, documented processes.

Partnering closely with Talent Acquisition leadership, People & Culture Partners, Workforce Planning, and hiring leaders to align preboarding capacity with hiring demand.

• You will act as a trusted advisor by anticipating volume fluctuations, risks, and dependencies, facilitating governance forums, stakeholder check-ins, and performance reviews to ensure transparency, alignment, and shared priorities.

Driving operational excellence through continuous evaluation of preboarding workflows, systems, and controls.

• You will identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and efficiency, implement improvements, and monitor outcomes to ensure sustained performance, knowledge capture, and continuous optimization.

Using data and performance insights to track and report key preboarding metrics, including cycle times, compliance completion, quality indicators, candidate experience, and offer fallout.

• You will ensure leadership visibility into performance trends and risks, proactively managing escalations and supporting internal, external, and government audit readiness as required.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Bring 7+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition Operations, Preboarding, Onboarding, or HR Operations within a regional or global environment.
• Demonstrate strong experience working within an RPO delivery model, including vendor governance, performance management, and escalation handling.
• Possess a solid understanding of pre-employment compliance, background screening, regulatory requirements, and workforce planning across multiple countries.
• Be comfortable operating in matrixed environments, leading through influence, governance, and partnership rather than direct execution.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance candidate experience, compliance, and operational rigor.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (preferred), or equivalent professional experience.
• Bring professional fluency in English (mandatory), Portuguese (mandatory), with proficiency in Spanish considered a strong advantage.
• Be known for simplifying complexity, setting clear standards, enabling others to succeed, and delivering outcomes in fast‑paced, global environments.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and how people want to work and deliver at their best can vary.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole, authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. To keep moving forward, we push boundaries today and prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their contributions. Join us and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs.
• Additional elective or voluntary benefits.

About Us

With operations in more than 120 countries, we offer better solutions for our customers and richer opportunities for our people. As a leading partner to the energy industry, we are committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and are always looking for the right people to help us get there—people who are as passionate as we are about making energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Health & Safety Requirement: In line with applicable regulations and role necessities, this position may require proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to perform essential duties, except for individuals not eligible for vaccination under the National Immunization Program.

Privacy Notice: Personal data collected as part of this process will be used for compliance verification, stored securely with limited access, and retained per Baker Hughes document retention policies. Personal data will be processed in accordance with the Baker Hughes Data Protection Notice and “Our Way: The Baker Hughes Code of Conduct.”

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: People & Culture Senior Team leader - Talent Recruitment Service Delivery