VP, HR, Americas & Talent Acquisition

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, food service, household, personal care and pet products.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities.

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

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The Vice President, Human Resources, Americas is the senior strategic HR Business Partner for the Americas Commercial organization and a member of the Global HR Leadership Team. The role shapes and executes the people and organization agenda for a business spanning the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Canada, representing more than $5 billion in revenue and approximately 500 commercial employees.

Serving as the primary HR partner to the EVP, Americas and as a member of the Americas leadership team, this executive will translate business strategy into clear organization, leadership, workforce, talent, and culture priorities. The role will also serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer and senior enterprise leaders, challenge constructively, bring an enterprise perspective to decisions, and ensure people investments improve business performance, transformation outcomes, and long-term organizational capability.

This is a highly visible succession role for a leader with the potential and aspiration to progress to a CHRO position. Success requires a distinctive combination of commercial judgment, executive influence, deep HR expertise, analytical rigor, global perspective, and a hands‑on operating style.

• Partner closely with the VP, HR Operations, Americas to translate enterprise and business priorities into consistent execution, while maintaining clear distinction between strategic HR partnership and day‑to‑day HR operations.

• Mobilize global HR Centers of Excellence and shared services to deliver integrated solution in talent, rewards, organization effectiveness, workforce planning, change, analytics, and employee experience.
• Represent the Americas Commercial perspective on the Global HR Leadership Team and contribute to enterprise HR strategy, operating model, priorities, and capability building.

• Business and enterprise partnership: Serve as a high‑impact advisor to senior leaders on business strategy, organizational performance, leadership effectiveness, talent, and workforce implications. Bring independent judgment, external perspective, and the courage to challenge assumptions and elevate decisions.
• Organization and operating model: Lead organization design, decision‑rights, spans-and-layers, role clarity, and operating‑model work that increases accountability, speed, productivity, and execution effectiveness. Ensure organizational changes are supported by robust talent, communication, and adoption plans.
• Strategic workforce planning: Translate growth, productivity, portfolio, technology, and transformation priorities into multi‑year workforce plans. Identify critical roles and skills, quantify supply‑demand gaps, and…