Commercial Director of Human Resources, North America

About Kerry

In careers from manufacturing to food science, Kerry’s 19,000+ people are shaping the future of food by helping to nourish and delight consumers worldwide. Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world.

Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you with opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

The Commercial Human Resources Director for North America will Partner with and coach business leaders to shape and execute organizational effectiveness and talent management priorities that directly support business growth, profitability and competitive advantage. The HR Director will be an integral member of the North America Commercial Leadership team responsible for leading profitable and sustainable growth. This individual will have specific accountability for shaping and executing plans to ensure the North America Commercial Function has the requisite leadership, talent pipeline, capabilities and culture required for successful execution of its ambitious and exciting growth strategy.

The ideal candidate for HR Director will be someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, can manage ambiguity and collaborates across Kerry's global Centers of Expertise and Global Business Services groups to ensure seamless delivery of agreed HR priorities.

This individual plays a critical leadership role, driving strategic HR initiatives and aligning HR practices with business objectives to maximize commercial performance. Serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and a critical partner on the HR Leadership Team, the HR Director provides expert guidance on organizational effectiveness, organizational design, talent management, employee engagement and change management. This role acts as a key influencer, ensuring HR strategies support sustainable business growth, performance, and culture.

This role is hybrid requiring a minimum of 3 days on site at our Beloit Wisconsin headquarters with key customers, stakeholders & the HR leadership team.

• Shape & drive organisational effectiveness priorities aligned to business growth strategy
• Lead execution of organisational effectiveness priorities and initiatives in line with business strategy and plans that improve productivity, reduce costs and enhance agility in response to market changes
• Responsible for the people and organisation‑design related aspects of change programmes – govern change initiatives to ensure people and organisational design aspects deliver commercial results.
• Monitor and interpret key indicators of organisational effectiveness, (e.g. attrition, engagement) and ensure plans are in place to course‑correct as needed
• Coach & partner with business leaders on their role in leading organisational effectiveness for revenue growth and market leadership

• Shape & drive talent management priorities that build critical capabilities aligned to business growth strategy
• Shape strategic talent and capability needs of the business, advise / coach leaders on leveraging relevant Talent Pipelining solutions for business growth / ensure delivery against key organisational ‘Talent’ priorities.
• Lead core people and talent processes e.g., Talent & Succession planning, Career Development, High Potentials, and supporting internal talent mobility.
• Partner with COEs to ensure individual and collective learning and leadership development solutions meet business requirements; coach leaders in improving leadership and management effectiveness,
• Specify strategic resourcing requirements, work with leaders to validate open roles, coaching and challenging where necessary on requirements for new or replacement roles.
• Input to assessment and selection process for critical / key leadership roles (with focus being Level D…