Regional HR Business Services Leader, Americas Labor Relations Accountability

Regional HR Business Services Leader, Americas

Shape how HR delivers value across the Americas. As Regional HR Business Services Leader, Americas, you will combine enterprise-scale HR service leadership with deep Employee and Labor Relations expertise to translate business priorities into consistent, practical and measurable outcomes.

You will lead HR Business Services across the Americas as a business-facing delivery and service-excellence organization. Working with HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence and regional, country, site and plant leaders, you will connect workforce realities, labor frameworks and employee experience with business priorities.

We work Onsite Monday to Thursday, four days per week. Candidates should live within a practical commuting distance of a PPG office or be open to relocation.

• Lead efficient, scalable and customer-focused HR delivery across the employee lifecycle, balancing quality, speed, consistency, compliance and practical problem solving.
• Act as the senior Americas Employee and Labor Relations leader, advising regional and global leaders on workforce strategy, transformation, restructuring, footprint optimization and workforce flexibility.
• Translate business and people priorities into clear regional and local implementation plans, with defined ownership, dependencies, readiness and governance.
• Strengthen HR partnership at country, site and plant level, shaping solutions that are operationally workable and relevant to the business.
• Drive service excellence and continuous improvement using performance data, stakeholder feedback, process redesign, digital tools and AI-enabled choices.
• Lead, develop and evolve a high-performing HR Business Services organization with clear goals, accountability, capabilities and succession depth.

• Extensive progressive HR leadership experience, ideally 20+ years, with a broad HR generalist foundation and strong HR Business Partner experience.
• Proven leadership of HR Business Services, HR Operations or an equivalent delivery organization at scale across multiple countries in the Americas.
• Deep Employee and Labor Relations expertise, including experience in complex and employee-represented environments.
• Strong manufacturing, site or plant exposure and the business acumen to connect workforce choices with productivity, cost, risk and employee experience.
• A track record of leading transformation, restructuring, organizational change and continuous improvement in a global matrix organization.
• Strong judgment, executive influence and the ability to create practical, compliant paths forward in ambiguous or high-pressure situations.
• Degree in Law, Human Resources, Business or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

• With courage and pragmatism, challenging legacy assumptions while finding compliant and workable solutions.
• As a trusted partner who builds credibility across business leaders, HR, Legal, employees, unions and works councils.
• With clear accountability, strong follow-through and an unwavering focus on service quality, business value and people development.

At PPG, you will have the scale, visibility and opportunity to shape a modern HR Business Services organization. Your leadership will help simplify how work gets done, strengthen regional execution and create a better experience for employees, managers and HR partners.

Ready to make an impact? Bring your HR leadership, labor expertise and transformation mindset to PPG, and help us deliver solutions that work for our business and our people.

How we work:
At PPG, we bring teams together to accelerate collaboration and career development, with in-person work Monday through Thursday and the opportunity to work remotely on Flexible Fridays. Schedules may vary by location.

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