HR Director, Manufacturing Europe and Africa

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• Lead the HR strategy and execution across manufacturing facilities in Europe and Africa, ensuring alignment with business priorities and operational objectives. • Act as a trusted advisor to regional and site leadership teams on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent, culture, engagement, and change management. • Drive the regional people development agenda, including talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, and high-potential programs. • Lead capability-building initiatives from assessment through deployment, ensuring the organization develops the skills required to support future manufacturing and business needs. • Partner with Manufacturing leaders to build a culture of manufacturing excellence by strengthening leadership capabilities, workforce effectiveness, operational discipline, and people practices across all sites. • Drive the harmonization and continuous improvement of HR practices across the region, ensuring all factories progressively operate at BIC standards in talent management, employee engagement, labor relations, safety culture, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance. • Support strategic workforce planning and organization design initiatives to ensure the manufacturing network is equipped with the capabilities required to deliver future business objectives. • Lead the people strategy and execution for manufacturing footprint evolution initiatives, including network optimization, site start-ups, expansions, transfers of production, acquisitions, integrations, restructuring programs, and factory transformations. Ensure organizational readiness, workforce capability, effective change management, and sustainable employee engagement throughout the journey. • Lead the annual people cycle across the region, including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and compensation processes. • Support manufacturing teams in delivering productivity, efficiency, and flexibility programs while ensuring sustainable people practices. • Oversee employee and labor relations across all sites, coaching local HR leaders and supporting constructive relationships with unions, employee representatives, and works councils. • Partner with local HR teams and Centers of Excellence to attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent. • Champion a strong culture of health, safety, well-being, inclusion, and accountability across all manufacturing operations. • Ensure the effective implementation of global HR programs, processes, and policies throughout the region while balancing local business and regulatory requirements. • Build strong relationships with senior leaders across functions, divisions, and geographies, providing strategic counsel on complex people and organizational challenges.