Director, Human Resources

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

As the Human Resources Director, you will serve as a strategic and action-oriented HR partner to senior leaders across North America Corporate Functions. You will translate business priorities into practical people plans, enable enterprise transformation, strengthen organization effectiveness, and drive alignment between Global and North America teams. Working across the regional HR organization, you will help turn strategy into execution, building the talent, leadership, culture, and ways of working needed to support scalable business performance.

ABOUT YOU

You are a dynamic, authentic, and agile HR leader known for your action-oriented approach and results-driven mindset. You think strategically but move with pace, translating priorities into tangible plans, clear ownership, and measurable outcomes. You build credibility with senior leaders and cross-functional partners by bringing clarity, follow-through, and sound judgment to complex work. You are energized by transformation, organization effectiveness, and integration, and you help teams align, collaborate, and execute with discipline.

RESPONSIBILITIES - WHAT YOU WILL DRIVE

• Strategic Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to senior functional leaders, translating business strategy into practical people plans, clear priorities, and actions that strengthen performance, capbility, and culture.

• Enterprise & Integration Leadership: Lead the people aspects of cross-functional transformation, integration initiatives, and organizational change by clarifying priorities, connecting work across functions, and ensuring consistent employee experience, talent outcomes, and leadership practices.

• Operating Model Adoption: Translate new operating models, ways of working, and organizational structures into clear implementation plans, defined ownership, milestones, and disciplined follow-through across Corporate Functions.

• Organization Design & Workforce Planning: Lead organization effectiveness reviews, design recommendations, workforce planning, role architecture, and succession strategies that support business priorities while enabling agility and scalability.

• Talent & Leadership Development: Lead talent review, succession planning, and targeted development actions across Corporate Functions, building stronger leadership capability and succession pipelines for critical roles.

• Leadership Coaching: Strengthen leadership capability through coaching, feedback, assessment, and targeted development actions that enable leaders to build high-performing teams.

• Culture & Employee Experience: Champion engagement, belonging, wellbeing, and culture initiatives that foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and a high-performance environment.

• Insights & Continuous Improvement: Use data, insights, and feedback to identify opportunities, track progress, and drive measurable improvements in talent outcomes, employee experience, and organazational effectiveness.

SUCCESS PROFILE - THE CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY

• Strategic Execution: Thinks strategically, moves with pace, and applies sound judgment to turn priorities into practical action.

• Matrix Agility: Operates effectively in complex, matrixed environments, balancing enterprise perspective with pragmatic execution and stakeholder alignment.

• Change Leadership: Brings resilience, structure, and momentum to transformation and integration work, helping teams move from ambiguity to execution.

• Executive Presence & Influence: Communicates with confidence, credibility, and clarity, influencing senior leaders and shaping decisions.

• Stakeholder Credibility: Builds trust quickly across diverse stakeholder groups through strong relationships, business understanding, and disciplined follow-through.

• Enterprise Mindset: Connects priorities across Global, North America, and Corporate Functions, helping teams move from alignment to disciplined execution and consistent talent outcomes.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• University degree required; advanced degree or relevant HR certification preferred.

• 7–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including experience supporting senior functional leaders, large teams, and complex corporate functions.

• Demonstrated experience enabling enterprise transformation, organizational effectiveness, and cross-functional change initiatives in a matrixed environment.

• Experience partnering across Global, North America, and regional HR teams to integrate people plans, align leadership practices, and deliver consistent talent and employee experience outcomes.

• Strong background in organization design, workforce planning, talent review, succession planning, leadership development, and culture or engagement initiatives.

• Strong working knowledge of U.S. labor and employment laws, with awareness of employment considerations in other markets relevant to global projects, including the UK and Bermuda.

PERSONAL QUALITIES - SHARE OUR FOUNDER’S PASSION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FLAIR

• Enterprise Orientation: Brings an enterprise-first mindset, balancing global consistency with regional relevance and practical business needs.

• Collaborative Leadership: Builds strong, trusted relationships across functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups to align priorities and move work forward.

• Change Agility: Navigates ambiguity with confidence, curiosity, and resilience, helping leaders and teams adapt through transformation and change.

• Self-Awareness: Demonstrates reflection, humility, and awareness of personal impact, using feedback to strengthen leadership effectiveness.

• People Agility: Understands and connects with diverse people and perspectives, creating conditions for stronger collaboration and collective performance.

• Inclusive Culture Builder: Creates an environment where people feel valued, included, accountable, and empowered to contribute at their best.

• Entrepreneurial Drive: Shows energy, ownership, and practical creativity, bringing solutions that are bold enough to advance the business and grounded enough to execute.

LEADERSHIP AGILITY

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.
 

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become

• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others

• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance

• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.

• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with

• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person’s identity. 

U.S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Perks of Working for us

At Bacardi, we are committed to providing our Primos (employees) with a comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families. It goes beyond just Cash! The total rewards program is based on pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.

Compensation, Paid Time Off & Retirement:

• Competitive Pay Package

• Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered ( i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community)

• Retirement/Pension Plan

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs

• Best-in-class, family-friendly, and inclusive leave policies

Additional Benefits

The benefits /perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Bacardi, your work location, and are subject to change.

Some benefits may be subject to an employee contribution.

Some benefits may be fully or partially subsidized. Incentive plans are linked to the nature of your employment and can vary based on region, market, function or brand.