Associate Director Human Resources Mexico

Company Description NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, shaping the future of how businesses understand and serve consumers. Together, we deliver The Full View™—a complete picture of consumer behavior across industries, powered by cutting-edge technology and advanced analytics. At NIQ, you’ll be part of a team that thrives on curiosity, innovation, and impact. We work with the world’s biggest brands and retailers in over 90 markets, influencing decisions that shape everyday life for billions of people. If you’re passionate about data, technology, and driving growth, NIQ is where your ideas can make a global difference. Join us and help redefine what’s possible in consumer intelligence. Job Description

Role Summary:

As the HR Leader for Mexico, you will serve as a strategic talent partner for Mexico Managing Director and you’ll shape and execute a people agenda across the market. You will oversee a team of HR Generalists and collaborate closely with HRBPs and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) to ensure best-in-class delivery of all HR programs and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Partnering:

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to the Managing Director, aligning talent strategies with commercial and operative objectives.
• Translate business context into actionable HR plans based on global and regional HR Strategy that drive impact and measurable results.
• Stay attuned to local market dynamics to ensure HR strategies are relevant and future-focused.

Team and Functional Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of four HR professionals, including Market HR and HR COEs fostering collaboration and continuous growth.
• Embed a data-informed culture by using insights and analytics to guide decision-making and assess the effectiveness of HR initiatives.

People and Culture Strategy:

• Design and implement initiatives that enhance employee experience, well-being, engagement, and retention.
• Collaborate with COEs to deliver core HR programs (e.g., total rewards, learning & development, DEI, talent acquisition), adapting them to the unique needs of each market.
• Drive a high and sustainable performance culture focus on the annual talent processes including performance management, succession planning, and incentive planning.

Employee Relations and Labor Relations:

Support leaders and associates on complex employee relations issues with empathy, fairness, and legal compliance. Include integrity HR investigations accordingly with global process and strategy

• Where applicable, lead constructive partnerships and negotiations with Works Councils and employee representatives, ensuring alignment with local labor laws and company values.

Change Leadership:

• Act as a proactive change agent, enabling transformation and organizational growth.
• Lead communication and implementation of HR initiatives with clarity, consistency, and inclusivity.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience in a senior HR direct responsible role,within a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to coach leaders, influence stakeholders, and deliver people solutions that enable business growth.
• Strong understanding of local labor legislation across the region.
• Experience leading teams and driving collaboration across HR functions.
• A passion for driving an End to end HR Strategy, including labor relations, legal understanding and creating inclusive, high-performing workplaces.

Qualifications 10+ years of progressive experience in HR, with a strong focus on business partnering and local HR understanding.

• Solid understanding of local labor laws across Mexico
• Experience in a multinational corporation is strongly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with diverse client groups and cross-functional teams.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and international environment. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, in English Confident leadership presence with a hands-on, results-oriented mindset and strong organizational capabilities. Agile and able to manage multiple priorities and projects with a proactive and solution-focused approach. Commercial acumen and a strong understanding of how HR contributes to business success. Experience in managing the company’s Works Council relationship is desirable. Additional Information Our Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off LinkedIn Learning

• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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