Company Background:

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that touch millions of lives, every day. With over 19,000 customers in over 120 countries, we create solutions that help nourish, comfort, and delight people all over the world. We are proud to source our strength from nature. That’s why we’re growing sustainably, with an industry-leading product portfolio that includes plant-based proteins, sugar alternatives and clean and simple ingredients that deliver changing consumer needs while protecting our planet. Although we are best known for our food ingredients, we are much more than a food business. We co-create bespoke solutions with our customers; from cosmetics and beauty to paper and textiles, to pharmaceuticals, driven by relentless curiosity. We make it our business to anticipate industry trends, and to bring together the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better.

Director HR, Operations LATAM

Lead. Inspire. Transform. Join a global leader where you’ll shape the future of our LATAM manufacturing

Location: São Paulo/SP

Direct reports: 7

Workplace type: Hybrid

As a Director HR, Operations LATAM, you will be a strategic partner to the LATAM Operations leadership team, driving the HR agenda across 10 manufacturing sites in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. This role is critical in aligning HR strategies with business goals, ensuring operational excellence, managing complex labor environments, and fostering a high-performance culture in a dynamic and diverse region.

Your role will be:

• Lead and develop a high-performing HR team across 10 manufacturing sites in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru.
• Partner with LATAM Operations leaders to align HR strategies with business goals.
• Guide plant managers and HR teams on talent management, employee engagement, and labor relations.
• Drive organizational design, change management, and workforce planning to support operational excellence.
• Ensure consistent implementation of global HR policies, processes, and compliance standards.
• Lead succession planning and development programs to build strong leadership pipelines.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation.

Your profile needs these qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in a business or HR discipline, MSc or MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive HR experience partnering with senior leaders.
• Experience as an HR leader in Manufacturing is important. Support of integrated supply chain (supply chain through manufacturing) highly desirable.
• Experience with unionized labor environments is critical.
• Fluent Speaker in English and Spanish

You’ll need these skills to be successful.

• You are a collaborative and people-focused HR leader who thrives in diverse, multicultural environments.
• You build trust easily, communicate with clarity, and are skilled at guiding teams through complexity and change.
• You approach challenges with curiosity, empathy, and a solutions-oriented mindset. Comfortable balancing strategy with hands-on support, you foster connection across teams and empower others to grow and succeed.
• You navigate ambiguity with confidence, bring a thoughtful, data-informed perspective to decision-making, and care deeply about cultivating an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Ingredion Total Rewards and Benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive package that aligns with our values and goals. It includes salary, incentives, health, retirement, flexibility, learning, recognition, and wellness.

• Medical and Dental Assistance;
• Bonus;
• Company Car and expenses;
• Meal and Supermarket Vouchers
• Private Pension;
• Gympass;
• Among other Incredible benefits.

Relocation Available:

No