Ricardo Castelloes

Strategic HR leader partnering with Supply Chain across LATAM and Sub-Saharan and South Africa to drive business performance through a strong people agenda. Responsible for talent management, organizational effectiveness, and culture in a complex, multi-country environment. Leads talent and succession strategies, supports organizational design and transformation initiatives, and drives employee engagement and performance. Ensures compliance with labor regulations and partners with senior leaders to enable operational excellence and sustainable growth. Brings strong business acumen, experience in multicultural environments, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while leveraging data to drive impactful decisions.

Responsible for leading the HR strategy and operations across the Senador Canedo plant, Goiânia Distribution Center, and the Latin American Supply Chain organization (covering Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Miami), supporting approximately 1,700 employees (own FTEs and contractors). Key responsibilities and achievements: Lead all Human Resources systems and processes, including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Compensation & Benefits, and Employee Relations. Partner with regional and global leadership to ensure alignment between people strategy and business goals across Supply Chain operations. Oversee Facilities Management and Occupational Medicine systems, ensuring a safe, compliant, and engaging work environment. Drive initiatives focused on leadership development, engagement, culture transformation, and workforce planning to strengthen organizational capability. Support business transformation projects across Latin America, promoting efficiency, agility, and talent readiness for future challenges. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, balancing strategic vision and operational excellence in all HR and Supply Chain-related initiatives. Leadership of all Human Resources + Facilities + Occupational Medicine systems.

- Country/business unit/large sub-unit of BU responsibility for delivery and implementation of core HR processes and HR projects/initiatives. - Recognized as a subject matter expert on a variety of Human Resources related topics. - Develops local HR solutions. Accountable for operational service delivery. - Leads significant projects using moderns methodologies - Manages complex ER cases. - Regular exposure to senior leadership - Analyses the business to identify and recommend HR priorities to support business agenda. - Providing direction and staff management to HR team, ensuring activities are focused on key business issues and that an effective operational service is provided. - Reviews and guides on wider HR activities or initiatives generated by central or global groups. - Liaising with these groups to ensure they are aware of business requirements. - Ensuring a consistent approach to HR activities and compliance with regional and global policies and legal requirements whilst adhering to local statutory requirements under employment legislation. - May be project owner on certain elements of a project, will provide HR resource to business projects to ensure proper focus on people/organization aspects of the project. - Providing direction for the business in all matters associated with staff and will coach business unit management teams to enhance individual and team capability in areas of HR operations activity, such as the annual HR cycle. - HR for Tech team bringing the new methodology trends - Agile Methodology and Scrum.

Provides more complex operational consultancy to employees and top managers. Strong in-depth knowledge and subject matter expertise on a variety of Human Resource related topics. Lead small teams on implementing projects. Manages medium to high complexity ER cases. Frequent exposure to senior leadership. Provides more complex operational consultancy to top and the wider HR community. Support a designated BU in the delivery of the HR cycle i.e. bonus/pay review, Talent Management, Performance Management, and Employee Survey. Have considerable judgement to develop solutions from a factual background and fundamental principles. Imparts expert knowledge and direction in all HR disciplines to top management. Have in-depth knowledge of their BU/SBU i.e. customers, products, pressures, people and politics. Develops reports and analysis independently for work force planning purposes. Contributes to a project as a team member with ownership of certain elements of the project. Advises top management in medium to higher complexity of Employee Relations activity. Manage a team, but will have responsibility to direct and coach more junior colleagues in their development and knowledge within the HR function. Have designated business groups/s supporting first and middle management in one or cluster of countries providing support in all HR disciplines. Provide a stand -lone role or manage a HR team of advisors/administrators. Assigning and reviewing work and monitoring results. Good overall business knowledge and a commercial approach to the resolution of people issues. Regularly take part in regional projects.

Responsável por entender e propor soluções customizadas conforme as necessidades dos clientes internos, identificando em parceria com os gestores, as necessidades de desenvolvimento dos empregados das áreas de atendimento; Implementar as políticas e programas de RH, participando de reuniões das áreas clientes e identificando possibilidades de melhorias; Proposição e coordenação de ações específicas de treinamento e desenvolvimento nos clientes internos; Responsável por assegurar a execução das práticas e políticas de RH (remuneração, benefícios, seleção, desenvolvimento, administração de pessoal, etc); Atuar na gestão do clima organizacional, apoiando as áreas e os empregados no entendimento e aprimoramento das relações internas, promovendo a melhoria do Clima Organizacional; Realizar a efetiva comunicação entre as áreas clientes e os subsistemas de recursos humanos, atuando como facilitador na construção de soluções que atendam as demandas corporativas dentro da legislação vigente; Acompanhar e orientar a os profissionais da área de negócio em questões relacionadas a RH;

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