Human Resources Director - Pigments Group

INEOS•League City, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

INEOS Pigments Group is an integrated producer of titanium dioxide for the coatings, plastics, and paper markets and a leading producer of titanium chemicals. The business also produces significant quantities of potassium hydroxide, chlorine, and pig iron as byproducts. The Pigments Group employs 750 people across five manufacturing locations in Ashtabula, Ohio and a facility in Tyssedal, Norway with business headquarters and a technical center in Columbus, Ohio as well as a small commercial office in London. INEOS Pigments Group operates in a highly unionized, capital-intensive manufacturing environment facing sustained external volatility, margin pressure and structural cost challenges. The business requires a step-change in operational performance, workforce productivity and leadership accountability. This appointment is a critical component of restoring competitiveness, improving plant-level consistency, strengthening labor flexibility and embedding a performance-driven culture. The Human Resources Director reports directly to the CEO as a member of the Pigments Group Board and is a core member of the Executive Leadership Team. This is not a traditional HR leadership role. It is a turnaround leadership mandate. The successful candidate will materially improve business performance through disciplined workforce strategy, industrial relations leadership and a reset of management capability across the business. The HRD will be accountable for delivering measurable improvement in productivity, cost competitiveness, leadership effectiveness and workforce stability within 24 months. We seek a commercially grounded HR executive with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in complex, unionized, manufacturing-intensive industries. Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers. INEOS is a world class chemical company whose products touch every aspect of modern day life. Our company is comprised of 36 businesses with 194 sites in 29 countries throughout the world. We also have interests in consumer brands and sports on a global level. Safety is our number one core value. We also take pride in our culture of diversity, inclusion, sustainability and giving to the communities in which we live. To learn more about our company and the story of our heritage, go to www.ineos.com.

Requirements

Proven track record operating in multi-union US manufacturing environments.
Demonstrated leadership of major collective bargaining negotiations.
Evidence of delivering measurable business turnaround or cost improvement.
Experience upgrading first-line leadership capability.
Strong financial literacy and comfort operating in EBITDA-driven environments.
Experience embedding HR technology and simplifying HR operating models.
Commercially decisive and performance-oriented.
Comfortable operating in industrial conflict and ambiguity.
Visible, hands-on and operationally credible.
Resilient, direct and accountable.
Trusted advisor to CEO and Board.
Minimum of 15 years’ experience in complex, unionized, manufacturing-intensive industries.
Complete fluency in English is required.
University degree ideally at master’s level in business or human resources or an equivalent subject.