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Director, Global Workforce Administration
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Director, Global Workforce Administration
Primary Purpose of the Position: The Global Director of Workforce Administration is a senior HR operations leader responsible for shaping and delivering a seamless, technology‑enabled, and compliant workforce administration ecosystem across Ball. Reporting to the VP of GBS, this role serves as a driver of the Networked HR Model, ensuring that employee lifecycle processes, talent operations, and total rewards administration are efficient, scalable, and aligned with business growth and transformation.
This leader will partner with the HR organization to transition workforce administration from a regional to a centralized global model. While transitioning, will drive global standardization, operational excellence, and continuous improvement to deliver a consistent and high‑quality employee experience.
What Will You be Responsible For?
Leadership and service delivery:
Deliver the strategy for workforce administration, aligning processes, systems, and governance with the Networked HR Model. Build and execute a multi‑year roadmap for scalable, technology‑driven HR operations. Serve as a strategic advisor to senior HR and business leaders on workforce administration capabilities, risks, and opportunities. Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion and accountability Deliver training, coaching, and career development to foster an environment of continuous developmentEstablish and deliver to clear KPIs and performance metrics to drive excellence within the workforce administration team.
Governance & compliance:
Establish and maintain global governance frameworks for employee lifecycle transactions, data, talent operations, and total rewards administration ensuring compliance with labor laws, GDPR, and global HR data privacy regulations. Ensure compliance with global, regional, and local labor regulations, data privacy requirements, and internal policies. Partner with Legal, Audit, and Compliance to proactively manage risk and strengthen controls.
Operational excellence:
Lead the design, optimization, and delivery of end‑to‑end employee lifecycle processes (hire‑to‑retire). Drive standardization and simplification across regions while enabling necessary local flexibility. Implement continuous improvement methodologies to enhance accuracy, speed, and service quality. Ensures smooth inquiry and issue resolution, employee support, and consistent workforce practices across the organization. Utilize data analytics to track performance, optimize processes, and enhance employee satisfaction.
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Technology & systems enablement:
Partner with Ball Technology teams to optimize HRIS platforms, automation, AI and digital tools supporting workforce administration. Champion the adoption of self‑service, workflow automation, AI, and data‑driven decision‑making. Ensure system configurations and processes support global consistency, compliance and IT standards. Manages vendor relationships to ensure high-quality, cost-effective services, through vendor selection, negotiation, and performance monitoring. Accountable for process delivery adoption, including use of technology solutions enabling process.
Cross‑functional partnership:
Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, HR Business Partners, Payroll, IT and Finance to ensure seamless end‑to‑end processes and alignment between workforce administration and business priorities. Act as a key liaison between HR and business operations to ensure workforce administration supports organizational priorities. Partner with global and regional leaders to understand needs, remove barriers, and drive adoption of standardized processes.
Financial management:
Manage and oversee the department budget, conducting cost analysis and optimization initiatives. Negotiate vendor contracts, assess ROI on recruitment tools and initiatives, and implement cost-saving measures without compromising talent quality.
What Are We Looking For?
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or related field required; Master’s degree preferred. 10+ years of progressive HR operations, workforce administration, or shared services leadership experience required. Proven success leading global teams and delivering large‑scale operational transformation required. Required to demonstrated deep expertise in HR processes, HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors), and compliance requirements. Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and process‑optimization skills required. Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive change across complex, matrixed organizations required. Experience in a Global Business Services (GBS) or shared services environment preferred. Background in manufacturing, supply chain, or similarly complex operational environments preferred. Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement certification preferred.
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This role can be based remotely; however, regular travel to Ball facilities may be required. Hiring Salary Range: $ 147,200 - $215,240 (USD) (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.) This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.
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