Talent Acquisition Team Lead

As Talent Acquisition Team Lead, you will be a leader within the Global Talent Center of Excellence. You will shape the talent acquisition strategy across Mexico for our Architectural Coatings, Coating Services, and Global Business Services (GBS). You will play a critical part in allowing our business growth by ensuring we attract, engage, and hire high‑quality talent at scale.

You will operate as a strategic partner to senior business and HR leaders, collaborating with global partners and multiple Centers of Excellence to provide efficient and future‑ready talent acquisition solutions. This is a role with diverse close collaboration with our teams and external partners across multiple regions. You will be based in Mexico City and report to the Talent Acquisition Head, Americas.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business and HR leadership to build our talent acquisition strategy across Mexico, ensuring understanding of our priorities, workforce planning, and long‑term growth goals.
• Lead a diverse team of recruiters, promoting a culture of diversity, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement while building succession plans.
• Oversee and oversee end‑to‑end recruiting operations, ensuring delivery across a broad portfolio of roles while maintaining a focus on time to fill, quality of hire, and candidate experience.
• Participate in our global innovation and transformation projects, including the use of new technologies, digital tools, and AI‑enabled solutions to enhance recruiting efficiency.
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing market insights, data‑driven recommendations, and best practices to support talent attraction and hiring decisions.
• Use analytics, reporting, and financial insights to monitor performance, identify risks and opportunities, and lead optimization of talent acquisition processes.
• Operate within a global environment, building partnerships across regions, functions, and external vendors.
• Experience with full-cycle recruiting, from sourcing candidates to the interview and hiring process

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, within global organizations.
• 5+ years of proven people leadership and team management experience, leading large or distributed recruiting teams.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Fluent in English and Spanish
• Data interpretation, and financial  skills, with the ability to translate insights into applicable strategies.
• Experience with Workday (preferred) and understanding of recruiting technologies and systems.

Benefits like vacation, life insurance, health insurance, retirement/pension plans, will be discussed in the interview process. Hybrid workplace. #LI-Hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

About us: 

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD™ 

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X. 

The PPG Way 2030  

We are customer champions 

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow. 

We act with purpose and speed 

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.  

We are excellent operators 

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.   

We compete to win 

Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace new technologies and leverage agility and speed as strengths. 

We are PPG proud 

Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely, act with integrity and value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world. 

At PPG we use AI in the hiring process to make the process more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. You can learn more by going to  https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.  

PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.  

If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com. 

PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications and education, licensure and certifications, and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.  
Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well-being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.  Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process. 

PPG values your feedback on our recruiting process. We encourage you to visit Glassdoor.com and provide feedback on the process, so that we can do better today than yesterday.