Human Resources Manager - Mexico

Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc; Región Valles; On-site; MXN 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. in Tala, Jalisco, Mexico, is seeking an HR Manager to lead local HR strategy and operations. You will partner with regional leaders to drive talent development, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, including payroll, employee relations, and change management, across multi-site operations. Fluency in Spanish and English is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field; advanced degree or HR certification preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 3 years leading HR teams, preferably in multi-site, agricultural, manufacturing, or operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of Mexican labor legislation, HR compliance, and employee relations.
• Proven experience partnering with business leaders and regional/global HR teams, including shared services and Centers of Excellence.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, problem-solving, influencing, decision-making, and project management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and use HR data, metrics, and systems to support decisions.

Responsibilities

• Strategic HR Alignment: Serves as the primary HR business partner for Mexico, aligning people strategies with business priorities.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Partners with the Mexico leadership team on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent, leadership capability, employee engagement, and change management.
• End-to-End HR Operations: Leads the overall HR operation, including talent acquisition, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, development, succession planning, retention, and offboarding.
• Leadership Coaching: Acts as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, coaching them on people leadership, communication, performance, employee relations, conflict resolution, and team development.
• Labor & Employee Relations: Leads complex employee and labor relations matters, ensuring consistent, practical, and legally compliant solutions.
• Payroll: Ensures accurate and timely payroll processing, with correct employee payments and prompt resolution of discrepancies.
• Global & Regional Collaboration: Partners with regional and global HR teams and Centers of Excellence on compensation, benefits, talent, learning, HR operations, policies, and other global programs.
• EHS & Site Welfare: Leads employee wellness, health, safety, and site people programs in close alignment with EHS and site leadership.
• Culture & Engagement: Leads initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, culture, communication, recognition, and connection to Fall Creek’s purpose and future.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensures HR policies, processes, and practices are effective, scalable, consistent, and compliant with Mexican labor legislation.
• Data-Driven Insights: Uses workforce data and insights to monitor trends, identify risks, measure effectiveness, and support business decisions.
• Team Mentorship: Leads and develops the local HR team, setting clear expectations, developing capabilities, and holding the team accountable for results.
• Budget & Workforce Planning: Manages the local HR budget and supports workforce planning and other financial decisions related to people.
• HR Operational Excellence: Continuously optimizes and simplifies HR processes while maintaining the flexibility required by the business.

Skills

HR leadership

Labor legislation

Employee relations

Organizational development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business or related field

Advanced degree or HR certification preferred

Tools

HRIS / HR systems

Job description

Career Opportunities: HR Manager - Mexico (2363)

Requisition ID2363-Posted10/16/2026-Human Resources-Full-Time- Job Posting Country (1)

Fall Creek is creating a world with better blueberries through itsfriendly,collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking aqualified HR Manager - Mexico This position will be located in Tala, Jalisco.

The HR Manager – Mexico leads local HR strategy and operations, partnering with Mexico leadership and Regional HR Business Partner – LATAM to drive business growth through talent development, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness. This role combines strategic leadership with operational execution to develop leaders, manage change, resolve complex people issues, and attract, develop, and retain talent.

What you'll do at Fall Creek:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Strategic HR Alignment: Serves as the primary HR business partner for Mexico, aligning people strategies with business priorities.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Partners with the Mexico leadership team on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent, leadership capability, employee engagement, and change management.
• End-to-End HR Operations: Leads the overall HR operation, including talent acquisition, onboarding, pemployee relations, performance management, development, succession planning, retention, and offboarding.
• Leadership Coaching: Acts as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, coaching them on people leadership, communication, performance, employee relations, conflict resolution, and team development.
• Labor & Employee Relations: Leads complex employee and labor relations matters, ensuring consistent, practical, and legally compliant solutions.
• Payroll: Ensures accurate and timely payroll processing, with correct employee payments and prompt resolution of discrepancies.
• Global & Regional Collaboration: Partners with regional and global HR teams and Centers of Excellence on compensation, benefits, talent, learning, HR operations, policies, and other global programs.
• EHS & Site Welfare: Leads employee wellness, health, safety, and site people programs in close alignment with EHS and site leadership.
• Culture & Engagement: Leads initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, culture, communication, recognition, and connection to Fall Creek’s purpose and future.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensures HR policies, processes, and practices are effective, scalable, consistent, and compliant with Mexican labor legislation.
• Data-Driven Insights: Uses workforce data and insights to monitor trends, identify risks, measure effectiveness, and support business decisions.
• Team Mentorship: Leads and develops the local HR team, setting clear expectations, developing capabilities, and holding the team accountable for results.
• Budget & Workforce Planning: Manages the local HR budget and supports workforce planning and other financial decisions related to people.
• HR Operational Excellence: Continuously optimizes and simplifies HR processes while maintaining the flexibility required by the business.

What you bring to Fall Creek:

REQUIRED EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND TRAINING:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field; advanced degree or HR certification preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 3 years leading HR teams, preferably in multi-site, agricultural, manufacturing, or operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of Mexican labor legislation, HR compliance, and employee relations.
• Proven experience partnering with business leaders and regional/global HR teams, including shared services and Centers of Excellence.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, problem-solving, influencing, decision-making, and project management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and use HR data, metrics, and systems to support decisions.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Fluent in Spanish with strong professional English communication skills.
• Experience in agriculture, horticulture, plant production, manufacturing, or other operational environments.
• Experience supporting organizational growth, transformation, and change in agile environments.
• Ability to work across multiple locations and cultures, influence without direct authority, and build trust across all organizational levels.
• Strong business orientation and ability to align people strategies with business outcomes.

Who is Fall Creek?

We’re a US-based company with a keen focus on blueberry genetics, plants,and grower support delivered to the world’s premier blueberry growers. From our humble beginnings in Lowell, Oregonmore than40 years ago, we now also havewholly-ownednurseries in Mexico, Peru, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, China, and Chile. Additionally, we have built a global team of the finest breeders, researchers, propagators and nursery professionals, grower support technicians, sales and customer service experts and more. We’re adeeply-plantedlink in a global chain, ready to serve our customers and our industry throughout North, Central,and South America, Greater Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our mission is to serve the growers and to support the blueberry industry, helping to ensure growers maximize success through our delivery of the best genetics and plants, technical know-how and global market intelligence. To fulfill our mission, we focus on cultivating exceptional plants, building strong relationships and providing responsive customer service. This is all part of how we’re helping to build A World with Better Blueberries.