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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.</span></span></p><p> </p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Primary Purpose of the Position:</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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. </span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What Will You be Responsible For?</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Leadership and service delivery:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Deliver the strategy for workforce administration, aligning processes, systems, and governance with the Networked HR Model.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Build and execute a multi‑year roadmap for scalable, technology‑driven HR operations.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Serve as a strategic advisor to senior HR and business leaders on workforce administration capabilities, risks, and opportunities.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion and accountability</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Deliver training, coaching, and career development to foster an environment of continuous development</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Establish and deliver to clear KPIs and performance metrics to drive excellence within the workforce administration team.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Governance & compliance:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ensure compliance with global, regional, and local labor regulations, data privacy requirements, and internal policies.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Partner with Legal, Audit, and Compliance to proactively manage risk and strengthen controls.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Operational excellence:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lead the design, optimization, and delivery of end‑to‑end employee lifecycle processes (hire‑to‑retire).</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Drive standardization and simplification across regions while enabling necessary local flexibility.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Implement continuous improvement methodologies to enhance accuracy, speed, and service quality.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ensures smooth inquiry and issue resolution, employee support, and consistent workforce practices across the organization.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Utilize data analytics to track performance, optimize processes, and enhance employee satisfaction.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Technology & systems enablement:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Partner with Ball Technology teams to optimize HRIS platforms, automation, AI and digital tools supporting workforce administration.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Champion the adoption of self‑service, workflow automation, AI, and data‑driven decision‑making.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ensure system configurations and processes support global consistency, compliance and IT standards.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Manages vendor relationships to ensure high-quality, cost-effective services, through vendor selection, negotiation, and performance monitoring.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Accountable for process delivery adoption, including use of technology solutions enabling process.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Cross‑functional partnership:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Act as a key liaison between HR and business operations to ensure workforce administration supports organizational priorities.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Partner with global and regional leaders to understand needs, remove barriers, and drive adoption of standardized processes.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Financial management:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Manage and oversee the department budget, conducting cost analysis and optimization initiatives.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Negotiate vendor contracts, assess ROI on recruitment tools and initiatives, and implement cost-saving measures without compromising talent quality.</span></li>
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<p><strong>What Are We Looking For?</strong></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">10+ years of progressive HR operations, workforce administration, or shared services leadership experience required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Proven success leading global teams and delivering large‑scale operational transformation required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Required to demonstrated deep expertise in HR processes, HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors), and compliance requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and process‑optimization skills required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive change across complex, matrixed organizations required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Experience in a Global Business Services (GBS) or shared services environment preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Background in manufacturing, supply chain, or similarly complex operational environments preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement certification preferred.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Compensation & Benefits:</span></span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This role can be based remotely; however, regular travel to Ball facilities may be required. </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hiring Salary Range<strong>:</strong> $ 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.)</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.</span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details—such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates—from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates).</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.  </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.<br></span></span></p>
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