Global Director Talent Acquisition (Flexible work location)

About the Role

As an experienced Talent Acquisition (TA) leader, you will manage a complex function at scale, combining enterprise perspective with operational discipline. With proven experience setting strategy, delivering through others, responding to changing business demands, and making difficult prioritization decisions, you will ensure consistent execution across different labor markets and operating environments.

• Lead Alcoa’s global Talent Acquisition function, setting strategic direction, performance expectations, governance, and accountability.
• Deliver consistent, high-quality recruitment outcomes across executive, professional, technical, operational, early-career, and high-volume hiring environments.
• Translate business priorities, workforce plans, and changing market conditions into practical sourcing strategies, resource plans, and delivery priorities.
• Build proactive talent pipelines and attraction strategies for critical, scarce, safety-sensitive, remote-location, and hard-to-fill roles.
• Leverage talent intelligence, workforce insights, labor market trends, and emerging technologies, including AI, to anticipate future capability needs, strengthen talent pipelines, and inform long-term talent strategies.
• Connect external hiring with enterprise talent priorities, including internal mobility, succession planning, skills strategies, and future workforce needs.
• Use data, analytics, market intelligence, technology, and operational reviews to improve hiring quality, speed, pipeline health, candidate experience, and efficiency.
• Strengthen hiring quality through consistent, inclusive, evidence-based assessment and selection practices aligned with Alcoa’s values and safety expectations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and HR leaders, navigating priorities, risks, resources, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations with clarity and commercial discipline.

Requirements

• Significant Talent Acquisition leadership experience in large, complex, global, and/or geographically dispersed organizations.
• Proven ability to lead through regional, functional, or business-based TA leaders, building capability, accountability, and consistent delivery.
• Broad sourcing experience across complex hiring environments, including operational, technical, professional, high-volume, leadership, and executive roles.
• Strong track record of improving hiring outcomes, recruitment performance, stakeholder experience, and service delivery effectiveness through robust processes and systems.
• Ability to manage changing demands, competing priorities, capacity constraints, and complex delivery challenges with sound judgment and commercial discipline.
• Experience connecting Talent Acquisition with workforce planning, business strategy, future skills, succession planning, and broader talent priorities.
• A proven track record of using data, metrics, market intelligence, and business insight to guide decisions, influence stakeholders, and improve outcomes.
• Strong executive presence, communication, people leadership, and influencing skills within a global matrix environment.

About the Location

Alcoa is an international company with multiple locations and joint ventures across six continents. Wherever you choose to join us, you’ll be part of a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. As industry pioneers, we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminum company, bridging the journey from mines to metal.

Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful, and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying, and harassment, reflecting the diversity of the communities in which we operate.