HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner – Hybrid

Location Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Come build your career.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:  

As an HR Business Partner, you will serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders and employees, translating business strategy into people priorities and delivering HR solutions that enhance performance, engagement, and organizational capability. Working in a hybrid environment, you will partner across the employee lifecycle and contribute to both local execution and broader HR initiatives.

• Partner with leaders to align people strategies with business goals, organizational priorities, and workforce needs.
• Lead and support Compensation & Benefits activities, including promotions, job changes, compensation analysis, annual bonus processes, merit cycles, and benefits-related reviews.
• Contribute to organizational design and job architecture, ensuring role clarity, consistency, and alignment with business requirements.
• Support talent management processes such as succession planning, talent reviews, performance management, leadership development, and career pathing.
• Drive employee engagement and culture initiatives to improve employee experience, retention, and organizational climate.
• Provide guidance to leaders on employee relations, performance concerns, disciplinary actions, and workplace matters, ensuring consistency and compliance with internal policies and local regulations.
• Support payroll and HR operations follow-up for the assigned population, ensuring data accuracy and timely issue resolution.
• Develop, update, and implement HR policies and practices, and provide training or guidance to leaders on local labor requirements and people management expectations.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to support recruitment efforts, ensuring hiring processes meet business needs and deliver a strong candidate experience.
• Coordinate and execute Workday transactions and approvals, ensuring process efficiency and data integrity.
• Manage vendor relationships and support external partnerships related to HR services, employee programs, and operational needs.
• Participate in regional or global HR projects, process improvements, and research efforts that strengthen HR effectiveness.
• Promote and support recognition and wellbeing initiatives that reinforce a positive and high-performing culture.
• Use HR data and business insight to identify trends, recommend actions, and support informed decision-making.

The Person:  

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Law, Human Resources, or related fields.
• Experience in generalist Human Resources processes, ideally including compensation, development, engagement, employee relations, and recruitment.
• Knowledge of labor legislation, internal policies, and disciplinary process management.
• Experience partnering with leaders and business areas on talent and people-related matters.
• Strong analytical skills to manage information related to compensation, payroll, HR metrics, and reporting.
• Experience with HR systems, preferably Workday.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.
• Intermediate to advanced English proficiency, especially for interaction in regional or global environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, organization, follow-up, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively with different stakeholders.

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan.

And More:  

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

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Applicants should apply via Stanley Black and Decker’s internal or external careers site.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are 

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. 

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development: 
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.