The Senior Manager, Labor Relations – Mexico, reporting directly to the Vice President of Human Resources, leads the company’s overall labor‑relations and compliance strategy across nine facilities, overseeing union relations, regulatory adherence, and labor‑risk management to ensure consistent application of corporate policies and support business stability.

What you’ll do:

Ø Labor Strategy & Compliance

• Lead national labor‑relations strategy and compliance, including developing and executing labor‑relations plans across all Mexican sites, ensuring consistent corporate policy application, and overseeing full compliance with Mexican labor law, STPS regulations, USMCA labor provisions, and international standards.

• Serve as the company’s strategic labor advisor, acting as project lead for all labor‑compliance initiatives, coordinating cross‑functional efforts, monitoring regulatory changes, ensuring audit readiness and timely remediation, and advising senior leadership on labor climate, workforce dynamics, and labor‑related risks.

Ø Union Relations

• Lead all union‑relations and labor‑management interactions, serving as the primary liaison with unions, overseeing collective bargaining, contract renewals, union‑environment strategies, and resolving disputes and grievances in alignment with company policies.

• Build strong, long‑term union partnerships while strengthening internal capability, including developing positive relationships with union leadership and coaching plant leaders and HR teams on effective, compliant union‑interaction practices.

Ø Employee Relations

• Foster a positive and productive workplace environment by promoting respect and collaboration, supporting HR in disciplinary and conflict‑resolution processes, and implementing initiatives that reduce absenteeism and turnover.

Ø Risk Management

• Proactively manage labor‑related risk and government relations by identifying and mitigating operational labor risks, maintaining strong partnerships with labor authorities, and leading crisis‑management efforts for disputes, strikes, or regulatory investigations.

Ø Reporting & Metrics

• Measure and strengthen overall labor‑compliance performance by tracking gap‑closure timeliness, monitoring audit results and recurrence rates, maintaining USMCA‑specific compliance KPIs, and delivering executive dashboards that highlight risks, trends, and long‑term improvement opportunities across all Mexican operations.

What is required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Law, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s preferred). 

• 10+ years of experience in multi-site labor relations within automotive or manufacturing sectors.

• Proven experience managing union negotiations and CBAs in Mexico.

• Strong knowledge of Mexican labor law and international labor standards.

• Excellent negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution skills.

• Familiarity with NOM-035 and other workplace compliance standards.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Advanced English skills

• Willing to travel within Mexico up to 50%

What’s in it for you:

•Attractive compensation package

•Recognition awards, company events, family events, university discount options and many more perks.

•Gender Pay Equality

Autoliv is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Autoliv does not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identify and/or expression, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Autoliv does business.