Director, People & Culture Business Partner

The Opportunity: 

Mattel is seeking a Director, People & Culture Business Partner to serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders within the Global Brand organization. This role is critical in translating enterprise and brand strategies into integrated people and culture priorities that strengthen organizational capability, accelerate leadership effectiveness, and enable long-term business growth.

Operating with a strong enterprise mindset, you will balance the needs of the Global Brand organization with broader Mattel priorities to drive consistency, scalability, and impact across the business. You will play a key role in shaping a high-performance, inclusive culture while building the organizational capability required to win in a fast-moving, consumer-facing global environment.

Based in El Segundo, California, and reporting to the SVP, People Business Partner, this role is designed as a key rotational leadership opportunity, offering exposure to enterprise-level strategy, senior leadership, and broad People & Culture practices across Mattel’s global ecosystem.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, shaping and influencing business strategy through an integrated People & Culture lens.
• Define and drive a forward-looking People & Culture strategy aligned to Global Brand and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Lead enterprise-level talent strategies, including succession planning, leadership development, and workforce planning to build a strong and diverse leadership pipeline.
• Build organizational capability by diagnosing gaps and implementing solutions across leadership effectiveness, team performance, and operating models.
• Lead complex organizational design and transformation initiatives that enable business evolution, innovation, and growth.
• Coach senior leaders to operate with an enterprise mindset, strengthening decision-making, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Anticipate and address organizational and talent risks through data-driven insights and proactive planning.
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across functions and geographies to resolve complex challenges and drive strategic initiatives.
• Partner with Centers of Excellence to design and deliver best-in-class solutions across performance management, compensation, employee relations, and leadership development.
• Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture that reflects Mattel’s values and drives engagement, creativity, and accountability at scale.