Interim & fractional HR leadership
Stepping in as Head of HR or Chief People Officer while a business scales, integrates or replaces its people leader — with a handover plan from day one.
Madrid · Europe · Latin America
Natalia
Dominguez
International HR Director · Chartered FCIPD
I build people functions that work the same way in every country a business operates in.
Twenty years of HR leadership across Europe, Central Asia and Latin America — from a 500-person regional build-out to a 1,000-person Latin American mandate to a scale-up that needed a management team in ninety days.
20+Years in international HR
30+Countries covered
1000+Employees under mandate
5Working languages
3Regions: Europe, Central Asia, Latin America
What I am brought in to do
Six problems I have solved more than once
Most of my work starts the same way: a business is growing, integrating or entering markets faster than its people function can follow. These are the mandates I take.
Multi-country HR build-out
Standing up HR business partnering, centres of excellence and country-level processes in markets where the company has no framework yet — including hiring through an employer of record where there is no entity.
Total rewards under volatility
Grading, sales incentives, salary review and benefits designed to hold their value through devaluation and inflation — built for Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Eurasia.
Talent & leadership development
Talent reviews, individual development plans and executive team work — from C-suite dysfunction analysis to development programmes covering a thousand blue-collar employees.
People analytics & HR systems
HR analytics that inform organisational decisions rather than decorate a deck, plus HRIS migration, systems consolidation and process automation.
M&A people integration & mobility
Holding engagement and employee relations steady through acquisitions, and rebuilding the global mobility function across a region.
Coverage
Thirty markets, three regions, one standard
Multi-country HR is not one policy repeated thirty times. It is thirty legal, tax and cultural realities held to a single corporate standard. This is where I have done it.
Europe
ESSpain · base
+ EUMulti-country mandate
Central Asia & Eurasia
TRTürkiye
AZAzerbaijan
MNMongolia
RURussia
+ 6Post-Soviet states
Latin America
BRBrazil
COColombia
ARArgentina
VEVenezuela
+ 16Regional footprint
Named markets are those I led or delivered in directly. Regional mandates covered the full country footprint of each business — payroll, benefits, employee relations and reward, market by market.
Track record
Twenty years, seven organisations
2023 — now
DUAL
Head of HR, Europe · Specialist underwriting
Built and ran a commercially aligned people strategy for the European business, partnering with senior leadership to integrate multiple operating companies into one organisation. Designed the talent and leadership approach behind a high-performance culture, and applied HR practice to AI-driven environments in performance management and people surveys.
- People strategy
- M&A integration
- Leadership development
- Employee experience
2021 — 2023Held in parallel
Angara
Chief People Officer · AI decarbonisation technology
Interim people leader for the scale-up proposition of an ESG technology business. Completed the management team with two C-level hires inside the first three months, rebuilt people strategy, policy and process for sustainable growth, created the total reward approach and designed a development roadmap for the leadership team.
- Scale-up HR
- Executive hiring
- Total rewards
- Interim leadership
2021 — 2023Held in parallel
Atlas
HR Service Delivery Manager, Europe & Central Asia · Employer of record
Ran HR operations for client organisations hiring across Europe and Central Asia — the legal, benefits and payroll questions that arrive the moment a company employs someone in a country where it has no entity. Consolidated several platforms into a single system, supported process automation, and wrote the operating procedures for each new country of presence.
- Employer of record
- Payroll & benefits
- Multi-country compliance
- Systems consolidation
2018 — 2021
Aggreko
Deputy Head of HR, Latin America · 20+ countries, 1,000+ employees
Selected through the global leaders' development programme to take on the group's most operationally complex region. Established HR business partnering and centres of excellence, implemented the Latin American talent development process, ran cross-country research to set up tax-compliant payroll across the region, transformed global mobility and carried accountability for HR analytics — through the pandemic and through four of the world's most volatile currency markets.
- Regional HR build-out
- Payroll compliance
- HRIS migration
- Global mobility
- COVID policy
2013 — 2018
Aggreko
Head of HR, Eurasia · 10+ countries, 500+ employees
Headed HR for a newly incorporated region spanning the post-Soviet states, Türkiye and Mongolia while the business grew fourfold — from 200 MW to 850 MW of installed capacity — against an energy crisis and unstable currencies. Scaled headcount from 40 to 500 with a recruiting engine built to last, held engagement and employee relations steady through acquisitions in Azerbaijan and Türkiye, and redeveloped the corporate total rewards programme for rapidly devaluating markets.
- Regional HR leadership
- Hypergrowth recruiting
- M&A
- Grading & incentives
- HR analytics
2011 — 2013
European Pension Fund
HR Director · Non-state financial start-up
Hired more than 200 employees across 30 regions in just over a year. Created and led the recruitment, learning and development, HR administration and payroll teams, and wrote the policies and handbooks from scratch, reporting directly to general management and shareholders.
- Start-up HR
- Volume hiring
- Policy design
2009 — 2010
Morgan Stanley
HR Associate · Investment banking
Graduate recruitment and performance assessment, HR administration, payroll and benefits, and global mobility support including visa processing.
2004 — 2008
Citi
Recruiter, Onsite Manager · Corporate banking
Hired, onboarded and managed outsourced employees, trained hiring managers on the recruitment process, and ran HR data analysis on market compensation, recruitment performance and cost reduction.
Evidence
What the work moved
Eurasia · 2013—2018
A region that grew fourfold, staffed on time
Five years of HR leadership through an energy crisis and currency instability, with the recruiting engine and reward framework built to keep up with the business.
Latin America · 2018—2021
Twenty-plus countries on one talent process
Each mark is a market brought onto a single talent development and reward standard, covering more than a thousand employees.
Scale-up · 2021—2023
A management team in ninety days
Two C-level hires closed in the first three months as interim Chief People Officer, followed by a rebuilt people strategy, reward approach and leadership development roadmap.
Credentials
Qualified, chartered, multilingual
Education & certification
- Chartered status Chartered FCIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development — Fellow
- 2017 — 2019 MSc International Human Resource Management Kingston University London · CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma
- 2000 — 2004 BSc Economics Lomonosov Moscow State University
- 2021 Human Resources Analytics University of California — Coursera certification
- 2021 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace ESSEC Business School — Coursera certification
Languages
- English Full professional
- Spanish Full professional
- Portuguese Full professional
- Russian Full professional
- French Professional working
Systems
- Workday
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Excel DAX
- PowerPoint
- Word
Questions
Before you write
Who is Natalia Dominguez?
An international HR director based in Madrid, with 20 years leading human resources across Europe, Central Asia and Latin America. Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, currently Head of HR for Europe at DUAL, previously Chief People Officer of a technology scale-up, HR service delivery manager for an employer-of-record platform across Europe and Central Asia, and Deputy Head of HR for Latin America at Aggreko.
Which regions and countries does she cover?
Europe, Central Asia and Latin America. Regional mandates have covered more than 30 markets, including Spain, Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Russia and the post-Soviet states, and in Latin America Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela. She works from Madrid across five languages and every relevant time zone.
What kind of work does she take on?
Head of HR and Chief People Officer mandates, permanent or interim, and advisory work on people strategy, multi-country HR build-out, total rewards, talent and leadership development, people analytics, HRIS implementation, employer-of-record and global employment operations, global mobility, and HR integration through mergers and acquisitions. For current availability, write directly.
What languages does she work in?
English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian at full professional level, and French at professional working level.
What are her qualifications?
Chartered FCIPD — the fellowship grade of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. A Master's in International Human Resource Management from Kingston University London with the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma, and a Bachelor's in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Certified in Human Resources Analytics (University of California) and Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (ESSEC Business School).
What kind of organisations does she work with?
Multinational groups in insurance, energy and financial services, and venture-stage companies moving from start-up to scale-up. The populations range from executive teams to blue-collar workforces of more than a thousand people.
Contact
Tell me where the business is going next.
Most conversations start the same way: a market entry, an integration, or a people leader leaving. Any of those is a good reason to write.
info@nataliadominguezhr.com
- Based inMadrid, Spain — working across EMEA and LATAM
- LanguagesEnglish · Spanish · Portuguese · Russian · French
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