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June 14, 2011
Alcoa has a new Human Resources director for Latin America and the Caribbean
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Vânia Akabane has the challenge to lead and maintain the consolidation of one of the most efficient human resources models in Brazil
Executive Vânia Akabane has just taken over as the director of Human Resources for Alcoa Latin America and the Caribbean, which is presided over by Franklin L. Feder. The position was previously occupied by Silvia Dias, who is leaving the function after six years to become a human resources consultant in the coaching area for Alcoa.
With a degree in Production Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), and a graduate degree in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Vânia Akabane’s responsibilities will include defining HR strategies, policies and programs in order to maintain and update the management model and lead one of Alcoa’s biggest challenges currently: to increase levels of commitment in order to guarantee a better performance and raise the retention indices of people.
Vania has been with Alcoa since 2007 and worked as the company’s Talent Management and Organizational Effectiveness CoE manager, responsible for consolidating the Alcoa University, implementing the performance management cycle, the competences model, the Development Week, leadership development programs and all HR strategic planning activities.
Before joining the Alcoa team the executive worked for more than 10 years in the consultancy area of Accenture, where she had the opportunity to lead complex global and local organizational change projects, when she was greatly exposed to all processes relating to people management. Vânia started her career as a trainee with Credicard, in the finance, credit, collection and human resources areas.
About Alcoa
Alcoa Alumínio S.A. is a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc., the world’s leading company in the production of primary and transformed aluminum and alumina. The Company has 59,000 employees in 31 countries and for the ninth consecutive year is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Alcoa has been in Latin America and the Caribbean since the end of the 1950s and has some 7,000 employees in the region, with operations in Brazil, Jamaica and Surinam.
In Brazil the company operates in the whole of the aluminum production chain from bauxite mining to the production of transformed products. Alcoa has seven production units and three offices in the states of Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and the Federal District. The company also has shareholdings in four hydroelectric power stations: Machadinho and Barra Grande on the border of the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul; Serra do Facão in Goiás; and Estreito, between Maranhão and Tocantins. In 2010 Alcoa recorded revenues of US$ 1.6 billion in Brazil and was elected the Sustainable Company of the Year by Guia Exame de Sustentabilidade [Exame’s Sustainability Guide].
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