Manager Human Resources - Lancaster, TX DC - Onsite

Manager Human Resources - Lancaster, TX DC - Onsite

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Onsite, Lancaster, TX, Distribution Center

The Human Resources Manager is a business partner to operational leadership and is responsible for leading, implementing and executing the organization’s HR strategy, key projects, and initiatives within the facility/group. Reporting to the Regional Sr. HR Manager, the HR Manager leads the facility/group HR team and is effective execution of human resources functions, such as Talent Development, Talent Selection, Workforce Planning, Engagement, Recognition, Performance Management, Organizational Development, Training, Associate Relations, Compensation, Benefits, Wellness, Risk Safety, Labor Relations, Sustainability and Philanthropy.

While providing on‑site support for our 50+ distribution centers, the HR Operations team ensures effective execution of human resources strategies in the aforementioned areas and plays a pivotal role in our current transformation journey.

• Leads the HR function for a facility, provides functional HR expertise, plans and executes on key projects.
• Directly manages a team of HR Business Partners and associates within the facility and drives performance in the local HR teams, as applicable.
• Responsible for leveraging best practices and creating a culture of collaboration within the region/group and nationally.
• Executes HR programs within the facility and ensures alignment with HR processes and programs.
• Collaborates with HR colleagues to share best practices and leverage successes across the company, supporting peer networks.
• Leverages network for learning when encountering a new challenge. Manages personal development following changes to company, business and/or HR strategy and participates in the development of HR colleagues.
• Builds effective working relationships with organizational leaders, balancing facility/group needs with HR guidelines when making decisions and providing transparency into work.
• Leverages a deep understanding of business needs and participates in solving business problems within the facility through the talent lens.
• Provides coaching to leaders and individual contributors at Site Director level and below, with the goal of making others successful.
• Ensures associate questions are promptly and courteously resolved.
• Participates and collaborates in pre‑shifts, supervisor, management, and staff meetings.
• Identifies HR and Operations metrics tracked throughout the organization, derives insights from metrics, reports those insights to business leaders, and uses them to solve business problems and improve processes.
• Responsible for implementing the workforce and talent agenda, creating a compelling experience that attracts the right people in a competitive market and drives enterprise productivity, in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
• Forecasts current and future talent needs for the facility/group, maintains and updates a succession plan for front‑line leadership, and proactively identifies next‑generation leaders.
• Executes the annual talent review process for the facility/group.
• Advises leaders on effective onboarding strategies and plans to ensure successful assimilation of new hires.
• Delivers training programs.
• Responsible for being a steward of the company culture.
• Assesses and monitors associate engagement on a proactive, ongoing basis; implements engagement surveys and action plans; identifies trends and systematically addresses disengagement issues.
• Addresses associate concerns at the local level, conducts investigations, and facilitates problem resolution.
• Provides leaders and associates with coaching and resources to help them resolve and prevent interpersonal and team conflicts and adapt to different associate and leadership styles.
• Drives change management among leaders to ensure strategic changes that impact associates are rolled out in an engaging, well‑communicated, and reinforced way.
• Implements HR initiatives and programs in new ways to adapt to changing associate and business needs; seeks feedback from business leaders and associates on how…