Human Resources Manager

Job Overview

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 responsible for 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.

Onsite, Lancaster, TX, Distribution Center

• 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.
• Leverages best practices and creates a culture of collaboration within the region/group and nationally.
• Executes HR programs within the facility, ensuring alignment with HR processes and programs.
• Collaborates with HR colleagues to share best practices and leverage successes across the company, supporting peer networks.
• Leverages a network for learning when encountering new challenges and manages personal development following changes to company, business, and/or HR strategy; participates in 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 and below the Site Director level, with the goal of making others successful.
• Ensures associate questions are promptly and courteously resolved.
• Participates and collaborates in pre-shift, supervisor, management, and staff meetings.
• Identifies HR and Operations metrics tracked throughout the organization, derives insights from metrics, reports insights to business leaders, and uses those insights to solve business problems and improve processes.
• Implements 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 frontline leadership, and proactively identifies next-generation leaders; executes 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.
• Assesses and monitors associate engagement on a proactive, ongoing basis; implements associate engagement surveys and action plans; identifies trends and works to systematically address disengagement issues.
• Addresses associate concerns at the local level, conducts investigations, and facilitates problem resolution.
• Provides leaders and associates with coaching and resources to 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 HR could improve implementation of HR programs.
• Completes reports and information requests accurately and timely.
• Executes core annual programs such as performance objectives and goal setting, performance evaluations, compensation planning, talent assessment, succession planning, wellness, and annual enrollment.
• Executes local programs for areas such as talent development, engagement, recognition, training, wellness, and labor…