Director, Human Resources

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Job Category:
Human Resources

Work Location:

Hybrid

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Location:

Lenexa, KS, US

Job Type: Full Time

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At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

Shape the People Agenda. Enable business performance. Protect our license to operate.

The HR Director, North America is a pivotal leadership role at the intersection of business strategy, people, organization, and risk. As the senior People partner to the North America Leadership Team (NAM LT), you will help shape and deliver the regional People Agenda, translate business priorities into practical workforce and organization choices, and ensure leaders have the capabilities, talent, and culture required to perform and grow.

This is a true “both/and” role: a commercially minded, forward-looking business partner and a highly credible HR professional with command of the core disciplines that matter in the North American landscape. You will combine strategic influence with operational rigor across U.S. and Canadian employment practices, employee and labor relations, benefits, payroll governance, fiduciary responsibilities, policy, and compliance.

You will be expected to challenge constructively, coach with impact, make sound decisions in complex situations, and turn enterprise People priorities into outcomes that work for NAM. The role also drives greater consistency and harmonization of HR processes across the United States and Canada while respecting local legal, regulatory, labor, and business realities.

• Shape and deliver the NAM People Agenda. Partner with the NAM LT to convert business strategy into integrated priorities for organization, workforce, leadership, talent, capabilities, culture, and engagement.
• Serve as a trusted and courageous business partner. Bring insight, independent judgment, and a strong people perspective to leadership decisions; coach senior leaders and challenge constructively when needed.
• Enable organizational performance and transformation. Lead organization design, workforce planning, succession, talent reviews, performance management, and change initiatives that improve effectiveness and deliver sustainable business results.
• Build leadership and talent strength. Identify critical roles and capability gaps, strengthen succession pipelines, accelerate development, and partner with Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development on high-quality solutions.
• Foster a high-performing and inclusive culture. Translate Corbion’s values into everyday leadership practices, strengthen accountability and engagement, and help create an environment where people and performance thrive together.
• Lead the core HR agenda with your team of HR professionals. Maintain effective employee lifecycle policies and practices and advise on complex employee relations, performance, investigations, disciplinary matters, conflict resolution, and organizational change. Offer opportunities to grow, develop and deliver for members within the HR team.
• Safeguard compliance and sound governance. Monitor federal, state, provincial, and local employment requirements across the U.S. and Canada; regularly review policies and practices, assess risk, and ensure appropriate controls, documentation, and escalation.
• Provide labor relations leadership. Shape union and collective bargaining strategy, support negotiations, maintain constructive labor relationships, and prepare the organization for emerging labor issues.
• Oversee benefits and payroll governance. Guide the strategy, design, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness of competitive benefits programs and ensure timely, accurate, and…