Manager, Human Resources Business Partner, Northern Region

The Team

The Human Resources team supports our employee population by providing the structure, care, and development needed for individual employees to be successful in their own careers, which in turn contributes to the overall growth and success of the Company. The Human Resources department is organized in three strategic pillars:

• Compensation and Benefits: payroll, health and welfare benefits, retirement plan services, and immigration.
• Human Resources Business Partners: performance management, employee relations, recruiting and retaining talent, coaching and counseling.
• Talent Development: corporate social responsibility, Diversity, Inclusion & Family, learning and leadership development, internal communications, and employee engagement.

As the HR Business Partner, you will contribute to the overall department strategy in a Generalist role capacity. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of the recruiting process, fostering, and maintaining employee relationships through coaching, advising, and negotiating in conflict situations, and assisting in organizational effectiveness efforts. You will deliver HR solutions in several key areas, including recruitment and hiring, internal mobility, employee relations, performance management, labor law compliance, HR operations, and skill development and training.

As a strategic member of a cross functional Retail team, you will work closely with the store leadership teams and employees within the Northern Region, as well as partner with other members of the HR team, working collaboratively across all levels to assist in the implementation of people-related services, HR policies, practices, and procedures. The HR Business Partner will support the Northern Region, which currently includes 9 store locations and approximately 140 retail employees.

This position is located on site in our New York Corporate Office.

• Serves as a strategic HR Business Partner for the Northern Region.
• Provides hands-on HR support by maintaining both a physical and virtual presence in the respective locations. Is a regular contributor to regional meetings, as well as management/staff meetings at the store-level.
• Is aware of all business issues and priorities, and provides focused support, coaching, and guidance to management.
• Manages employee relations for the store locations and recommends appropriate employment action to maintain a productive, positive work environment. Empowers store management to manage employee disciplinary actions to ensure consistent, uniform, and fair application of company policies and procedures and governmental laws. With general supervision, conducts investigations, recommends solutions to issues, counsels’ employees, advises managers on discipline process and facilitates dispute resolution.
• Responsible for HR headcount budget, new headcount requests, and maintenance of organizational charts for region; partners pro-actively with Talent Acquisition Manager on full cycle recruiting processes to meet the various staffing needs within the Region.
• Responsible for optimization and implementation of company talent acquisition and management programs and manages in-house talent systems and vendor relationships in collaboration with other HRBP’s to ensure that we hire key talent with a focus on the candidate experience. Ensures all regular vacant positions are posted internally and externally, and provides analysis of recruiting processes, employee retention statistics, and other associated HR metrics.
• Conducts regular touch base meetings with store leaders to provide HR strategic workforce updates: reviewing store talent, succession planning, provide management team with coaching recommendations to optimize business…