Senior Human Resources Business Partner

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Human Resources Business Partner here at Southworth International Group, Inc. (SIGI). This role is responsible for both the strategic and operational deployment of HR initiatives at the Manila, AR site, partnering closely with site leaders and regional HR team members to support business outcomes. The Sr. HRBP provides leadership across talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, and change management, while ensuring compliance with labor laws and company policies.

This role proactively identifies people risks and opportunities, drives leadership capability, and fosters a high-performance culture aligned with organizational goals.

SIGI is the world’s largest manufacturer of ergonomic material handling equipment for vertical lifting and work positioning. Our products are designed to improve worker productivity while reducing the potential for worker injuries. Anywhere where workers are lifting and positioning items, handling pallets, working with parts in containers or transporting loads in a factory or warehouse, SIGI has a product to make the job faster, safer, and easier.

Reporting to the AMS HR Director, the Sr. HRBP drives both site-specific and enterprise HR initiatives, ensuring consistent and scalable process execution, in alignment with the broader SIGI HR portfolio. This role provides site leadership for payroll administration and accuracy, ensuring compliance with wage and hour regulations, and company policies. The Sr. HRBP supports compensation analysis and partners closely with site leaders and the People Operations Sr.

HR Generalist to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing, resolve payroll-related issues, and support audits and reporting requirements.

This role is responsible for translating SIGI’s enterprise talent and workforce strategies into effective site-level execution, while elevating site insights, workforce realities, and manufacturing perspectives into the Americas HR strategy. The Sr. HRBP plays a critical role in shaping organizational culture, strengthening leadership capability, managing and developing talent, and driving strategic HR initiatives that support business growth and operational excellence.

This position requires an experienced HR expert who thinks critically and acts strategically while ensuring disciplined operational execution. The Sr. HRBP leads manufacturing-focused people strategies aligned to business objectives, workforce capacity planning, talent pipelines, succession planning, and payroll governance, in partnership with the AMS HR team, while contributing to AMS-wide HR strategies and continuous improvement initiatives.

Overall success is demonstrated when the Senior HR Business Partner consistently delivers measurable business impact, workforce stability, compliant operations, and strong leadership capability, including a staffed, skilled, stable, and administratively reliable workforce that enables the manufacturing organization to meet its business commitments , while serving as a strategic Americas HR team member and connector between site execution and enterprise talent strategy—ultimately enabling sustainable SIGI business growth and operational excellence.

This onsite position is based at the primary manufacturing facility in Manila, AR.

• Serves as the onsite HR leader and trusted people strategy partner for the manufacturing site, partnering with the Director of Manufacturing Operations and senior site leadership.
• Shapes and executes site-level people strategy aligned to enterprise business objectives, operational priorities, and workforce needs.
• Acts as a trusted partner to leaders on organizational effectiveness, workforce risk, talent strategy, and culture transformation.
• Influences business decisions by providing forward-looking insights on workforce trends, capacity risks, engagement, and leadership capability.