About This Role
This highly visible HR leadership role involves translating business and people priorities into practical HR programs and measurable outcomes. The HR Director will partner with leaders across the organization, providing leadership in employee relations, talent management, workforce planning, learning and development, employee engagement, and regulatory compliance. The role also includes leading and developing HR team members and strengthening HR capabilities, processes, and technology.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the AVP, HR and business leaders to translate established HR strategy and workforce priorities into practical programs and measurable outcomes
- Serve as a trusted HR advisor to leaders, providing sound guidance on employee, talent, organizational, and workforce matters
- Lead, coach, and develop assigned HR team members, initially including one direct report
- Lead employee relations matters, including workplace investigations, conflict resolution, performance concerns, corrective action, accommodations, leaves, and separations
- Support workforce planning activities and identify staffing, capability, and organizational needs
- Lead the execution of performance and talent management processes, including goal setting, performance evaluations, talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, and leadership development
- Develop and support employee engagement, recognition, retention, and culture initiatives
- Analyze employee feedback and workforce trends and translate insights into practical action plans
- Oversee HR programs related to leave, learning and development, employee events, and other people practices
- Help ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including EEO, ADA, FMLA, wage and hour, workers
- Use HR systems, workforce data, dashboards, reports, and metrics to identify trends, evaluate program effectiveness, and support informed decision-making
- Lead HR projects and initiatives, establishing clear objectives, implementation plans, measures of success, and stakeholder communication
- Identify opportunities to strengthen HR processes, service delivery, operational efficiency, and employee and leader experience
- Assess evolving team capacity and capability needs and recommend staffing, development, automation, or other resource solutions
- Stay current on HR trends, employment law, regulatory developments, technology, and evolving HR best practices
- Champion the responsible adoption of Microsoft Copilot and other approved AI tools to improve HR service delivery, analysis, decision support, productivity, and the employee and leader experience while maintaining appropriate confidentiality, data privacy, accuracy, and human oversight
- Lead and support special HR initiatives based on evolving business and workforce needs
