Senior Director, Human Resources

Our client negotiates the procurement of food, packaging, non-food and equipment items for over 20,000 restaurants and is seeking a Senior Director of Human Resources. This position is responsible for strategy, development, deployment, and maintenance of leadership, career development, organizational effectiveness, and engagement tools/processes across the organization.

Accountability focuses in these key areas:

• Current and deep knowledge in all matters of Compensation and Benefits, including executive compensation programs and innovative incentive design
• Developing, delivering and building capabilities, processes & tools for broad-based functional talent development
• Technology ownership and hands-on responsibility for HR systems, including Performance Management, Engagement, LMS and all other plug ins.
• Partnering with HR and Department leadership to conceptualize, develop and implement organizational strategy, structure and culture
• Providing deep talent management expertise, thought leadership and strategic insights regarding the development, and deployment of talent management frameworks and related tools including competency models, critical experience frameworks, and talent assessment
• Championing and improving the WC2 culture by leveraging organizational effectiveness tools and processes such as employee engagement surveys, team/individual assessments and associated action planning process

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with vendor partners in support of best-in-class, cost-effective, enterprise-wide development solutions.
• Designs, develops, and facilitates innovative leadership development and succession planning programs for all levels of the organization
• Designs, develops, and executes employee engagement efforts
• Supports HR leadership in the development and review of organizational strategy, annual priorities and execution plans including presentations, planning calendars and project plans.
• Special projects as required.
• Continually assesses leadership development, learning programs and solutions to ensure continuous improvement and relevance to the needs of the changing business.
• Provides thought leadership and best practices in the talent management, engagement, and DEI&B spaces.
• Creates, develops, and executes the Talent Management brand and a consistent marketing and communication strategy to promote individual/leadership development and learning.
• Uses instructional design methods, including conceptual knowledge and application of adult learning theory, in producing relevant training materials.
• Partners and builds relationships with management to gain a thorough understanding or work processes and scenarios to support team development and drive continuous improvement.
• Researches, assesses, and selects third party providers for talent management, learning and engagement tools and processes following make-buy analysis.
• Utilizes a variety of training methods, mediums, and formats to develop high-performance employees and leaders throughout the organization.
• Works with identified top talent and high potential employees to accelerate their leadership development and to prepare them for roles of greater responsibility.
• Serves as technological lead on all HR systems – requiring proficiency, expert knowledge and learning aptitude.
• Provides change management leadership and communication support for organizational/department initiatives and projects.
• Provides high quality internal consulting to HR & business leaders to identify gaps and opportunities for development and leads the design and execution of programs/experiences to build team and individual capabilities.
• Designs, develops, and executes organizational diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B) efforts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Must interface effectively and communicate convincingly with professionals at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Prefer demonstrated Coaching and facilitation experience.
• Strong analytical and modeling capability utilizing business intelligence and benchmarking data to create useful information and dashboards.
• Health and safety experience
• Current Compensation and benefits design and execution experience; executive compensation experience
• Strong capability to configure and leverage core HR systems including: HRMS, Performance Management, Learning Management/Content Creation, Engagement, Health & Safety
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented, excellent planning and organization skills, strong project management skills, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Minimum 5 years HR Generalist/Business Partner experience preferably in a multi-site environment.
• Ability to think strategically and critically in developing practical solutions.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive talent management and learning and development experience. Demonstrated ability to manage a budget and manage a team.
• Experience with planning, creating, implementing and/or managing succession planning and leadership development programs.
• Advanced training and presentation development and delivery skills.
• Prefer demonstrated experience with competency modeling.
• Prefer experience with ADP HRMS, Cornerstone Performance Management, BizLibrary LMS and Workday/Peakon Engagement platforms.
• Ability to train and coach others.
• Executive-level presentation skills / facilitation skills
• Proficient use of Microsoft 360 Suite including: Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Word,
• Adept at establishing partnerships and building relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Minimum 3 years team leadership experience with demonstrated capability to identify, grow and retain talent.

EDUCATION

An undergraduate degree required, preferably in Business, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or related discipline.

An MBA or other advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or related discipline preferred.

COMPENSATION

A competitive compensation package, including base salary and incentive bonus will be offered

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