Director Human Resources, North America

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Our client is a global, industrial manufacturer with their HQ in Greater Cleveland, OH. They provide a unique and growing niche in the marketplace. Focusing on continuous improvement, innovation and environmental responsibility, they have strong company performance, stable customer base and offer great opportunity for career growth.

You will have oversight in North America for HR strategy and operations and direction of employee experience, providing HR Leadership across business units and geographies. You will support and partner with Business leaders to implement and execute programs and processes at both a strategic and hands-on level.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead HR operations and processes within North America
• Partner and strategize with Business Leaders to support a culture of engagement, safety, performance management and continuous improvement
• Works with site management and HR by providing coaching and support in all areas of talent management, including selection, assessment, development, deployment, engagement and retention of talent
• Assesses, prioritizes, and supports workforce needs and HR operations
• Ensure consistent adoption of company policies, guidelines, and practices by managers and employees
• Lead role in ongoing assessment of HR process effectiveness and identification, implementation of improvement opportunities and solution
• Creates/drives annual performance reviews, compensation and succession planning processes
• Interfaces with the Company’s external auditors on matters of routine audits and compliance reviews
• Analyze and monitor HR performance metrics and KPIs

Experience and Skillset

• Bachelor’s Degree, advanced degree or professional certification preferred
• 7 years HR experience with multi-sites in a manufacturing environment is required
• Experience providing support in North America (US, Canada & Mexico)
• Lean manufacturing experience, certification highly preferred
• Data-driven and uses BI Tools to measure/manage and lead
• Progressive responsibility and hands-on experience managing core HR functions
• Ensures legal compliance related to Human Resource practices
• Excellent teamwork, problem solving, change-management skills required
• Uncompromisable integrity
• Able to handle confidential and sensitive information with the utmost discretion and professionalism. Strong business acumen.

Work Environment

This position is onsite and requires the willingness to travel 25%, to sites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico as needed.