What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Director of Employee Relations position at AccruePartners?
The Team You Will Be Joining
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- Join the HR leadership team of a large, highly regulated organization supporting more than 5,500 employees across multiple operational locations.
- Lead a team of People Business Partners responsible for employee relations, investigations, performance management, and leadership coaching.
- Partner closely with executive leadership, operational leaders, legal counsel, and HR peers to drive consistent people practices across the organization.
- Be part of a collaborative HR function that values visible leadership, strong business partnership, and proactive problem-solving.
- Opportunity to own both the strategic and operational aspects of employee relations while influencing enterprise-wide people initiatives.
- High visibility with senior leadership through executive coaching, organizational trend analysis, leadership training, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ownership of key talent processes, including performance management, talent calibration, succession planning, and leadership development.
- The ability to shape employee relations strategy, strengthen leadership capability, and drive consistency across a complex organization.
- Exposure to a fast-paced, people-first environment where HR plays a highly visible role in supporting business success.
- Onsite 5x in Charlotte, NC
- Serve as the senior leader responsible for driving consistent, compliant, and effective employee relations practices across the organization.
- Lead strategy for employee relations, performance management, succession planning, and talent calibration while helping leaders make sound people decisions.
- Identify trends across employee relations activity, develop proactive solutions, and implement initiatives that improve leadership effectiveness while reducing organizational risk.
- Partner with legal counsel and business leaders to ensure compliance with employment laws, company policies, and applicable labor agreements.
- Build scalable employee relations programs, leadership training, and performance management processes that support long-term organizational success.
- Seven or more years of progressive Human Resources experience with a strong focus on employee relations, investigations, performance management, and leadership coaching.
- Previous leadership experience managing HR professionals, Employee Relations teams, HR Business Partners, or similar functions.
- Demonstrated success handling complex workplace investigations, grievance resolution, corrective action, performance issues, and executive-level coaching.
- Experience supporting organizations within highly regulated, multi-site, unionized, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, healthcare, utilities, or other operationally complex environments is highly preferred.
- Experience leading performance review cycles, talent calibration, succession planning, and enterprise talent initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of employment law, HR systems, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, along with excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
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