Director, HR Operations Cover Letter

I am excited to be applying for the position of director, HR operations. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for guidance and oversight of employees guiding benefits and compensation strategy, workers compensation claims, FMLA leave requests and ADA accommodation requests.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Familiarity with data warehouses, network and application security, and ETL (extract, transform, and load) tools
• Strong project management skills, including defining scope, managing budgets, driving deliverables, meeting deadlines and managing competing priorities
• Strong people and organizational skills to lead, build and develop a global delivery team and elevate the HR service delivery model in multiple, global locations
• Have a strategic mindset, understands the business and how HR can influence the business, but also enjoys rolling up his/her sleeves
• Have been successful in high-quality environments that have a focus on delivering best-of-class systems, programs and service and a commitment to continuous improvement
• Have a strong sense of pride of ownership and have a high quality and continuous improvement orientation
• Be highly collaborative, but also have courage and willingness to (appropriately) challenge assumptions
• Have demonstrated professionalism and possesses the sophistication and finesse to push through issues while maintaining relationships

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, HR operations position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for strategic leadership for team member HR Service Centers supporting life cycle transactions, Payroll, HR Compliance and Leave of Absence administration.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Demonstrated success leading the implementation of an HRIS or major HRIS upgrade
• Demonstrated experience setting and delivering against a vision for sustained system and process improvements in operations with high attention to detail
• Strong cross-functional leadership abilities combined with an analytical mindset
• Strong emotional intelligence, integrity, and pride in delivering HR services
• Lead transformation efforts to ensure best-in-class performance
• Experience in a sales and marketing oriented company
• Extensive experience working in labor relations
• Proven strategic HR business partner/ generalist competency, given demonstrated success in manufacturing environment AND supply chain management

I would like to submit my application for the director, HR operations opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership and oversight for all university benefits and payroll functions including: insurance, retirement, worker’s compensation, FMLA, prior state service, and ACA.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Be a logical, linear thinker, who is also creative and can develop solutions which require both capabilities
• Hold themselves and others to a high professional standard and show exceptional judgment, self-management and maturity
• Be results and customer oriented
• Be resourceful, thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
• Be curious and a student of our business, human resources and HR technology and regulations to both maintain current knowledge, but also to ensure compliance
• Be experienced managing, creating and effectively communicating the business case for investments and resources
• Technical understanding of HR Systems
• Drives effective execution, implementation, and on-going management of all cyclical HR program strategies and activities including, succession planning, diversity & inclusion, performance management, workforce planning, and talent review

I would like to submit my application for the director, HR operations opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for hR generalist support to supervisors and managers including policy interpretation, performance management, problem solving, FMLA, ADA, Worker Compensation and leave of absence administration.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Leads moderately complex Organization Design efforts
• Leads development of for the strategic workforce plan and associated cost of labor for assigned Company or Staff Agency
• Provides executive coaching to business leadership surrounding effective communication, leadership, change management, legal and risk compliance while improving and maintaining operational goals
• Collaborates with and provides business input and feedback to HR through the CoEs, Solutions Delivery and HRBP Executive to improve the effectiveness and relevance of HR policies, programs and services
• Manages and is accountable for the work of individual contributors
• Excellent problem solving skills with confidence to solve problems effectively
• Previous experience in human resources at a supervisory level
• Knowledge and understanding of employment practices and law in a highly complex and large organization

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, HR operations position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support on a spectrum of division-wide projects & initiatives including: payroll, compensation and benefits, equity management and reporting requirements.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Strongly prefer experience successfully establishing an HR Operations center
• Strong process orientation and experience
• Six Sigma experience and certification would be ideal
• Experience in a professional services organization and/or global environment, Federal Contracts, Military, DOD, Intelligence, Information Technology (or similar) would be an advantage
• Experience working with a deployed workforce is desirable
• Demonstrated business acumen and passion for strategic HR work, while maintaining high level execution of tactical HR process and deliverables
• Results oriented, services focused human resource professional with a verifiable track record
• Proven strategic and analytical team leader with experience in collaboration through partnership, facilitating discussions and influencing teams and organizations