Senior HR Manager Job Description
Senior HR manager
provides employee relations expertise to assigned business managers ensuring compliance with company policies and state and federal employment laws while escalating concerns as appropriate.
Senior HR Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Manage core HR processes (i.e., performance management, all associate survey) for business unit
Participate in cross-functional business initiatives/projects, lending expertise on people related matters
Partner with associate relations specialist on AR escalated issues, exit interviews
Handle escalated HR questions/issues regarding compensation, benefits, or other HR services
Provide coaching to employees and management
Work closely with all Management in structuring and developing their respective teams
Drive the implementation of Personnel & Management Development tools and concepts (such as SCORE, Development plans, Talent Management and Succession Planning initiatives)
Work closely with the Talent and Reward CoEs in improving our processes
Maintain an annual communications calendar for benefits, compensation and service delivery, monthly summaries of key initiatives /deadlines
Develops the HR Strategy and manages the execution and control of the plan for the respective support areas in coordination with global partners where applicable
Senior HR Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior HR Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SPHR, PHR, PMP, HR, SHRM, PMI, SCP, CP, CMMI, US
Education for Senior HR Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior HR manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business, MBA, Business/Administration, Education, Management, Human Resources Management, Graduate, Human Resource Management, Psychology
Skills for Senior HR Manager
Desired skills for senior HR manager include:
Employee relations practices and investigation skills for employee relations cases
State and federal employment laws
Employee life cycle
Employment laws
HR policies
ADA
EEO
Reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance
FMLA
Legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees
Desired experience for senior HR manager includes:
Masters Degree in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Labor Relations, Organizational Psychology or Communications
Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in the HR field with a minimum of 5 years management experience
Experience in handling and resolving complex employee relations issues
Ability to impact the culture through talent management and coaching, with a focus on risk mitigation, employee engagement, diversity & inclusion, creating a valued and connected environment and organizational structure, and staff & leadership development
Ability to make autonomous decisions related to the support and service of the specific business client group/function
Manage staff workload and development for direct reports
Senior HR Manager Examples
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Senior HR Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a senior HR manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior HR manager
- Manages recruitment for the sites in the region, using preferred recruitment agencies, direct recruiting when required
- Identify change opportunities (people, process, structure) aligned to business goals across client groups
- As a business partner, contribute HR leadership and advice to assigned Executive management teams
- Develop HR plans to support strategic fiscal year business plans
- Support the initiation and implementation of cross functional projects
- Manage daily activity for Sales population with the supervision of an HR representive
- Monitor employee relations
- To work with the Head of HR to deliver a commercial, engaging & business aligned HR strategy and provide a generalist HR service to the Evans Head Office teams
- Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure that people issues are dealt with proactively and effectively
- Work closely with the business to develop a clear people plan for each department
Qualifications for senior HR manager
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with ability to apply quantitative analysis to HR programmatic outcomes and regularly supplied business reports to assess opportunity for continuous improvement
- Strong business acumen and people acumen, and ability to influence business leaders at an executive level
- Strategic thinking and execution ability, be a doer
- Proven results in an HR role within a Games Development or fast growing technology organisation
- Passion for being part of a world class development team
- Confident, friendly, supportive, style of management
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior HR manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior HR manager
- Deputise for the Head of HR when required
- Demonstrate resilience, maintaining objectivity under pressure
- Continually seek to develop own skills and knowledge
- Respond positively to and initiate change as appropriate
- Focus on achieving goals which develop the business and deliver a quality service to the line
- Identify and analyse problems to reach robust decisions
- Handling ongoing process improvements for global mobility services and global benefit programs leveraging Workday, external technology solutions
- Global administration of all of the company's leaves of absence to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations and ongoing applicability with the company's policies and programs
- Act as the primary point of contact for the Employee Relations team for issues and inquiries related to employee leaves, retirements, downsizing
- Establishes, builds and maintains strong relationships with key HR partners from all Practice Areas and Service Centers to ensure elements of HR are successfully coordinated to meet business needs
Qualifications for senior HR manager
- Substantial HR project management and org
- Articulate and dynamic professional, possessing a high degree of professionalism, integrity, emotional intelligence, and confidence
- Exceptional organizational skills to be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Works autonomously in a team environment
- 10+ years of recent, relevant HR/business experience in leading teams/ organizations
- Significant generalist HR experience within the IT industry
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior HR manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior HR manager
- Effectively onboard the Acquisition Leader including developing and driving the onboarding plan for the first 90 days in partnership with Line HR counterpart
- Enhance MS acquisition practice by building capability in assigned Knowledge Management areas based on business need and opportunity
- Manage vendor relationships and ensure cost effectiveness of service provision for tax services, immigration, relocation, shipping for international employees moving into / within Americas in partnership with global HR Rewards International Mobility team
- Develop Change Management strategy based on an understanding of the business drivers, program goals and objectives and stakeholders being impacted
- Work with Project Manager to ensure CM activities are aligned with the overall project timeline and key milestones, and are integrated with other work streams as required
- Identify the most expected and potential points of resistance to change
- Serve as the liaison between Human Resources and the Diversity Office
- Hiring and leading assigned team in delivering high-quality HR service at a country, regional and global level
- Oversees the efforts of the EMEA HRServices organization in the achievement of strategic and operational objectives
- Working knowledge and engagement of HRServices functions focusing on onboarding, employee life-cycle transactions and general HR administrative functions
Qualifications for senior HR manager
- Able to drive actions through influence and collaboration
- Capable of coaching senior managers
- Ability to operate in an international environment
- Comfortable with systems and processes usage
- Results driven with a strong “can do” attitude
- Flexible to travel (in EMEA)
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Senior HR Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a senior HR manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior HR manager
- Verifies that the appropriate improvement methodology and tools are being properly applied to all HR Continuous Improvement initiatives in which they are supporting & ensure project completeness
- Assures statistical methods of data collection and analysis are used in the evaluation of proposed process changes for all projects or initiatives
- Establishes and maintains an effective system of communication throughout the Project and with the other key project Stakeholder’s and key Customers
- Implement process improvements to improve program/project execution and overall quality/customer satisfaction
- Contributes to strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning leads the planning and scheduling of project deliverables, goals, and milestones
- Determines schedules for project/program implementation from design and development through deployment
- Develops project reports on a regular basis communicating resulting performance against all projects under their management
- Prepares, monitors, and reports on the overall continuous improvement metrics for all project for which the manage
- Contributes to the Continuous Improvement & Project Management team and ensures strong support as need for any initiative by the HR Director Continuous Improvement & Project Management and HR Service and Solutions Team
- Provide guidance and counsel to business leaders throughout all phases of the change management life cycle (ie structure changes and DHL cultural changes)
Qualifications for senior HR manager
- Project management experience (leading wide scope projects for a region) is required
- A true business partner at Director/VP level, able to translate the business priorities into effective HR programs, with focus on strengthening the organization and leadership
- Able to work in a complex matrix organization, dealing with the regional and Business Units' leaders, the colleagues within the Division and the HR centers of expertise at EMEIA level, which will require great influencing and leadership skills, strong process management skills
- Bachelors Degree with focus in Human Resource Management, Business Management, or similar
- The Data Governance Manager serves as a point of escalation for governance, data quality and protection issues and will work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory protection requirements support the strategic requirements of the department
- Collibra experience a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior HR manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior HR manager
- Provides HR consultancy and advice to line managers in the delivery of people-related activities organisational effectiveness programs, talent management, succession planning, performance management etc
- Manage, recommend and implement remedies on mid-level to complex employee relations
- Provides sound, constructive and timely consultation coaching and training to the business on a wide range of human resource topics
- Utilize a consulting process to identify department performance needs/gaps and recommend solutions to address business issues
- Drive HR standardizations, processes, and efficiencies across departments
- Drive management’s ownership for managing and developing their own people (e.g., individual development plans, performance management, corrective counseling, succession and talent management, and pay-for-performance)
- Drive manager accountability for employee engagement for the business unit, including development and execution of the action plans
- Work proactively with Shared Services leaders to understand and influence current and future states organizational structure
- Work proactively with managers and leaders to evaluate and prepare for future talent needs
- Drive organization change interventions (including structure, strategies and other L&D programs) to facilitate transition to future state
Qualifications for senior HR manager
- Prefer at least three (3) years of supervisory experience in a general capacity
- Expertise in acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, recruiting, HR generalist, compensation/stock, and/or organization development preferred
- Up to 25% of time may be required for domestic and international travel, sometimes with relatively short notice
- Experience of working across multi-cultural, organizational and geographic boundaries
- Business Process Outsourcing industry knowledge and experience
- Experience of facilitating Business Change