Director, Human Resources

About the role

As the Director, HR Corporate Functions, you will serve as a strategic business partner to Corporate leadership (Finance, IT, Legal, and other corporate functions) and a change leader for OBE's transformation and growth agenda. This role designs and deploys the people strategy that enables organizational effectiveness, clarity, and talent readiness across corporate teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation & org design: Shape corporate functions' future-state organization (structures, spans/layers, operating mechanisms), aligning roles and capabilities to growth priorities; steward change management plans that build adoption and resilience.
• Partner with corporate leaders: Serve as primary HR advisor to Finance, IT, Legal, and other corporate function leaders; translate business goals into people strategies that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and employee experience.
• Talent strategy & workforce planning: Build succession pipelines for functional leadership; design career paths and competency models; drive hiring plans and onboarding that accelerate ramp time for corporate roles.
• Performance & culture: Embed performance culture (OKRs, manager effectiveness), and recognition programs that reinforce operational excellence.
• Leadership development: Sponsor development programs (including high-potential and early-career pathways) tailored to corporate functions; champion diverse slates and equitable advancement.
• Rewards & job architecture alignment: Partner with Total Rewards/Compensation to align roles, job codes, bands, and pay transparency requirements; ensure consistency with OBE policies and UKG/Greenhouse integrations.
• Employee relations & risk management: Guide complex ER matters, investigations, and escalations across distributed sites; coach leaders to resolve issues proactively and compliantly.
• HR operations excellence: Drive process improvements across recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews, and HR systems for corporate functions; optimize integrations (UKG ↔ Greenhouse) supporting clean data and reporting.
• Stakeholder engagement & communications: Create clear, credible communications during change; facilitate leader roundtables and town halls; measure adoption and impact.

Requirements

• 12+ years progressive HR experience, with 5+ years directly partnering with corporate/functional organizations (multi-region or multi-site).
• Proven success leading enterprise or business-unit transformations (org design, change management, capability building), ideally within manufacturing/distribution or building products.
• Demonstrated impact on organizational effectiveness (e.g., talent strategy, manager capability, performance mechanisms).
• Strong business acumen and data fluency (workforce analytics, compensation/market data, performance metrics); skilled at converting insights into action.
• Solid experience in a matrix, functionally organized enterprise with proven success partnering & delivering results within and outside direct reporting lines and functional groups in a positive and collaborative way.
• Exceptional influence, executive communication, and stakeholder management; experienced coaching senior leaders through change.
• Bachelor's degree in HR/Business (Master's preferred); SHRM-SCP/SPHR a plus.

Benefits

• Industry competitive benefits at the lowest cost to the employee.
• PTO and holidays, including floating holidays you can choose.
• Pay-for-performance culture with potential for annual raises and bonuses.
• Training and development to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed.