HR Manager - Watertown/Albany

About the role

This role is ON-SITE 100%. To be considered, you must live within 45 minutes of either the Watertown or Albany locations. Essential duties include ensuring a safety culture, advocating for employee experience, facilitating training, supporting recruitment, and managing disciplinary actions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a genuine safety culture fostering employee well-being through engagement and leadership accountability.
• Challenge leaders to set the right tone for safety and hold them accountable for proactive efforts.
• Advocate for a positive employee experience and high engagement.
• Identify employee experience defects and escalate risks to the right stakeholders.
• Promote a positive work environment across the Market that drives engagement, retention, and EPS through consistent execution of LEAD Plays.
• Utilize data and insights to identify opportunities and make recommendations when appropriate (e.g., EPS action planning).
• Participate in labor negotiations and support campaigns.
• Develop department goals and objectives and execute plans to meet these goals.
• Advisory role on application of Company policies to ensure consistency and accurate policy interpretation interdepartmentally.
• Facilitate training as needed, including orientation or leader development.
• Support communication and change campaigns for strategic HR and business priorities, driving employee adoption and accelerating ROI.
• Collaborate with HR stakeholders to support campaigns and deliver consistent programmatic messaging across the HR function.
• Maintain accountability to support consistent implementation and execution of policies, plays, and routines.
• Lead investigations with support of the ADHR when assigned, partner with Compliance on investigations they lead; effectively summarize findings and provide recommendations for employee relations investigations in conjunction with Region HR, Compliance, Legal, and functional leaders.
• Support recruitment efforts, help develop staffing and retention strategies, manage onboarding, PIP's and IDP's.
• Review and coach on hourly level disciplinary / performance management actions.
• Provide coaching and consulting support to Area leaders, with guidance from the ADHR, in completing talent assessment and planning processes, performance management processes and talent identification for various programs.
• Lead leave administration practices for the market, provide guidance for the interactive process in conjunction with ADHR and Legal.
• Participate in interactive discussions with employees in compliance with ADA and support the Workers Compensation Program.
• Collaborate with and influence market leaders to ensure HR practices align with business objectives and drive market success.
• Remain up-to-date with changes in US Foods procedures, employment laws, and regulations to ensure compliance.
• Maintain documentation relating to personnel activities such as staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, Affirmative Action Plans including good faith outreach efforts, and disciplinary actions.
• Maintain personnel files.
• Occasionally perform physical activities including standing, walking, driving, sitting, lifting up to 10 lbs, carrying up to 10 lbs, grasping objects, manipulating objects, and using manual dexterity.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years HR experience with at least 4 in professional (non-administrative) role.
• Experience consulting with and advising small management teams.
• Demonstrated strong foundation in core HR fundamentals to effectively support and advise the organization on various HR practices and processes.
• Familiarity with legislation concerning employment such as: ADA, FMLA, EEOC, FLSA, Title VII.
• Working knowledge of MS Office software required; HRIS familiarity; effective presentation skills; ability to interface with all employee levels.
• Travel required 10-15%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.
• SHRM certification desirable.
• Valid driver’s license required & motor vehicle record must be in good standing.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to make timely and informed decisions and understand when to escalate issues.

Benefits

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

Pay

The expected base rate for this role is between $75,000 - $120,000.

Schedule

ON-SITE 100%.