Human Resources Business Partner

About the role

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as the face of HR to headquarters leaders, managers, and associates, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner. This role advances business outcomes by aligning HR practices to enterprise priorities, with a specific focus on Organizational Design and Workforce Management.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize organizational structures to align with business strategy, growth priorities, and operational efficiency
• Facilitate and act as a consultant to the functions the role supports in creating business cases, ensuring they are compliant with our internal procedures
• Lead organizational assessments, identify structural gaps, and implement solutions that enhance performance and accountability
• Guide/Facilitate business leaders to define roles and reporting relationships that improve clarity and execution
• Drive change management processes associated with reorganizations, business transformations, and capability shifts
• Manage job description inventory and functions as a consultant for the business to facilitate job description creation
• Ensure alignment of organizational design with financial and productivity targets
• Partners with AC Corporate for policy compliance, projects, job titles, and job descriptions. Responsible for information flow and upload to Corporate platforms
• Create workforce planning processes functions, including forecasting, headcount planning, and productivity modeling
• Analyze workforce trends (turnover, capacity, capability gaps) and translate insights into actionable staffing strategies
• Drive staffing initiatives with Talent Acquisition, ensuring alignment to business priorities and timelines
• Lead workforce optimization efforts, including role redesign, resource allocation, and capability build
• Communicate and ensure understanding of company policies, compensation, and benefits programs
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations
• Implement affirmative action programs and support diversity recruitment and outreach initiatives
• Partner with Employee Relations to investigate and resolve associate complaints, issues and concerns regarding employment practices originating from various sources, including but not limited to grievances, Ethics & Compliance hotline calls, Solutions complaints, lawsuits, and complaints filed with federal, state and local agencies
• Maintain and monitor application and enforcement of work rules to ensure fairness and consistency
• Maintain and monitor policies and procedures to ensure fairness and consistency
• Lead change management efforts for major organizational and workforce initiatives
• Ensure consistent execution of company communication strategies and change methodologies
• Partner with leadership to cascade messaging and ensure adoption of business and HR initiatives
• Implement, execute and communicate Positive Employee Relations practices and training for frontline leaders and frontline
• Manage Cheers 2 U program, reviews and approves individual cases ensuring compliance
• Business Partner for COE functions at Headquarters
• Implement and facilitate training programs as required
• Execute key talent processes (performance management, succession, development planning)
• Serve as the primary consultant to business leaders on all HR matters ensuring alignment with COEs
• Integrate across COEs to deliver holistic solutions
• Drive calibration processes (TMR/9-box) with fact-based assessments and consistency across the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of progressive HR Experience
• Organizational Design; experience building business cases
• Demonstrated ability to lead audits, regulatory filings, and process improvements
• Analytical skillset; able to use dashboards, Excel (Pivot Tables and formulas)
• Preferred: Master’s degree in HR
• 5+ years of progressive HR Experience
• Previous manufacturing or distribution experience preferred
• Previous consumer products experience preferred
• Bilingual (Spanish) highly preferred for interaction with AC Corporate