People Partner - North America

About the role

Join a team where your work has real impact. At A-SAFE, you'll help shape the people agenda across North America, partnering with leaders to create an engaging, compliant and high-performing workplace while supporting business growth and organisational success. As People Partner, you'll lead the end-to-end People function across the United States, Canada and Mexico, acting as a trusted advisor to leaders on employee relations, engagement, talent, organisation design and people risk.

This is a high-impact role for an experienced HR professional who combines strategic thinking with strong employment law knowledge, stakeholder influence and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to deliver the people strategy across North America, aligning local priorities with business objectives.
• Lead employee relations activity by managing complex cases, providing expert guidance and ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes.
• Strengthen engagement and culture through local engagement initiatives, internal communications and action planning that improves the colleague experience.
• Drive organisational effectiveness by supporting organisation design, change programmes, workforce planning and talent reviews.
• Ensure compliance and minimise risk by maintaining HR policies, supporting audits and providing expert guidance on employment legislation and governance.
• Improve people processes and analytics through data-driven decision making, HR systems adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Strong HR Business Partnering experience with hands-on ownership of employee relations, policy implementation and people strategy.
• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and compliance, with experience managing risk and complex people matters.
• Experienced stakeholder partner capable of influencing senior leaders, challenging constructively and building trusted relationships across the business.
• Strong organizational design and change management capability, with experience supporting business transformation and growth.
• Data-driven and commercially minded, using insights and HR analytics to drive decision making and continuous improvement.
• Professional HR qualification such as CIPD, SHRM or equivalent is preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage — Three Cigna medical plan options (HSA Open Access Plus, Open Access Plus-Base, and Open Access Plus-Buy Up) allowing you to choose the plan that best fits your health needs and budget.
• Employer-Funded FSA Contribution — A-SAFE contributes $500 each year to your Flexible Spending Account, helping reduce out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
• Automatic Basic Life & Disability Coverage — Employer-provided life insurance and short/long-term disability coverage at no cost to you, offering financial protection for you and your family.

About us

A‑SAFE started in 1984 solving real workplace safety problems with better, more innovative products. Today we protect people, assets and operations for over 6,000 customers across 50 countries — including Amazon, Coca‑Cola and BMW. We're still family-owned, built on strong values and long-term thinking.