Regional HR Manager – PA, MD & MA

About the role

The Regional Human Resources Manager – Branches is responsible for leading People Operations and providing strategic and operational HR support across Baldor’s branch locations. This role supports a geographically dispersed, multi-state workforce across warehousing, distribution, transportation, and logistics operations and serves as the primary HR leadership resource for the assigned region. The Regional HR Manager provides direct leadership, coaching, and oversight to the People Operations Partners (POPs) supporting branch locations, establishing clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations while ensuring consistent and effective HR support across locations. The ideal candidate brings strong experience supporting a multi-site, multi-state, high-volume hourly workforce in warehouse, distribution, logistics, or transportation environments and has demonstrated success leading HR across geographically dispersed locations. This maintains the operational workforce focus established in the current Senior HR Manager role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary HR partner to branch and regional business leaders across assigned locations.
• Partner with the Senior Director, HRBP to execute HR and workforce strategies aligned with business and operational priorities.
• Build strong partnerships with Operations, Transportation, Safety, and other functional leaders to understand workforce needs and proactively address people-related risks and opportunities.
• Translate business priorities into actionable people strategies for the region.
• Support organizational design, workforce planning, talent strategy, succession planning, and change management initiatives.
• Use workforce data, trends, and KPIs to identify opportunities related to turnover, attendance, engagement, performance, staffing, leadership effectiveness, and retention.
• Ensure regional HR priorities remain aligned with broader organizational HR strategies and standards.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop People Operations Partners supporting branch locations.
• Establish clear individual and team goals, priorities, deliverables, and performance expectations aligned with business and HR objectives.
• Maintain visibility into POP workload and capacity and appropriately distribute assignments based on operational needs, complexity, and priorities.
• Provide oversight of POP goals, projects, recurring tasks, ER caseloads, investigations, and follow-up actions to ensure timely and effective execution.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and team check-ins to review priorities, progress against goals, employee relations activity, workload, and development needs.
• Provide ongoing performance feedback, development planning, and coaching to strengthen POP capability, judgment, consistency, and business partnership.
• Establish clear accountability for completion and quality of ER documentation, investigations, corrective actions, HR transactions, and follow-up commitments.
• Identify skill and performance gaps within the team and establish appropriate development, coaching, and performance improvement plans