Senior Manager, Global HR Compliance

About the role

The Global Employee Relations & HR Compliance Team supports Western Digital ensuring consistency and reducing compliance risks in our employment practices and policies worldwide. This team partners closely with the regional people solutions representatives, HR Centers of Excellence, Ethics and Compliance, and Employment Law to review and advise on matters of policy, country compliance, and investigations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a gap analysis to identify policy and compliance risks
• Develop, write, and implement HR policies and partner cross-functionally with COEs and other policy owners to ensure compliance with federal and local laws
• Partner with Legal and COEs as needed to ensure policy alignment with local laws
• Develop policy governance model and ensure all policy related documents are up to date and centrally located
• Drive HR compliance related initiatives including but not limited to OFCCP, GSR, Time & Attendance, Gender Pay Gap Reporting, all US and country specific compliance reporting, compliance training requirements, etc.
• Manage HR Compliance focused training and development
• Support country HR teams in project managing local audits, etc.
• Stay current with the evolving compliance landscape globally
• Build a high performing team while ensuring operational excellence

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Human Resources
• 7+ years of experience in an HR Compliance focused role
• 5+ years of leadership experience

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to earn trust, dive deep and work successfully on a broad spectrum of employee and labor relations issues and business challenges.
• Strong knowledge of RBA and internal audit processes.
• Strong project manager, capable of independently owning large-scale, network-wide projects
• Demonstrates an inclusive leadership style and a commitment to equality
• Experience working in a global company leading cross-functional regional and global projects of significant scope, complexity, and of a highly sensitive nature.
• Demonstrated success leading programs and driving process improvements
• The ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to drive continuous improvement
• Robust understanding of key HR concepts and practices (employment law, compliance, engagement, retention, and performance)

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.