Senior Manager, HR

Description

Lactalis USA is currently seeking candidates to join our Human Resources Team, at a new business unit of Lactalis USA, called MidWest Yogurt located in Minneapolis, MN.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis USA we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.

From your PASSION to ours

As the Senior Manager, Human Resources (Corporate), you will lead HR initiatives for our corporate functions, serving as a strategic business partner to senior leadership, managers, and employees. Your focus will be on strengthening leadership capabilities and driving accountability in people processes across the organization.

You will also provide leadership, coaching, and development to a team of HR professionals and oversee the payroll function for the division. This role works in close collaboration with department executives, the USA HR Shared Services team, and reports directly to the Vice President, Human Resources.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Drive and facilitate all human resources initiatives including but not limited to recruitment, performance management, training and development, succession planning, employee relations, and organizational development for corporate functions. 
• Provide leadership and guidance on people programs and policies across client groups to ensure consistent and fair implementation as well as compliance and maintain open communication with managers and employees.
• Build and strengthen business relationships proactively with senior leadership, managers and employees by fostering an open, collaborative approach that seeks to elevate people management and resolve conflicts. 
• Collaborate with managers in the performance management review process by providing insight on effective objective setting, delivering on-going feedback and providing useful tools on conducting performance management and development reviews. Consult on difficult performance management issues, such as performance improvement plans, exit strategies and conflict resolution. 
• Deploy people strategies and design approaches for diagnosing and enhancing organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction. 
• Provide coaching and advice to employees where appropriate, and support employees in understanding their potential and development opportunities. 
• As a member of the Division HR Leadership Team, collaborate to develop, recommend, and implement effective people practices, people strategies, initiatives, programs, and policies, aligned with the business strategy and in line with best practices in the market. 
• In partnership with the VP HR, contribute to strategic organizational design and workforce planning initiatives linked to the needs of the business. Collaborate with Executive and Leadership teams on needs assessment, creation, development and/or implementation of organizational design strategies, and structural changes aligned to meet the short- and long-term needs of the business. 
• In partnership with the VP HR, participate in the headcount and labor cost budgeting process for the corporate functions, which includes partnering with Executive and Leadership teams on business case development, approval processes, and build of the overall people budget in collaboration with Compensation and Finance. 
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team for recruitment activities of assigned client groups. Focus will be on providing guidance with regards to business needs and advising recruiting teams to ensure the organization has the right people in the right roles and aligns with the company values. May assist with sourcing, screening, interviewing and referring applicants to management for further interviews.
• Lead and manage a team