Senior HR Manager

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Senior HR Manager partners with managers and employees to provide human resources support and solutions.  This position will manage a team to partner with leadership supporting multiple AST Operations facilities. They will support all associates and leaders through talent management, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, reporting/analytics, and championing HR initiatives. We take our mission seriously at STERIS in creating a healthier, safer world. Everything we do supports our Customers, associates, and our values to achieve this mission through smart, innovative HR practices that make a difference so our associates can make a difference with our Customers.

This role can be located in one of the following locations: South Plainfield, NJ., Whippany, NJ., or Chester, NY. and will require a hybrid schedule of 4 days in office as well as quarterly travel to other regional locations in OH, PA, SC, and MA (approximately 30% travel). 

What You'll do as a Senior HR Manager

• Reporting to a HR Director and working with HR and leadership team supporting our AST Operations groups. 
• Serve as a senior HR partner to assigned Operations groups supporting all associates and leaders through talent management, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, reporting/analytics, and championing HR initiatives. This includes identifying opportunities and positively influencing leadership culture—true “needle moving” HR work.
• Advise leadership on all Human Resources issues and initiatives impacting the organization's business goals and objectives.
• Drive performance management initiatives including training members of the leadership team across the business.
• Partner with business leaders to increase employee engagement through innovative and unique solutions for a distributed team.
• Act as a coach to managers on employee performance, talent development, employee relations issues and other people management priorities.
• In conjunction with our business partners, develop communication and change initiatives to align associates with the business goals and objectives and to address employee concerns.
• Develop and manage talent acquisition/ retention programs, work force planning initiatives, and facilitate the business unit succession planning processes.
• In conjunction with Corporate HR resources, ensure compensation and benefits programs are in place and managed to support established goals and objectives. Leads the development of organizational assessment initiatives to ensure effective structure and processes are in place.
• Provide leadership to establish a high-performance team-based culture with emphasis on diversity.
• Provide leadership and guidance to ensure performance metrics and performance guidance processes are in place. 
• Provide support to the management team for developing talent management strategy around talent assessment, succession planning, coaching and development.
• Ensure compliance with all employment laws/regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required:    

• Bachelor’s Degree required, major in Human Resources Management, psychology, business, or other related field. Master’s degree, a plus.
• 10 years of progressive HR Business Partner experience in a variety of HR areas including talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, succession planning, training, employee relations, organizational development and design, and other aspects of HR service delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading an HR function for a department or business segment.
• Demonstrated ability to invest effort, find success, work independently, and work in high performing/highly paced teams.
• Able to provide HR support, proactive partnering with HR leaders, build innovative ideas & passionately take care of our associates and managers
• Proven experience as HR Business Partner with a history of working with senior leaders at a manager level and above.
• Exceptional coaching and counseling at all levels, performance management and recruiting. 
• Experience delivering training and communication programs, and making presentations to senior management
• Experience with job evaluations and preparation of job descriptions. Understanding of employment law and diversity/EEOC compliance and promotion. Excellent communicator both verbal and written.
• Ability to effectively lead through change and improvement initiatives. Demonstrates integrity and maintains confidentiality.
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