Director, People Experience

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Position Summary

The Director, People Experience (PE) role is a strategic business partner role for the North American (NAM) Protective Supply Chain (16 plants) and local PE for the Holyoke, MA location. The role helps to drive success in the network of plants by identifying and providing employee related strategies. In addition, this role supports and leads a team responsible for implementing and executing all tactical aspects of the PE function for the network of NAM plants. This role serves as part of the NAM Protective Leadership team to support the regional NAM PE team and the HR Centers of Excellence (COE) communities.

Job Description

The Director role identifies and provides strategic support, including but not limited to:
• Strategic support for talent assessment, acquisition, and development
• Embedding Sealed Air's people strategy and providing HR guidance to the NAM Supply Chain organization
• As part of the NAM People Leadership Team, leading execution of the Sealed Air NAM HR Strategy and serving as liaison between the business, corporate HR, and HR centers of excellence
• Identifying, facilitating, and coordinating all strategic aspects of HR in NAM Protective Supply Chain, including compensation, benefits, staffing, succession, development, learning, org design, employee relations, engagement, and performance management
• Monitoring bench strength and succession planning for key network leadership roles
• Partnering with local and network leadership to drive engagement and culture change
• Acting as a close business partner to the Executive Director of Operations regarding development of the NAM Supply Chain organization and team
• Providing creative solutions to network challenges such as overtime, turnover, and job/pay structures
• Measuring and improving operational results through people-related initiatives
• Supporting headquarters leadership as needed
• Providing leadership, goal setting, coaching, and development for a team of ~10 PE professionals

 

The HR Director role supports, implements, and executes tactical HR functions, including but not limited to:
• Positive employee and labor relations (engagement, union avoidance, collective bargaining) for Supply Chain employees
• Performance and talent management (development, job progression, annual reviews, terminations) aligned with local practices and business processes
• Regional project coordination (policies, process, change management), in collaboration with Legal, PE, and COEs
• Total Rewards (compensation, benefits)
• Talent Acquisition (recruiting, onboarding, orientation)
• Talent Management (performance & development)
• Implementing merit-based systems
• Partnering with TAG on hourly hiring (recruiting, onboarding, orientation)
• Learning & Organizational Capability (performance management, training delivery & design)
• Diversity & Inclusion program coordination
• HRIS deployment, including management of e-Time or other time systems
• Government compliance, internal investigations, and goodwill initiatives
• Direct and indirect supervision of PE professionals (Regional Managers, Managers, Generalists)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s d