Overview of the Company
United Wheels Inc. (“UWI”) is an international, privately held business, with affiliated companies and operations in Asia, the Americas and around the world. UWI is a world leader in the design, manufacture and international distribution of bicycles, e-bikes, and rideable toys, manufacturing more than 6 million bicycles and e-Bikes each year. In additional to cycling, UWI is at the forefront of materials science though Allite Inc. and its affiliated companies, which utilizes its proprietary magnesium alloys across numerous industries (e.g., sporting goods, robotics, electronics, aerospace, etc.).
UWI owns and operates several bicycle-related subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include:
Huffy Corp. (https://www.huffybikes.com/), the iconic bicycling company based in Dayton, Ohio, with more than 125+ years of bicycling history.
Buzz Bicycles (https//.buzzbicycles.com)
Batch Outdoors Inc. (https://www.batchbicycles.com/)
Niner Brands International Inc. (https://ninerbikes.com/)
VAAST Bicycles, (a division of Allite Inc.) (https://www.vaastbikes.com/)
Summary
- The HR Generalist will support all Human Resources functions for the United Wheels portfolio of brands. This includes administering payroll, benefits, and leave, recruiting, and enforcing company policies and practices.
- Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in administering benefits, compensation, and employee performance programs. This includes 401k management and audits, as well as unemployment and workmen’s comp claim supervision.
- Develop and distribute organizational announcements.
- Service Awards.
- Oversight of company’s Commuter Incentive Program.
- Participate in the development of HR objectives and systems, including metrics, queries, and ongoing reports for company requirements.
- Suggest new procedures and policies for improving employee experience as well as the efficiency of HR department and company.
- Ensure compliance with local and national regulations and applicable employment laws, and update policies and procedures when necessary.
- General HR services.
Supervisory Responsibilities
No current supervisory responsibilities
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor’s degree in human resources or equivalent work experience required. Three to Five years progressive HR Benefits & Compliance experience required. Project Management experience and/or PMP Certification preferred. A desire to get your hands dirty in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, rapidly growing business. Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to consistently develop and maintain strong business partnerships. Strong technical, analytical, and planning skills. Strong business acumen and program management skills. This position will require approximately 5% of domestic travel. A passion for cycling and the outdoors is preferred.
Competencies
- Customer Focus - Aims to satisfy all customers while maintaining effective relationships, both internal and external. Maximizes those relationships to improve personal, department, and organizational performance. Holds co-workers and customers to a similar standard.
- Energy - Have a tremendous amount of energy and passion for our people, products, and brands. Approaches each date willing to take on the day’s challenges. Operating at their individual peak performance without encouragement.
- Energize - Energize teams with enthusiasm and excitement without intimidating them. Projects a positive mental attitude and can-do spirit, who lifts up members of his / her team. Does not get discouraged by setbacks.
- Edge - Have a competitive edge and an overwhelming desire to win. Hates losing and will give 100% commitment to achieving or exceeding their plan. Willing to make difficult decisions, when called upon.
- Execution - Action and performance oriented and are focused on attaining results. A team player who is reliable and follows through on tasks to completion. Attention to details.
- Increases Company Value - Strives to increase sales, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and maximize profits to increase the value of the Company.
- Innovative / Continuous Improvement - Committed to improving processes, products, services, and a willingness to embrace change for the benefit of our team, department, organization, and shareholders.
- Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Elevating challenges in order to collaborate with co-workers, SLT, ELT, and the Board.
- Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints. Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
- Mathematical Skills
- Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills
Microsoft Office, knowledge of systems, software and hardware, including application systems and operating systems.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
None Required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually q
