Human Resources Manager – Americas
Purpose
Do you have a passion for recruiting, developing, and retaining world class talent? Do you thrive on building and supporting high growth strategic plans with a steadfast focus on employee needs? If so, you could be a perfect fit for our Human Resources Manager role in our Sussex, Wisconsin office.
The Avire Americas team is looking for a highly driven human resources professional intent on developing, deploying, and protecting the most important aspect of our business – our people! Your challenge is to continually develop internal talent, recruit exceptional talent, foster an inclusive and high performing culture, and partner with the Americas team to align on the strategic direction of the business. To be successful in this role, you should have a solid foundation as an HR professional and a desire for increased responsibility.
What will you be doing?
- Support the U.S. business in developing and delivering strategic HR plans that fit with the overall HR strategy and business direction
- Lead talent sourcing, recruitment, engagement, and retainment strategies to meet business needs
- Effectively communicate, establish trust, and maintain positive employee relations with all levels of management and employees
- Be a partner and resource to managers on HR related matters
- Champion the onboarding process by ensuring that it's high-quality and up to date, providing clarity and connection for employees
- Ensure HR policies and practices are effectively communicated and compliant with all applicable local law/regulations
- Partner with Global Talent & Career Development Manager to create and deploy talent solutions and programs that support the professional growth of employees
- Promote an inclusive culture that focuses on diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and opinions
- Consult on a variety of complex employee relations issues such as corrective actions, policy violations and performance issues
- Develop and implement processes to facilitate organization changes and support with appropriate change management processes
- Establish and monitor HR related metrics for site
- Handle confidential matters with discretion
- Lead in a fast-paced environment open to experimentation and continuous improvement
Leadership Competencies
Action-Oriented Curiosity: You readily take on challenges, and you identify and seize new opportunities. You have an outstanding history of delivering on your projects. You work on the problems that truly need solving, and you effectively challenge the organization to be better. You can cut through the clutter and focus on the priorities that align with organizational objectives.
Collaboration: You embrace the unique experiences, viewpoints, and abilities of your teammates and proactively engage those differences to come to the best possible outcome.
Empowerment: You thrive in an environment where you can make decisions. You do not shy away from taking a stand, and you recognize the importance of challenging the team to ensure that we strive for more.
Accountability: You take responsibility for your actions, and you deliver on your commitments.
Inclusion: In all aspects of your work, you treat everyone with respect.
People First: The wellbeing of employees is at the center of everything you do. You’ll hold the business accountable to making the best decisions for its employees under all situations.
Performance Objectives
- Improve U.S. engagement score – specifically areas related to career development and communication
- Conduct a talent review identifying talent gaps, high-potentials and critical roles required for acheivement of strategic growth objectives
- Increase the percentage of diverse candidates in the recruitment pipeline.
- Review and update HR policies and procedures inline with global HR
- Enhance U.S. culture, aligning to organizational values
- Implement next phase of Workday, identify Workday modules for future implementation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, human resources, or a related field
- A minimum of 5 years progressive human resources experience. Experience in a manufacturing environment required
- A minimum of 3 years of employee relations experience
- Workday experience preferred
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills at all organizational levels
- Proven ability to problem-solve
Who is Avire?
AVIRE combines 4 market-leading brands (Rath, Janus, Microkey, and Memco) within the elevator and emergency communications industries; currently offering light curtains and emergency telephones / GSMs. Each brand has a strong market presence, a unique identity, a distinct product range, and a long, successful history. The group has manufacturing locations in 3 countries, R&D in 3 countries and Sales & Marketing in 11 countries and employs over 400 people globally.
Avire is part of the Halma group (www.halma.com). Halma offers very high levels of autonomy to its operating companies, while providing support when needed, with a particular focus on talent development and investment in people.
Avire is an equal opportunity employer.
See www.halma.com/our-people for more information.
If you’re interested in working for a business whose primary focus is to protect and improve the lives of people around the world, you’ve come to the right place. We aim to be a company that does good work, and that’s good to work for.
Halma employs over 6,500 people in nearly 50 subsidiary businesses based in over 20 countries. Through innovation and acquisition, we have developed a portfolio of market-leading companies within our three sectors: Safety, Medical, and Environmental & Analysis.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Organizational bonus scheme
Complete benefits package including insurance, 401K, vacation, and generous parental leave
Opportunity for hybrid work schedule
A focus on employee development
How do I apply?
If you think you can deliver in this role, please send your resume to: shelly.gagen-block@avire-global.com
