Human Resources Manager

About Gerber Collision & Glass

Gerber Collision & Glass, a partner of Lensa, puts its team members first. You'll receive a great salary and benefits, and experience the support and opportunity you deserve. You’re empowered to make decisions and control your future.

Job Description: Human Resources Manager

As a Human Resources Manager, you will assist in the development of organizational planning, utilizing a deep understanding of business needs. You will take a consultative approach to engaging with managers on business and people issues, and you’ll provide HR project leadership in the development of policy revisions and/or other employee-related programs. You will consult with managers on all aspects of leadership and employee/labor relations, helping us to build a best-in-class culture. You will lead projects and track project goals and tasks, report on progress, make recommendations, and help with implementation. You will ensure consistent and equitable application of organizational policies and procedures across a functional area or location. You will lead and execute on talent initiatives and act as a change agent to enable the growth & development of our people.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Act as the primary and highly visible business partner to help build effective teams and to achieve business goals.
• Manage and develop HR team members to become future HR leaders and to achieve regional team goals and objectives together.
• Build deep relationships with all stakeholders, including labor unions where applicable, by learning the business operations and their interests to help drive business and team performance.
• Display intellectual curiosity and an analytical mindset with a focus on solutions.
• Influence business leaders and position the organization to attract and retain talent through training & development and reward strategies.
• Leverage COEs for leadership development, strategy and people analytics and recruiting to help attract, engage and retain great talent.
• Identify root causes and conduct relevant data analysis in order to propose both short-term and long-term interventions and solutions.
• Improve and apply HR processes, policies and standards meeting local and federal employment laws.
• Think independently, investigate and resolve labor relations and employee issues, partnering with labor and legal teams, where necessary.
• Apply analytical skills to collect and synthesize large quantities of data, tell the story and formulate recommendations based on data trends and insights.
• Implement HR initiatives in order to support all the above.

Education And/or Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, related field, or professional experience equivalent; Master's Degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in HR roles within fast-paced and matrix organizations.
• Experience with collective bargaining, negotiations, and consultations with labor unions.
• Advanced skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).

Required Skills/Abilities

• Ability to Travel ~50%.
• Proven ability to understand business goals and then design & implement new approaches, policies and procedures to affect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and development of the HR function within the company.
• Proven bias for action as evidenced through proactive, innovative and value-creating solution implementation.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity within a complex, dynamic and rapidly changing business environment.
• Proven ability to seamlessly transition between strategic thinking and tactical execution.
• Proven ability to prioritize the most impactful work amidst multiple competing priorities.
• Success in creating & driving effective and positive employee and labor relations for large populations of hourly employees in a distribution and / or manufacturing environment.
• Success in leading and managing projects, some of which may be large-scale, cross-functional, and require strong stakeholder management and alignment.

Key skills/competency

• HR Strategy Development
• Organizational Planning
• Employee Relations
• Labor Relations
• Talent Management
• Policy Implementation
• Project Leadership
• Business Partnering
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Leadership Development