Advisor, People Consultant

Daimler AG; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Domestic/international travel

Onsite presence as needed

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz USA is seeking a People Consultant to act as a strategic HR partner across designated business areas, coaching leaders, mitigating risk, ensuring compliance, and driving people initiatives to support the company’s position as an employer of choice.

The role focuses on advising leaders on employee relations, organizational design, workforce planning, and talent development while collaborating with global teams to implement standardized HR processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5–7 years of progressive HR experience, including HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, and Organizational Development.
• Knowledge of HR principles across Compensation & Benefits, Employee Relations, Talent Management, and HRIS.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills with ability to build trust quickly.

Responsibilities

• Advise leaders on employee relations issues, performance management, coaching, policy interpretation, and disciplinary actions.
• Translate workforce trends into workforce strategies, headcount planning, succession, and capability assessments.
• Conduct investigations into harassment, discrimination, and workplace violence claims.
• Ensure compliance with laws, ISO standards, audits, and internal People policies.
• Lead organizational design guidance, job banding, and headcount planning.
• Partner with PSC and GFT to align people strategies and standardized processes.

Skills

Employee relations

Organizational development

HR operations & compliance

Analytical thinking

Communication

Influencing & stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field

Master’s Degree in HR Management (preferred)

Job description

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About Us

Mercedes-Benz USA is responsible for the sales, marketing and service of all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. In our people, you will find tremendous commitment to our corporate values.Our products and employees reflect this dedication. We are looking for diverse top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz Team and uphold these hallmarks.

Job Overview

The People Consultant (formerly HR Business Partner) serves as a strategic and operational partner to designated business areas. This role provides expert consultation on People policies, organizational design, talent development, and associate relations. The People Consultant will coach leaders, mitigate risk, ensure compliance, and drive initiatives that support the Company’s position as an employer of choice.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise leaders on employee relations issues, including conflict resolution, performance management, coaching, policy interpretation, and disciplinary actions.

• Assess workforce, business, and organizational trends and translate insights into workforce strategies, organizational plans, and leadership actions to support current and future business needs. Partner with business leaders to support workforce planning strategy, including headcount forecasting, staffing plans, succession considerations, and workforce capability assessments.

• Conduct investigations into sexual harassment, discrimination, hostile work environment, and workplace violence claims.

• Coordinate employment-related legal actions and partner with Corporate Security, Business Practies Office, and Legal as needed.

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, ISO standards, corporate audits, and internal People policies.

• Provide guidance to leaders on organizational structure, job banding, headcount planning, and job description development.

• Lead PT consultation activities associated with organizational change management initiatives, including communications and transition planning.

• Prepare reports, maintain documentation, and support audits and compliance reviews related to People programs and processes.

• Coordinate and facilitate training sessions related to People policies, programs, and processes.

• Advise leaders on talent strategy, including succession planning, leadership pipeline development, talent assessment, retention planning, and organizational capability building to support future business growth.

• Act as trusted advisor to managers and employees and partner with People colleagues to align and execute on People and corporate initiatives.

• Partner with the business, People Solutions Center (PSC), and Global Functional Teams (GFT) to align people strategies, advocate for business needs, and support effective implementation of standardized People processes and services.

• Serve as a strategic organizational consultant along with talent advisor to business leaders by translating workforce, business, and organizational trends into actionable strategies.

• Provide guidance on employee relations, organizational design, workforce planning, change management, and talent development, and consulting on the effective use of People policies, programs, processes, and solutions to support business objectives and organizational effectiveness.

Qualifikationen

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Business Management, Communications, or related field.

5–7 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including:

• HR Business Partnering

• Employee Relations

• Organizational Development or Learning & Development

• HR operations and Compliance

• Strong knowledge of Human Resources principles across Compensation & Benefits, Employee Relations, Talent Management, and HRIS.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with ability to build trust quickly.

• Ability to navigate complex organizations, influence leaders, and manage multiple priorities.

PREFERRED

• PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SCP

• Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Management or Business Administration

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Flexible hours, domestic/international travel, onsite presence as needed.

EEO Statement

Mercedes-Benz USA is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, religion, marital status, veteran status, physical or other disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.