Director, Human Resources

Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc.; Hamel (MN); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc. in Minnesota seeks a Director of Human Resources to design and drive people strategies that boost organizational effectiveness, talent development, and culture across North America.

You will lead Learning & Development, Recruiting, and HR Business Partner teams, partner with executives to align people initiatives with business goals, and use data to inform workforce planning and change management.

Qualifications

• Requires proven experience leading HR strategy and programs across a multi-site organization.
• Demonstrated ability to design leadership development, succession planning, and culture initiatives.
• Strong collaboration with executives to align people priorities with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead Learning & Development: leadership programs, governance, training effectiveness.
• Head North America HRBP group providing strategic HR support on org design, employee relations, PM, planning, coaching, and change management.
• Lead Recruiting/Talent Acquisition: strategy, employer branding, candidate experience, selection, and partner with leaders to meet talent needs.
• Serve as advisor to executives on interventions to improve team effectiveness and culture transformation.
• Use data and analytics to measure program outcomes and inform continuous improvements.
• Partner with leaders to identify capability gaps and talent priorities; support organization-wide workforce planning.
• Establish and monitor KPIs to ensure scalable, aligned HR operations.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic HR

Talent management

Employee relations

Change management

Data-driven decisions

Communication

Job description

Job Title: Director, Human Resources

FLSA Status: Exempt

Department: Human Resources

Reports to: VP Human Resources

GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PURPOSE:

Theroleis responsible for designing, leading, and executing strategies that drive organizational effectiveness, talent management, and culture at Loram. This role oversees the Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, andNorth America HRBPteams, serving as a key architect of programs that attract, develop, and retain top talent. Partners closely with executive leadership to align people initiatives with business objectives, foster a high-performing culture, and lead change management and employee relations efforts across the organization.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Lead the Learning & Development team, including creation of leadership development programming, learning governance, training effectiveness, and alignment of learning priorities to current and future business capability needs.
• Lead the North America HRBP group, ensuring HR Business Partners are a strategic consultant leveraged to deliver consistent, proactive, and business-aligned support in areas such as organizational design, employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, manager coaching, and change management.
• Lead the Recruiting/Talent Acquisition team, focusing on recruiting strategy, employment branding, candidate experience, selection processes, hiring effectiveness, and partnership with business leaders to meet talent needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and change leader to executives and people managers, designing and facilitating interventions that improve team effectiveness, organizational structure, leadership capability, and cultural transformation.
• Leverage data and talent analytics to assess organizational needs, monitor recruiting, learning, workforce, and engagement trends, measure program effectiveness, and deliver actionable insights for continuous improvement.
• Partner with executives and talent leaders to identify organizational capability needs and leadership/talent priorities.
• Support organization wide workforce planning efforts
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators throughout the organization to ensure teams are aligned, scalable, and responsive to business needs.
• Be a key leader in the HR organization - partnering closely with the Total Rewards Director and global HR Directors to align and build common practices and approaches where possible
• Manage budgets, resources, vendor relationships, tools, and external partnerships for OD, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and HRBP functions.