Director of People – Home Office

Safelite; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Safelite is seeking a Director of People to lead the Home Office people strategy, partnering with SLT, SVP and VPs to drive organizational effectiveness and talent initiatives across functions. The role emphasizes building diverse teams, coaching leaders, and ensuring compliant, high-impact HR programs.

The individual will influence hiring decisions, develop leadership training, monitor performance, and maintain associate relations while safeguarding confidential information and legal compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years HR Business Partner experience in large, matrixed organizations.
• Experience with labor laws and associate relations.

Responsibilities

• Align and execute the people strategy for the assigned function with senior leaders.
• Influence hiring, org structure and talent decisions across functions.
• Ensure compliance with trainings, performance reviews, and talent programs.
• Develop leadership training programs with Talent Management.
• Provide performance coaching and create talent action plans.
• Support onboarding for new leaders.
• Minimize legal risk and ensure confidentiality.

Skills

Leadership

Talent management

HR strategy

Communication

Analytical

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Director of People

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A Brief Overview

The Director of People – Home Office will partner with the business and execute the Home Office people strategy. This results-oriented leader will partner cross functionally with business leaders, functional teams and subject matter experts to maximize business outcomes by leveraging organizational structures and talent to deliver critical business objectives. Scope of responsibility includes influencing functional leaders on organizational structures, talent decisions, engagement and retention, performance management and associate relations, and business performance improvement.

What You Will Do

• Partners with the SLT leader, SVP & VPs to align on and execute the people strategy for their assigned function
• Influences talent decisions, including organizational structures and critical hiring initiatives, to ensure the structure and people can deliver the business objectives. This leader influences without authority across functions and leadership levels.
• Ensure teams are compliant and are completing required trainings, talent check-ins, performance reviews, performance calibrations, engagement survey action plans, award processes and other critical PLD programs and initiatives.
• Assess leadership development needs and partners with the Talent Management and Development team to design, develop and facilitate impactful leadership training programs.
• Provides performance management consulting and calibrates top/bottom performers with leaders; partners and creates talent action plans to close gaps; aggressively monitors and reports progress.
• Actively participates in the selection process and influences hiring managers to raise the talent bar and prioritize building diverse teams
• Champions change efforts and effectively lead teams through change
• Maintains strong associate relations and fosters an inclusive, safe, and positive people culture. Provides individual coaching to associates as needed
• Partners to build onboarding plans for new leaders
• Proactively minimizes legal risk to Company and complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
• Maintains confidentiality of financial information, insurance and litigation documents, associate information (e.g., wage information, discipline, health information) and other sensitive and confidential information.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Experience Qualifications

• 10+ years Experience in Human Resources (Business Partner) supporting mid to large size businesses with matrixed operations.

Skills And Abilities

• Has passion, high energy, ability to energize others, works smart, displays a sense of urgency, and has a high level of integrity.
• Strong business acumen.
• Experience handling associate relations issues and dealing with labor laws.
• Well-developed written presentation, organization, and editing skills.
• Deep analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, collaboration skills and the ability to contribute within a team setting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Pro‑active and solutions oriented. Builds trust; connects with people; likeable, high confidence, low ego, coachable.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and achieve results through others.
• Self-motivated with outstanding planning, prioritization, and time-management skills

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as assigned to ensure workload coverage. This job description does NOT constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the organizational needs and requirements of the job change.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not, and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job’s essential duties because of an ADA disability.

Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws, regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

Diversity: Safelite welcomes everyone. We value our diverse workforce and suppliers, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Learn more at Careers http://safelite.com/Careers

Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.