Director, People Experience

Sealed Air Corporation; Holyoke (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealed Air Corporation is seeking a Director of People Experience to act as a strategic partner for the North American Protective Supply Chain, ensuring HR strategy alignment across 16 plants. The role entails talent management, employee relations, and team leadership, aimed at enhancing workforce engagement and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of HR Generalist experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 3+ years of management experience in HR.
• Experience leading high-performance teams in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Support talent assessment, acquisition, and organizational strategy.
• Manage employee relations and performance management.
• Lead a team of approximately 10 HR professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship Building

Performance Management

Talent Assessment

Diversity & Inclusion

Organizational Change

Employee Engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field

Tools

PeopleSoft

ADP

e-Time

Job description

The Director, People Experience (PE) role is a strategic business partner role for the North American (NAM) Protective Supply Chain (16 plants) and local PE for the Holyoke, MA location. The role helps to drive success in the network of plants by identifying and providing employee related strategies. In addition, this role supports and leads a team responsible for implementing and executing all tactical aspects of the PE function for the network of NAM plants. This role serves as part of the NAM Protective Leadership team to support the regional NAM PE team and the HR Centers of Excellence (COE) communities.

Job Description

The Director role identifies and provides strategic support, including but not limited to:

• Strategic support for talent assessment, acquisition, and development

• Embedding Sealed Air's people strategy and providing HR guidance to the NAM Supply Chain organization

• As part of the NAM People Leadership Team, leading execution of the Sealed Air NAM HR Strategy and serving as liaison between the business, corporate HR, and HR centers of excellence

• Identifying, facilitating, and coordinating all strategic aspects of HR in NAM Protective Supply Chain, including compensation, benefits, staffing, succession, development, learning, org design, employee relations, engagement, and performance management

• Monitoring bench strength and succession planning for key network leadership roles

• Partnering with local and network leadership to drive engagement and culture change

• Acting as a close business partner to the Executive Director of Operations regarding development of the NAM Supply Chain organization and team

• Providing creative solutions to network challenges such as overtime, turnover, and job/pay structures

• Measuring and improving operational results through people-related initiatives

• Supporting headquarters leadership as needed

• Providing leadership, goal setting, coaching, and development for a team of ~10 PE professionals

The HR Director role supports, implements, and executes tactical HR functions, including but not limited to:

• Positive employee and labor relations (engagement, union avoidance, collective bargaining) for Supply Chain employees

• Performance and talent management (development, job progression, annual reviews, terminations) aligned with local practices and business processes

• Regional project coordination (policies, process, change management), in collaboration with Legal, PE, and COEs

• Partnering with TAG on hourly hiring (recruiting, onboarding, orientation)

• Learning & Organizational Capability (performance management, training delivery & design)

• Diversity & Inclusion program coordination

• HRIS deployment, including management of e-Time or other time systems

• Government compliance, internal investigations, and goodwill initiatives

• Direct and indirect supervision of PE professionals (Regional Managers, Managers, Generalists)

Qualifications

• 10 plus years of HR Generalist work experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally supporting a

multi-state network of sites.

• 3 or more years of management experience

• 3 to 5 years of HR experience leading high performance work teams in a manufacturing environment

• Strong understanding of HR laws, principles and practices

• Experience in a business partnering capacity

• Strong ability to connect HR work to operational KPIs

• Strong ability to leverage data to drive decisions and KPI improvements

Additional Qualifications

• Leadership and ability to motivate and develop staff

• Excellent technical/systems skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PeopleSoft, e-Time, ADP, SAP)

• Exceptional organizational skills

• Ability to perform independently at a high level, self-directed, self-motivated

• Experience with compensation and job leveling program redesign in a manufacturing environment

• Experienced in leading organizational change initiatives, talent assessments and processes

• Ability to travel approximately (15%) and future location mobility

• Good influencing and relationship building skills

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Packaging and Containers Manufacturing

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