HR Manager

Retail Excellence Corp; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Excellence Corp in Peoria, IL seeks an HR Manager intern to own Change Management initiatives, surface actionable insights, and guide where to focus next. You’ll partner with a strong team and manage end-to-end projects with impact across the business.

You’ll contribute by shaping long-term strategy, steering talent management efforts, and mentoring teams. Expect hands-on mentorship, a competitive compensation of $82,000–$117,000, robust benefits, and clear performance metrics guiding

Qualifications

• 6+ years steering business projects end to end.
• Hands-on experience with Talent Management and Exit Interviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a managerial capacity.
• Ability to thrive independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Identify friction in the Peoria customer journey and bill back to fix.
• Streamline workflows to run with minimal hands-on intervention.
• Challenge assumptions underlying plans.
• Contribute to shaping an 8-year strategy without slide overload.
• Choose the single metric this quarter's effort hinges on.
• Highlight the top 2–3 HR metrics to gauge initiative success.
• Spot and unclog bottlenecks in standups.

Skills

End-to-end project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Talent management experience

Communication skills

Performance measurement

Job description

As a HR Manager, you'll dig into the numbers, surface what matters, and recommend where Retail Excellence Corp should focus next. You'll take full ownership of Change Management initiatives, work alongside a strong team, and earn $82,000 - $117,000 in this internship role.

Key Responsibilities

• Find the friction in the Peoria customer journey and bill it back to a fix
• Carve a playfully-serious workflow down until it runs without your hands on it
• Flag the assumption in the plan that everything else quietly rests on
• Shape the 8-year strategy without turning it into a slide museum
• Decide the one number this quarter's business effort lives or dies by
• Surface the two or three metrics that decide whether a HR Manager bet paid off
• Spot the bottleneck nobody mentions in the standup and unclog it

What You'll Bring

• Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team
• 6 or more years steering business projects end to end
• Hands-on familiarity with Talent Management, sharpened by Exit Interviews side projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort being measured against a clear manager bar
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a manager capacity

Retail Excellence Corp makes Critical Thinking look simple, which anyone in business knows is the forever-learning hardest thing to pull off. We protect Fridays for learning, so spend them chasing Stress Management or Critical Thinking, your call.

You get $82,000 - $117,000, a robust benefits suite, and hands-on mentorship aimed at making you a stronger business professional.

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