Human Resources Business Partner

The Planet Group; Lake Oswego (OR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Fitness is seeking an HR Business Partner to drive a positive culture by delivering comprehensive HR services across multiple club locations. You will collaborate with club leaders to support growth, development, and an outstanding workplace experience.

You will handle employee relations, training, and leadership coaching while ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and maintaining data-driven insights to improve retention and engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field with 3+ years HR experience
• Knowledge of employment laws, HR policies, and employee relations practices
• Experience investigating employee relations matters
• Experience supporting multi-location operations
• Ability to travel regularly to different markets
• Excellent written and verbal communication; high confidentiality

Responsibilities

• Deliver HR services focused on employee growth, development, and workplace experience
• Support investigations of employee relations matters
• Guide club leadership with employment and personnel matters
• Provide training related to HR practices and leadership development
• Utilize HR data to identify opportunities to improve retention and employee experiences
• Ensure compliant HR practices across the organization

Skills

Multi-location support

Employment law knowledge

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)

Job description

• Basic knowledge of leave admin (doesn't need to be in depth)
• Experience supporting multi-location
• Knowledge of local employment laws
• Comfortable with some travel (a few times per year + as needed to local clubs for employee relations investigations)

Preferred:

• Workday
• Experience in Retail, Hospitality, or similar industry (they have success with healthcare/hospital experience as well)
• PHR/SPHR/SHRM-CP (preferred)

HR Business Partner

General Responsibilities: The Human Resource Business Partner plays a key role in driving a positive culture throughout the organization by delivering exceptional HR services focused on employee growth, development, and fostering an outstanding workplace experience. This HR role functions in a broad HR capacity, leveraging expertise in multiple HR areas including employee relations, talent acquisition, compensation, performance management, workers’ compensation, employee development, and leadership coaching.

The HR Business Partner supports day-to-day HR operations and ensures a consistent, compliant, and positive employee experience. This role provides HR support by building trusted relationships with club-level leaders across multiple Planet Fitness locations within the assigned territory. The HR Business Partner helps implement effective HR practices and fosters a people-first culture that supports both employee and organizational success.

Anticipated responsibilities outlined below

HR Support

• Interpret and apply HR policy and procedure to ensure practices are fair and consistent across the organization.
• Manage the investigation and resolution processes for employee relations situations
• Support and guide club leadership by providing direction, advice and counsel regarding employment and personnel matters

Training & Development

• Provide training related to HR practices and club leadership development
• Assist leaders with performance coaching, evaluation and development processes
• Utilize the HR information system to collect, prepare and analyze HR data to identify opportunities to improve retention and enhance employee experiences

Compliance & Policies

• Ensure that Local/State/Federal employment regulations and standards are followed and responds to regulatory inquiries (EEO, HRC, DOL, etc.)
• Manage and maintain the HR compliance scorecard for the region
• Ensure proper interviewing and hiring processes are being consistently maintained and managed across the organization

Qualifications/Requirements

• • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience with 3+ years in HR or related roles.
• • Knowledge of employment laws, HR policies, and employee relations practices. • Ability to pro-actively identify problems and take action with limited oversight
• • Prior experience investigating employee relations matters
• • Demonstrated ability to understand the overall business operation
• • Previous experience supporting multi-location operations
• • Ability to travel to different markets on a regular basis.
• • High degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and confidentiality.
• • Must be able to effectively and independently anticipate, identify, solve, and follow-through on problems. Willing to get your hands dirty and take on an assortment of roles and tasks.
• • Excellent written and verbal communication. You should be human in all communication - whether one- on-one or company-wide - but also recognize the need for nuanced messaging and matching tone to the task and audience.
• • Proficiency with Microsoft and business products including Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.