Human Resources Manager, Business Partner

Lee Kum Kee USA; California (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

10 Paid Holidays

5 Sick Days

Job summary

Lee Kum Kee USA in City of Industry, CA, is seeking an experienced HR Manager, Business Partner to provide people solutions and partner with Sales, Marketing, and corporate functions to build a capable, engaged, and agile team.

This role leads HR strategies, talent management, workforce planning, employee relations, and compliance, while coaching managers to develop careers and maintain regulatory compliance in a fast-paced consumer goods environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, or related discipline from an accredited 4-year university.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as an HR Business Partner in a fast-paced environment, Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in performance management, training & development, workers’ compensation, leave of absence, recruitment, employment relations, and investigation.
• Strong knowledge of HR legal compliance and federal/state employment laws/regulations.
• PHR certification or ability to obtain within one year of employment.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with teams.

Responsibilities

• Strategic alignment with senior leadership to implement HR strategies across business units.
• Advocate for corporate values and culture, driving programs to raise employee engagement.
• Talent management and succession planning to attract, develop, and retain talent.
• Lead annual performance reviews, workforce planning, and organizational change initiatives.
• Provide guidance and coaching to managers on addressing individual and organizational needs.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws and manage investigations when needed.

Skills

Strategic HR

Employee relations

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related

Tools

HRIS (ADP / SuccessFactors)

Job description

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 300 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in City of Industry, CA with more than 500 employees (Americas Zone). We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

BENEFITS

• Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan through Principal
• Ten (10) Paid Holidays
• Five (5) Sick Days

POSITION SUMMARY

The HR Manager, Business Partner position is responsible for providing people and organization solutions and supporting the Business Units, Sales, Marketing, and other corporate functions in building a highly capable, engaged, and agile team to achieve its business targets. The HR Manager Business Partner serves as a functional expert on all HR related issues. The successful HR Manager Business Partner acts as an employee champion and change agent. The role assesses and anticipates people and organization needs, develops, and implements integrated solutions to address these needs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strategic alignment: Collaborate with senior leadership to create and implement HR strategies that support the overall business objectives of the business units and corporate functions.
• Being a Lee Kum Kee corporate value and culture advocate, implement programs and initiatives to ensure employee culture awareness and behaviors.
• Talent management: focus on attracting, developing, and retaining talent, particularly in high-demand areas like field sales, marketing, etc.
• Facilitate the annual objective setting, regular review, and year-end performance appraisal process to build a high-performing organization.
• Assess capability gaps, work with related functions, and the HR Learning and Development team in developing and implementing effective programs and solutions to build organizational capabilities.
• Lead and facilitate people and organization change initiatives.
• Facilitate the annual employee engagement survey, results analysis, and improvement action planning to improve employee engagement continuously.
• Act as employee advocate, listen to employee and answer employee questions, create solutions to address employee concerns individually and systematically.
• Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity, and improve retention.
• Manages and resolves employee relationship issues. Conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations and provides immediate and long-term solutions.
• Facilitate the talent review and succession planning process to ensure a sustainable leadership pipeline, support managers and employees in creating effective individual or collective development plans and actions to build career paths for key talents.
• Provide guidance and coaching to support managers and supervisors in proactively addressing individual and organization needs and becoming highly effective people managers.
• Workforce Planning: use data and evidence to identify workforce needs, organization size and capability planning, and address future challenges.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of federal and state employment laws & regulations related to day-to-day management of employees to reduce legal risks and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Reports, manages, and monitors all workers’ compensation case files and leave of absence cases, follows through on all open claims and leaves.
• Lead the development and implementation of various human resources policies, procedures, technology solutions.
• Work closely with the HR CoE teams (Talent Acquisition, Rewards, Learning and Development), and Employee Shared Services and Administrative team to implement various HR programs and initiatives.
• Other duties or projects may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each major responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major responsibilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, or related discipline from an accredited 4-year university.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as an HR Business Partner in a fast-paced environment, Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in multiple human resource disciplines, including performance management, training & development, workers’ compensation, leave of absence, recruitment, employment relations, and investigation.
• Demonstrated understanding and application of HR legal compliance; maintained and expanded knowledge and understanding of existing and proposed federal and state employment laws/regulations.
• Certification in PHR or the ability to obtain PHR certification within one year of employment is required.
• Strong logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• A self-starter, fast learner, and able to work independently with minimal supervision, with a can-do and learning attitude.
• Collaborative, responsive, and proactive team player; strong ownership and high integrity.
• Able to handle confidential information; attention to detail is a must.
• Well-organized, able to prioritize tasks and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced work environment.
• Proficient in MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Visio; ADP, Success Factor, or other HRIS systems, including running ad hoc reports.

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.