Senior Human Resources Generalist

MP: Wired for HR; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to support HR operations. This role involves recruitment, employee relations, and training in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is bilingual, experienced in HR practices, and thrives in non-structured settings.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Profit sharing

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 8+ years of HR experience required.
• 5+ years of recruiting experience required.
• Previous experience in logistics is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with directors to align talent with organizational goals.
• Own the recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Facilitate performance management programs.

Skills

Fluency in English and Spanish

Strong written communication

Project management skills

Time management skills

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s degree

Tools

MS Office (especially Excel)

ADP HRIS platforms

Job description

This range is provided by MP: Wired for HR. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$80,000.00/yr - $120,000.00/yr

About our Client:

Our client is a highly specialized logistics company that caters to the beverage alcohol industry. Founded in 1930, it has extensive expertise in all facets of beverage alcohol logistics and compliance, from importation and distribution to warehousing, inventory management, and delivery at retail. Today our partner has global reach, with 150-plus employees managing over 10 million cases annually.

From the beginning, the company’s focus has been on building long-term relationships with customers, and this core tenet remains just as critical today. Similarly, we recognize that nothing happens without our people and that our team members are our most important asset. We’re committed to building a culture that recognizes, respects, and rewards our employees. We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits coverage including medical, dental, 401K, profit sharing, and tuition reimbursement.

Job Summary:

The Senior HR Generalist position is responsible for directly supporting the day-to-day operation of the Human Resources (HR) department and providing overall HR service delivery to our most important asset: our employees. This is a true generalist position that acts as both a business partner, subject matter expert, and is involved in all functional areas of HR including, but not limited to: recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, employee engagement and communications, employee relations, facilitation of leaves and worker comp activity, benefits consultation, performance management, policy advice and development, training and development, HR compliance, and HRIS. We are seeking a bi-lingual, people-oriented HR professional who is comfortable working in a non-structured setting, but also adept in helping develop the necessary structure. This is an onsite position and is full-time, regular, exempt position and is eligible for full benefits.

Essential Functions:

• HR Business Partnership: Collaborate with key stakeholders (Directors and Managers) to ensure effective HR business consultation. Provide ongoing support to align talent with organizational goals. Effective partnerships should enhance organizational efficiency, foster a positive work environment, enable career development, and contribute to the overall success of the company.
• Recruiting and Onboarding: process ownership of the recruitment and onboarding processes. Independently partner and communicate with hiring managers and candidates to match strategy to talent and fill open jobs timely.
• Engagement and Event Planning: Organize and plan employee engagement events. Own the annual engagement calendar and ensure all activities are appropriately planned and executed in an effort aimed at keeping our workforce engaged.
• Internal Communications: Maintain internal communication boards to effectively communicate important and entertaining information to keep our employees informed and engaged.
• Performance Management: Facilitate performance management programs including keeping everyone informed to our annual cycle, advising managers and employees to support the process, and consult and partner with managers to enable the disciplinary process if appropriate.
• Employee Relations: Working in collaboration with sr. leadership, lead and conduct investigations related to employee relations, maintain documentation based on accepted legal standards, and recommend courses of action to Chief People Officer.
• Training and Development: Design, research, facilitate and/or enable employee development and training. Establish an annual training calendar and work with teams to ensure good attendance. Facilitate and recommend utilizing online training tools.
• Workers’ compensation and leaves of absence: Partnering internally with payroll and other managers, take actions as responsible party tied to certain operational tasks, i.e., investigating incidents, communicating with employees and managers, planning staffing levels with managers, etc. Work with payroll to ensure we are appropriately tracking the claims.
• Continuous Improvement: Continue sustainable and scalable process development and implement a continuous improvement mindset to enhance existing processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience required, Master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of general, applicable HR experience and genuine interest in supporting all functional areas of HR are required.
• 5+ years of recruiting experience required.
• Previous experience in warehousing, transportation, supply chain, and logistics is highly preferred.
• Experience with workers compensation and leave of absences.
• Experience navigating issues related to employee relations or performance.
• Good business acumen to translate HR actions to economic impact.
• <10% travel required. We would prefer the successful candidate to be known and have a physical presence at the other facility (Mansfield, MA).

Required Skills:

• Fluency in communicating (both verbal and written) in both English and Spanish languages is required. Comfortable with public speaking as we need this position to help communicate important messages to our diverse employee population.
• Strong written, communication, project and time management skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to effectively take a project from ideation through execution – managing timelines, resources, expectations, and deliverables.
• Highly Proficient with MS Office products (especially Excel) and other application software applications such as HRIS platforms (ADP) applicant tracking systems, and benefit administration systems.
• The ability to independently lead and manage smaller ad hoc events on their own with limited supervision.
• Able to communicate concepts and details across internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage projects from ideation through to completion.
• The ability to think strategically and resourcefully to develop new and creative lead generation ideas.
• Highly professional; able to use good judgment and maintain a high level of confidentiality and sensitivity.
• Ability to adapt to a growing and shifting ambiguous environment and handle competing priorities.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Administrative and Human Resources

• Industries

  Human Resources Services

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