Senior Manager, People

barrywehmiller; Stow (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Barry-Wehmiller seeks a Senior Leader, People to drive people strategies across our global teams, reinforcing performance, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness. You will guide workforce planning, talent practices, and lifecycle processes, ensuring policy compliance and alignment with business needs.

This role partners with executives to translate enterprise People priorities into actionable guidance and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience applying people strategies across multiple teams or locations.
• Ability to advise leaders on talent practices, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Strong collaboration with executives to align People priorities with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of People strategies across functional areas or geographic regions.
• Oversee team member life-cycle activities, compliance, and core workflows.
• Provide guidance on employee relations and risk management across locations.
• Support leaders through organizational changes and ensure clear communication and stability.
• Influence leadership decisions to improve team performance and organizational effectiveness.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Performance management

Talent development

Change management

Job description

About Us

BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry-Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose: People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers' toughest challenges as our own - delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands - trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success. Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together.

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Leader, People plays a critical role in ensuring People priorities are effectively applied and sustained across teams and locations, reinforcing performance, leadership effectiveness, and organizational capability.

Leads the execution of People strategies across functional areas or geographic regions engaging in workforce planning, talent practices, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness to ensure consistent application and alignment with business needs. Also responsible to oversee execution on team member life-cycle activities, compliance, and core workflows for consistent application, accuracy, and alignment with policies and legal requirements.

Serves as a trusted advisor and partner to leaders, works across teams and locations to identify patterns, risks, and opportunities, ensuring alignment between People priorities and how work is executed day to day.

Strengthens organizational performance by influencing leadership decisions, shaping team effectiveness, and driving improvements in how People practices are applied in practice.

Key Responsibilities

Performance & Leadership Effectiveness

• Ensure consistent and effective use of performance management practices across the business.
• Guide leaders through performance-related decisions, including complex or sensitive situations.
• Drive consistency and accountability in performance outcomes across teams and locations.
• Reinforce clarity in expectations, feedback, and accountability.
• Support leaders in improving team and individual performance.

Talent & Leadership Capability

• Ensure consistent application of enterprise talent practices including development, succession planning, and retention.
• Strengthen leadership capability through coaching, feedback, and development planning.
• Hold leaders accountable for talent outcomes including development, retention, and succession readiness.
• Assist in identifying and addressing talent gaps and risks

Partnership & Leadership Influence

• Partner with leaders to understand business priorities, workforce needs, and operational challenges.
• Translate enterprise People strategies into clear actions, expectations, and guidance for leaders.
• Provide practical guidance on organizational effectiveness, leadership approach, and team performance.
• Challenge and influence leaders to improve leadership effectiveness, team outcomes, and overall organizational performance.
• Ensure People priorities are consistently applied across functions, teams, and locations.

Employee Relations & Risk Guidance

• Reinforce a consistent approach to employee relations across the business.
• Provide guidance on complex, high-risk, or escalated employee situations.
• Ensure decisions are fair, consistent, and aligned with company policies and values.
• Partner with People Operations to ensure appropriate execution and resolution of cases.

Change Management & Business Support

• Support leaders through organizational changes, transitions, and evolving business priorities.
• Provide guidance to ensure changes are implemented clearly, consistently, and effectively.
• Reinforce communication, alignment, and stability during periods of change.
• Ensure People considerations are reflected in business decisions and operating approaches.

Integration Across People Functions

• Ensure consistency between intended practices and actual team member experience.
• Provide feedback to impro