About Sara Lee Frozen Bakery:
Sara Lee desserts have always stood for incredible flavor and superior value in the frozen food aisle and away from home markets. The Sara Lee Frozen Bakery collection of top brands includes Sara Lee®, Chef Pierre®, Van’s®, Bistro Collection®, Superior on Main® and Cyrus O’Leary’s®.
Sara Lee Frozen Bakery is proud to take these iconic brands into a new era and to continue the evolution that transformed one small Chicago bakery into an American institution. Using carefully sourced ingredients and time-honored recipes, the company is committed to making life’s moments a little sweeter, putting its customers first and discovering new ways to make everyone’s favorite foods even better.
Working for Sara Lee:
Our vision is to be the world’s most beloved bakery by creating irresistible foods, growing with our customers, and delivering value for all. We will achieve success through collaboration and innovation in an environment where employees feel empowered to execute with speed. We believe that each of us has unique points of difference and experience to offer. We believe that there is always a better way, and we will never be satisfied with status quo. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, continually seek process improvements and a strong sense of customer service, then this is the right type of environment for you.
Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Human Resources Manager for our manufacturing facility in Tarboro, NC. Senior Human Resources Leaders at Sara Lee Frozen Bakery possess a strong business mindset and exceptional partnership skills--which they rely upon to develop strategies for an innovative, flexible, and dynamic organization.
The Senior HR Manager owns all business partner accountabilities including organizational design, people development, performance management, and engagement and retention for employees. The Senior HR Manager is responsible for leading the site's positive Employee Relations strategy and ensuring a culture of engaged employees. They serve as a critical member of the site leadership team which drives the strategy and direction for the bakery. Key HR priorities for the site include executing the workforce strategy, engaging and developing team members, and building HR capability as a partner to the business. Our Tarboro bakery is a non-union facility with multiple production lines and over 700 employees. The site is an industry leader in delivery of high-quality products with a range of desserts for our foodservice, in-store bakery, and retail businesses.
The Senior HR Manager also has enterprise-wide responsibilities across three key areas. 1) They will serve as the HR leader responsible for strategic oversight and delivery of Environmental, Health, and Safety programs and support for all four bakeries. They will lead initiatives that reinforce a safety-first culture across the organization, partnering closely with all bakery site leaders and guiding other HR managers. 2) They will lead best practice sharing and implementation as related to employee engagement and retention initiatives across all bakeries. 3) This leadership position will also be responsible for ensuring coordination and administrative consistency of positive employee relations training and programs across all bakeries.
Key Accountabilities:
In this role you will provide HR leadership to the site, including:
- Serve as a member of the site leadership team, partnering with cross functional leaders to drive business performance using business acumen, strong HR knowledge, communications, and change management expertise.
- Manage the plant HR and EHS department with 5 direct reports (1 Safety Manager, 2 HR Generalists, 1 HR Coordinator, 1 Trainer).
- Lead key HR initiatives in partnership with the Director, HR Operations in support of all bakery locations including employee engagement, workforce planning, succession planning and staffing.
- Serve as EHS functional liaison for Manufacturing Operations, providing strategic oversight and leadership of programs and initiatives that reinforce a safety-first culture across the company.
- Ensure collaboration and consistency of positive employee relations across bakeries through strategic training and programs.
- Partner with the Plant Manager to develop a high performing site leadership team and engaging leaders at all levels.
- Provide individual coaching needs and identify training and development needs for teams.
- Lead HR initiatives in partnership with the corporate HR team (Talent Management, Total Rewards, etc.)
- Partner with the Operations Leadership Team to provide strategic Employee Relations expertise to achieve desired operational outcomes.
- Lead culture change as part of a journey to increase manufacturing performance through process improvement.
- Develop the capability of our plant operators through employee development, process improvement and work system evolution.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in human resource management, business, or related area required. Master’s in Human Resources/Industrial Relations or MBA preferred.
- Proven track record of progressive HR skills development and specialty expertise.
- Experience providing actionable advice to senior leaders based on key business strategies.
- Must be knowledgeable of best practice HR systems, tools and processes.
- Demonstrated learning agility.
- Proficient in employee relations and performance and talent management.
- Comfortable with abstract concepts.
Qualifications:
- Possesses a minimum of ten (10) years of human resources experience working in progressive, complex and growth-oriented businesses.
- Minimum of five (5) years as a human resources manager in a manufacturing environment.
- Deep human resources expertise in all facets of the function with a proven track record in employee relations and all areas of talent management from recruitment, retention, organizational development and training.
- Advanced knowledge of human resources law and experience managing complex employee relations issues.
- Demonstrates a positive, results-oriented style and have a successful track record of accomplishments, including successfully driving a high-performance organization.
- Has a track record in managing and coaching diverse teams.
- Accustomed to working in an environment with progressive, creative human resources practices.
- Ability to drive and impact organizational change across multiple locations/sites
- Must be successful in working cross-functionally in lean, complex and highly matrixed environment. Possesses sensitivity to working with individuals from different cultures.
- Combines human resources management expertise with well-developed business acumen and demonstrated experience partnering closely with the business they support to drive organizational change and success.
- Ability to work strategically as well as assuming a hands-on, roll up your sleeves approach. Strong sense of urgency and accountability.
- Strength in prioritization skills and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective coaching and influencing skills and well developed analytical skills with financial acumen.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal presentation and formal written communications. Excellent interpersonal and listening skills and the ability to build effective, collaborative working relationships across an organization.
- Effective computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Must be able to utilize these programs independently to analyze data, refine reports, draft communications, and project plans.
The successful candidate for the Senior HR Manager position will be a proactive and solutions-oriented individual who possesses high performance standards for themselves and others. They are comfortable digging into the data and details to execute as well as zooming out to plan the big picture. They must have strong personal values and ethics to guide decision-making and influence outcomes. The successful candidate will be an experienced HR and Safety leader with a desire to make an impact and is excited by our company value of “there’s always a better way.”
Personal Attributes:
The Sara Lee Leader is one who:
- Role Models Integrity - Creates a culture of respect and inclusion, where all team members are empowered to contribute.
- Masters their Craft - Continually develops their skills and expertise to drive self, team, and company forward. Is intellectually curious, asking questions to inspire a better way.
- Values Partnerships - Frames the tough issues and works productively through them. Paves the way for their team to build relationships and collaborate effectively.
- Behaves Like a Business Owner - Perseveres toward a goal, despite obstacles and distraction.
- Navigates Change – Adapts quickly to address the most critical business needs. Leads the charge around capabilities, processes, and systems.
Sara Lee Frozen Bakery provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.