The HR Advisor will play a crucial role in supporting the assigned client groups by providing expert advice and guidance on a wide range of HR-related matters. The HR Advisor will be responsible for delivering high-quality HR services and solutions that align with the company's goals and objectives including associate relations, documentation, onboarding, training, benefits administration, leaves of absence, associate engagement and retention. The HR Advisor will consult with managers to ensure compliance with company practices and policies. The HR Advisor is also responsible for providing strategic support such as advice and counsel to associates and managers related to federal, state and local laws, regulations and court decisions applicable to labor law, employment law, wage and hour laws.
Primary Accountabilities:
- Provides expert advice and guidance to managers and associates on HR policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.
- Provide coaching and support in response to manager and associate requests for assistance in dealing with performance, conduct, and dependability concerns.Partners with people leaders and COEs to facilitate Leave of Absence requests and Workers Compensation.
- Maintains and reports metrics as related to area of responsibility on exit interviews, stay interviews, associate engagement, headcount, retention, turnover, accident frequency rating, workers' compensation, etc.
- Uses trend data to create HR interventions to support health of assigned client groups/locations.
- Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law.
- Attends and participates in employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, assessments and investigations. Follows HR Compliance created process, procedures and documents. Provides feedback on the processes to HR Compliance team for improvement.
- Reviews, tracks, and documents compliance with mandatory and non-mandatory training, continuing education, and work assessments. This may include safety training, anti-harassment training, professional licensure, and aptitude exams and certifications.
- Performs routine tasks required to administer and execute human resource programs including but not limited to compensation, benefits, and leave; disciplinary matters; disputes, assessments and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, and morale, occupational health and safety, and training and development.
- Facilitates the benefits annual open enrollment process and ensures 100% associates are enrolled in benefits for the following year by the communicated due date.
- Support the company culture, initiate and support culture-based activities. Partners with the Corporate Communications Events Associate to cultivate associate engagement at the facilities they support.
- Facilitates new hire orientation and compliance training.
- Responds to employment-related inquiries from associates, supervisors, and managers, referring complex and/or sensitive matters to the appropriate staff.
- Conducts stay and exit interviews.
- Submits and manages workers' compensation claims for the facilities they support.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required; PHR, SHRM-CP or other certification preferred
- 5-8 years of human resource experience and/or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to complete the major responsibilities/essential functions of the position.
- Thorough understanding of HR principles, practices and regulations
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization
- Ability to meet deadlines, and manage multiple priorities including day-to-day tasks and ongoing projects.
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Intermediate computer skills in MS Office and Google suite.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and HRIS systems
Individual Competencies:
- Integrity: Gains the trust of others by taking responsibility for own actions and telling the truth.
- Authenticity: Builds legitimacy by being positive, trustworthy, and promoting openness through honest and ethical relationships.
- Conflict Management: Encourages healthy and productive conflict to produce the best possible solution while managing and resolving unhealthy conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
- Problem Solving: Gathers and analyzes information to generate and evaluate potential solutions to problems, issues and challenges while weighing the accuracy and relevance of the facts, data and information.
- Inclusivity: Actively seeks to include and engage everyone regardless of backgrounds, cultures, or demographics to leverage the wealth of knowledge, insights and perspectives of a diverse workplace to spark creativity and propel innovation in an open and trusting environment.
- Teamwork: Builds relationships and works cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives to build and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results.
- Innovative: Ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies.
- Urgency: Transfers mission to action by acting clearly and decisively to analyze and implement solutions regardless of pressure or uncertainty and maintains a sense of urgency to complete tasks, accomplish goals, and act in ambiguous and complex situations.
- Influence: Persuades or convinces others to support an idea, agenda, or direction through establishing credibility, using data and facts for support, directly addressing a person's concerns or issues, and making connections while wielding power and authority in an effective and fair manner.
- Influential Communication: Fosters open communication, speaks truthfully and with one voice through clear and consistent messages, listens to others and values all opinions while acting in a respectful manner to influence an outcome, impact, or effect, and responds appropriately to concerns of others.
- Judgment: The ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions. It is what enables a sound choice in the absence of clear-cut, relevant data or an obvious path. It is the exercise of critical thinking, analysis and assessment of implications, identification of patterns, making connections of underlying issues, and the ownership of the outcome.
- Empathy: A deep appreciation for another's situation and point of view, a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing and the ability to sense others' feelings and how they see things.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.
While performing the duties of this job, the associate is:
- Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands or arms.
- Regularly required to talk or hear and read instructions on a computer monitor and/or printed on paper.
- Occasionally required to stand, kneel or stoop, and lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Regularly required to view items at an extremely close range and must be able to adjust and readjust focus.
As an Inmar Associate, you:
- Put clients first and consistently display a positive attitude and behaviors that demonstrate an awareness and willingness to listen and respond to clients in order to meet their short-term and long-term needs, requirements and exceed their expectations.
- Treat clients and teammates with courtesy, consideration and tact; you also have the ability to perceive the needs of internal and external clients and communicate effectively with the objective of delighting and retaining the client.
- Build collaborative relationships and work cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives, develop and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results.
- Set and attain achievable, yet aggressive, goals with a sense of urgency and accountability.
- Understand that results are important and focus on turning mission into action to achieve results following the principles of agile, dynamic execution while consistently complying with quality, service and productivity standards to meet deadlines and exceed expectations by giving our clients the best possible outcome.
- Support a safe work environment by following safety rules and regulations and reporting all safety hazards.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.
What We Do
We reimagine everyday business challenges through advanced analytics, technology-enabled and market-driven solutions built to solve some of industries’ biggest obstacles to growth. Inmar Intelligence’s customer-centric approach is evident through our success helping companies dynamically engage audiences, build brand loyalty, create efficiencies and drive profitable growth.
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