HR Generalist
Chicago, IL
PHMG is recruiting a friendly, welcoming, and professional individual to take the position of Human Resources Generalist. This individual will play a vital role supporting key elements of the Human Resources offering, helping to shape the future of our team and company.
Reporting to the Head of Human Resources, this individual will play a significant role in shaping the company’s culture and impacting our growth by providing innovative and solution-based strategies and programs. This is a great role for an HR Professional who is ready to take the next step in their career and wants to help improve, shape, and build the necessary foundation to support our business and people. This position will partner with different areas of the business to develop and execute exciting HR strategies and programs across different areas including benefits, learning & development, payroll, and employee relations.
If you are driven, creative, and unafraid to think outside of the box, we want to hear from you!
What you will be doing:
- Act as the primary owner of the onboarding experience, including working with individuals as they navigate the onboarding portal to complete background checks and new hire documents, and welcoming new employees during their first day of orientation
- Maintain the HR employee database, including entry of new hires and ongoing employee changes, creating, and running reports, and ensuring the data interfaces with other internal systems
- Assist in the building, testing and ongoing utilization of all HR technology (HRIS, ATS, LMS), ensuring data integrity, analyzing workflows for process improvement opportunities, and delivering an exceptional user experience
- Act as a point of contact for employee questions with the goal that, over time, you will have the knowledge base to respond to each directly
- Assist in the maintaining and creation of employee development, culture, and recognition programs
- Assist in building, testing, and rollout of Learning & Development initiatives such as soft-skill training and management training
- Based on skill level, depth of knowledge, and interest, may assist in fielding and handling employee relations cases
- Assist in the creation and rollout of various initiatives and projects to support the company’s growth and culture
- Based on skill level, depth of knowledge, and interest, may have the opportunity to manage individuals as we continue to build out the HR team
What we look for:
- 3-4 years of proven and relevant HR experience
- Minimum high school diploma, college degree preferred
- Strong organizational, time management and computer skills
- Ability to identify and solve a variety of situations with a thorough, logical, and analytical manner
- Approach daily work with a positive outlook and exude a personal brand, to those internal and external to the organization, anchored on responsiveness, relatability and problem solving
- Adapt to changing priorities with ease and composure while continuing to meet established deadlines
- Ability to self-motivate and work independently as well as enjoy working collaboratively with team members
- Outstanding communication skills, with the confidence and ability to express ideas, problems, and solutions with clarity
- Strong computer skills, including experience with the Microsoft Office suite
- Experience with HRIS and ATS systems, Experience with LMS is a plus
- Experience with UK and Canadian policies is a plus
- A strong sense of discretion, professionalism, and good judgment to work with confidential and sensitive information
Perks of working at PHMG:
- 18 days PTO, 2 VTO days, plus 7 federal holidays, and half day following your birthday
- Complete health benefits package including employer sponsored life insurance
- 401k with company matching
- Ventra Transit Benefit program
- Exciting social scene and lively atmosphere (intramurals, happy hours, )
- On-site barber
- Free onsite gym membership
Company profile:
Established in 1998 in the UK, PHMG has become the world’s leading audio branding agency – and is now a company in hyper-growth. From our North American HQ in a prime North Michigan Avenue location, we’re expanding across the continent and beyond, making us one of Chicago’s fastest growing media companies.
We work with 36,000 clients in 39 countries across the globe, and this expansive client list includes household names of the caliber of Samsung, Audi and Adidas, as well as SMEs in every sector of the global market.
We give each of them a stellar production that combines creative copy, world-class voice artistry and an exclusive Brand-Sound-Track™ - strengthening their business identity in the most memorable, emotive way.
We do all we can to make PHMG the best place to be, so we offer all our staff a complete portfolio of PH Perks. This extensive list of benefits includes free gym membership, subsidized travel, CSR initiatives and many more exciting rewards. Our commitment to giving something back to our staff has earned us multiple awards:
- A Chicago Tribune Top Workplace (2018 and 2019)
- Best and Brightest Companies to Work For (2018 and 2019)
- Great Place to Work certified company, earned following an in-depth survey of our staff (2019)
PHMG is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
All applicants must possess current US work authorization.
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