Human Resources Manager

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North Mankato, MN
Senior level
Information Technology
The Role
The Human Resources Manager at Taylor Corporation is responsible for aligning HR strategies with business goals, leading talent management initiatives, performance management processes, and employee engagement strategies. This role involves overseeing an HR business partner and ensuring compliance with employment laws while promoting a high-performance HR team. The position requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, particularly in a production and manufacturing environment.
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Let Us Power Your Potential

Taylor Corporation is a dynamic, diversified company with big plans for the future ― and your career. We power our employees’ potential and strive to create opportunity and security for every member of the team. If you’re ready for something bigger ― more challenge, more variety, more pathways for professional growth ― we should talk. We’re passionate about our work, we believe there is always a better way, and we’re looking for people like you.

Ready to reach your potential? It’s time to look at Taylor.

Your Opportunity: The Human Resources Manager serves as a key advisor and partner to senior leadership, aligning HR strategies with business goals to drive organizational success. This role will lead the development and implementation of HR initiatives in areas such as talent management, employee relations, employee engagement, workforce planning, and organizational development. The Human Resources Manager will oversee one HRBP direct report, fostering a high-performance HR team dedicated to supporting and advancing the needs of the business. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with strong leadership and problem-solving skills, adept at translating business needs into actionable HR strategies in a production & manufacturing environment.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Strategic HR Partnership: Act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders and employees within assigned business unit(s), ensuring HR initiatives align with organizational goals and provide meaningful impact.
  • Talent Management: Oversee strategies for talent acquisition, development, and retention, ensuring the company attracts, develops, and retains top talent.
  • Performance Management: Lead performance management processes, coaching leaders on best practices for continuous feedback, performance assessments, and employee development.
  • Direct Report Management: Provide mentorship, guidance, and performance management to the HRBP direct report, promoting their professional development and growth.
  • Employee Relations: Resolve employee relations concerns, including investigations and disciplinary actions consistent with our culture and mission.
  • Workforce Planning: Partner with the business to analyze workforce trends, understand staffing models, and implement succession planning to support the business’s long-term talent needs.
  • Employee Engagement: Drive initiatives to enhance employee engagement, improve workplace culture, and foster a positive employee experience.
  • Organizational Development: Support organizational design and change management initiatives to align team structures with business strategies and improve efficiency.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Partner with leadership to implement and support DEI initiatives, cultivating an inclusive workplace culture.
  • Policy and Compliance: Ensure HR policies and procedures comply with all federal, state, and local employment laws and align with organizational objectives. To include customer contractual requirements including Affirmative Action Plans and HIPAA compliance.
  • HR Data Analytics: Utilize HR analytics tools to provide insights into workforce trends, informing data-driven decisions and reporting findings to leadership.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner on a daily basis with HR Centers of Excellence (e.g., Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition) to deliver comprehensive HR solutions.
  • Project Leadership: Lead or support HR projects and initiatives that drive continuous improvement, operational excellence, and employee satisfaction.

You Must Have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field with 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 2 years of managing direct report(s)
    • OR equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Strong knowledge of HR principles, practices, and employment laws
  • Proven track record in strategic planning, organizational development, and change management
  • Experience managing, mentoring, and developing direct reports
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills with the ability to meet others where they are, and flex communication style based on the needs of the business
  • Analytical mindset with proficiency in HR metrics, reporting, and data analysis
  • Ability to influence senior leaders and drive initiatives across multiple teams
  • Intermediate to advanced proficiency with HRIS systems, Microsoft Office, and HR analytics tools (Experience using Workday is a plus)

We Would Also Prefer:

  • Experience providing strategic HR Support in a manufacturing environment
  • HR Certification is a plus (SHRM/HRCI)
  • Experience using Workday for HRIS/ATS
  • Bilingual capability is a plus

Key Competencies

  • Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
  • Leadership & Team Development
  • Business Acumen & Partnership
  • Communication & Interpersonal Skills
  • Organizational Design & Change Management
  • Data Analysis & Decision Making
  • Adaptability & Agility


About Taylor Corporation
One of the largest graphics communications firms in North America, Taylor’s family of companies provide a diverse set of products, services, and technologies addressing the toughest communication challenges. For nearly 50 years, Taylor has been a premier provider of powerful and innovative products, services, and expertise for individuals, businesses, and distributors large and small. Our 10,000+ employees spanning 26 states and seven countries work diligently to create the interactive, printing, and marketing solutions that have helped build some of the world’s more recognizable brands. Everything we do begins with identifying the unique priorities and needs of our customers and creating one-of-a-kind solutions. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including several health plans to choose from, dental, vision, wellness programs, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (PTO) and 64 hours of annual holiday pay.
The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

The Company
North Mankato, MN
6,589 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1975

What We Do

Taylor provides a diverse set of products, services and technologies to power the potential of the world’s leading brands. Using the latest printed and digital methods, we facilitate marketing communications of all types for businesses and consumers across a wide range of industries. You’ll see our solutions in your mailbox, your email inbox, in retail settings and on your mobile device.

Driven by Glen Taylor’s unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, Taylor Corporation has grown from a single small business in 1975 to one of the nation’s largest privately held companies today. What started as a humble printer of wedding invitations and business cards is now a highly diversified leader in the field of business communications. However, while Taylor's capabilities have changed dramatically in the last 45 years, our core purpose remains the same ― to create opportunity and security for our employees.

Taylor also continuously invests in technologies and production methods that enable us to shrink our environmental footprint. This commitment shows in the way we divert tons of waste to energy production, source responsibly harvested forest products and work to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions year over year. The result is a culture of sustainability that guides our decision making and ensures that we take the long-term view in everything we do

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