Manager, HR Programs

What's the Short Version?

The Manager, HR Programs owns and drives a wide variety of projects and initiatives within the HR department, including new employee onboarding, employee engagement, and charitable giving. They manage by providing detailed attention to program strategy, design, implementation, and execution. The Manager, HR Programs develops strong partnerships across the organization delivering high-value, employee-centric programs.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Partner with HR leadership to provide vision, guidance, and planning to employee experience programs.
• Manage the program team, offering guidance and mentoring; lead with strategic vision and direction; provide overall prioritization of work assignments of functional team resources and activities.
• Work collaboratively with Marketing to reflect our SanMar brand across the employee experience, highlighting our brand purpose, and company's mission and values throughout employee experience programs.
• Responsible for the forecasting, tracking and alignment of budget for team programs.
• Manage the employee communications program; overseeing all-employee communications roadmap for department visibility, building & executing a strategy for SanMar TV, and maintaining department intranet site. May create various communications or event collateral.
• Manage the business continuity program; testing, educating, and updating to meet changing needs.
• Lead large scale, companywide charitable giving efforts.
• Effectively work cross-functionally with and through stakeholders to build consensus to HR programs; partner with HR business partners for a seamless integration of HR programs with broader organization initiatives.
• Negotiate priorities and support requirements for non-HRIS projects with cross-functional departments, such as marketing, E3PO (PMO), IT.
• Regularly review and improve existing HR programs to ensure they remain effective and relevant; draft proposals and business cases for new programs.
• Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in Human Resources.
• Represent the company in the community, always promoting the company in the best way possible.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 7-9 years of HR and/or HR program management experience.
• Supervisory or management experience.
• Ability to manage up, lead meetings, prioritize and handle multiple deadlines, and work independently or in a team environment.
• Highly collaborative approach that ensures all stakeholders input and engagement with project buy-in and application.
• Proven history of excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to effectively manage, develop and train professional level staff.
• Attention to detail.
• Organized and self-motivated.

What's Our Offer?

Salary Range: You`ll earn between $105,000 - $150,000 annually, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 15% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 152 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
• Life insurance
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?

Hybrid: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions.
SanMar's Eastpointe office is located near Seattle, WA and our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Quarterly travel may be required.