As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
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Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Team member discount
Development programs for advancement and career growth
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The HR Generalist is actively engaged in all HR processes and programs spanning all corporate functions (Merchandising, Marketing, Legal, Finance, IT, HR, and Properties). This role will investigate team member concerns and seek timely resolution with regard to employee relations issues or policy violations. The HR Generalist provides daily consultation to the organization and ensures compliance of internal policies, state, local, and federal laws. The HR Generalist is a strategic HR partner to the corporate functions and an advocate for the company and team members at large.Multiple site travel required - 10-20% expected.
What You'll be Doing:
- Investigates and resolves employee complaints or policy violations.
- Provides consultation, direction, and recommendations to leadership regarding employee relations activities, dispute resolution procedures, corrective and disciplinary actions, terminations and EEO matters affecting employment.
- Provides interpretation and partnership regarding company policies and procedures covering the areas of employee relations, compensation, benefits administration, talent development, talent management, and disability management services.
- Trains leadership on best practices regarding employee relations.
- Coaches multiple levels of leadership on how to maximize team member performance including executing Goal Setting, Mid-year and Year-end Performance Review processes, and Performance Improvement Plans.
- Track and maintain a list of all open Performance Improvement Plans (PIP’s), ensure PIP’s are created where appropriate, and report metrics on success rates, etc.
- Manages job profile creation and updates into the job library.
- Assist in the project management, reporting, analysis, execution and follow up pertaining to talent management, talent development, talent acquisition, and total rewards processes and programs.
- Coach leaders on Career Development resources for their team members, run reports and track progress of Individual Development Plans, Talent Profiles, Development goals, and overall development efforts.
- Support Sr. HR Generalists and Sr. HR Managers with projects as needed.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor's degree
- PHR or SPHR certification desirable.
- Experience in HR / employee relations required.
- Previous Case Management experience (to include corrective action processes, terminations, conflict mediation, etc.). required.
- Union experience preferred.
- Ability to present thought leadership.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently.
- Strong planning, organizational and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to listen attentively and actively.
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written as well as the ability to facilitate both small and large groups in a variety of forums including formal presentations, working meetings, business reviews and informal discussions. Demonstrated ability to design effective meetings and small group interactions including one to one discussions and conflict mediations.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships and to build a positive rapport with all levels of the organization (up, down and sideways).
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and the ability to learn HR systems applications.
Top Skills
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail.
Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again.
A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years.
So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better