Top Senior HR Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Lead global HR business partnering for R&D, Engineering, Product, Security, and Research organizations. Advise senior technical executives, align talent strategy with business goals, architect AI-native organizational structures, evolve career frameworks, manage succession and retention, guide complex change, and coordinate People Team centers of excellence. Lead a global HRBP team while applying people analytics and executive coaching to improve organizational health, leadership effectiveness, and workforce outcomes.

The Senior Manager, HR Compliance is responsible for developing and executing a compliance framework across the Americas, managing immigration and global mobility programs, and ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations while fostering a culture of compliance within the organization.

Own the end-to-end People lifecycle for M&A: lead HR due diligence, partner with Corporate Development, build cross-functional integration playbooks, orchestrate Recruiting/Comp/Immigration/Payroll workstreams, and design day-1 onboarding and retention programs to integrate acquired technical teams under compressed timelines.

Serve as strategic HR partner to a 2,000+ R&D organization, leading org design, performance calibration, people programs, engagement analysis, and coaching senior leaders to scale the org and improve talent outcomes.

Serves as a strategic HR advisor to senior leaders, aligning people strategy with business objectives. Leads workforce planning, talent management, organizational design, leadership coaching, employee engagement, performance management, compensation cycles, and organizational change initiatives. Partners with HR Centers of Excellence and internal teams to implement HR programs, use workforce data, resolve complex HR issues, and support risk and regulatory compliance across multiple business lines.

Partner with functional leaders to translate business strategy into people strategy. Own org design, performance management, compensation, talent development, engagement, and retention. Provide coaching on career pathing, change management, and sensitive employee issues. Use people data to generate insights and recommendations, build compliant HR policies, manage global employee relations, and collaborate with People Team COEs to deliver cohesive people programs at scale.

Serve as a strategic HR partner to senior managers, driving talent management, performance and compensation cycles, workforce planning, organizational change, and HR program execution. Provide coaching, data-driven insights, liaise with HR Centers of Excellence and internal partners, and ensure compliance with risk and regulatory standards to support business objectives and employee engagement.

Serves as a strategic HR partner to senior managers across Technology and Data business lines. Provides coaching on talent, performance, career development, workforce planning, organizational design, compensation, engagement, and change management. Leads annual people programs, delivers HR analytics insights, collaborates with HR Centers of Excellence and internal partners, and ensures compliance with risk, regulatory, audit, and control standards.

Hands-on HR generalist supporting HR operations, benefits administration, compliance, pay equity auditing, onboarding/offboarding, employee relations, and process improvement. Provide surge recruiting support, maintain HR documentation, analyze HR metrics, and use AI tools to automate and streamline People workflows across the US and Canada.

Supports daily People team operations across recruiting, onboarding, payroll assistance, benefits administration, employee relations, compliance, HRIS records, training, and employee support. Recruits frontline employees, coordinates background checks and documentation, reviews timekeeping, assists with payroll and open enrollment, maintains policies and compliance reports, and partners with managers on staffing, retention, performance, and engagement initiatives.

Serve as a trusted HR advisor to leaders and employees across assigned business groups. Responsibilities include organizational design, workforce planning, talent and succession planning, employee relations, performance management, compensation support, engagement initiatives, leadership development, workforce analytics, policy implementation, compliance, and employee training. The role collaborates with HR centers of excellence and business leaders while managing multiple priorities and supporting organizational change.

Senior HR leader responsible for full-spectrum people strategy and operations for a fully remote, unionized nonprofit. Owns HRIS/PEO, benefits, payroll, compliance, CBA administration, grievance management, employee relations, performance management, organizational design, and leads the People Operations team. Advises executives, coaches managers, oversees investigations, drives retention and DEIA-aligned people strategies, and manages vendor relationships.

Lead and rebuild HR Operations across payroll, benefits, compliance, HRIS, and workforce data for US and Canada. Modernize systems and automation, drive change management and vendor performance, support immigration and M&A integrations, design scalable HR processes and SOPs, and lead a high-performing HR Ops team to enable rapid organizational growth.

Partner with Commercial Aircraft Group leadership to develop and implement global HR strategy, talent management, organizational design, change management, and HR analytics. Lead HR initiatives and projects, coach leaders, ensure data integrity, and drive employee engagement, retention, and business performance.

Leads human resources strategy for JBT Marel’s Diversified Food & Health North American business across multiple locations. Responsibilities include workforce planning, employee engagement, talent acquisition, organizational development, succession planning, compensation, performance management, training, employee relations, policy development, compliance, and M&A support. Acts as a strategic business partner to senior leaders, drives organizational change, and oversees HR programs for approximately 1,100 U.S. employees.

Serves as a strategic HR business partner to executives and leaders, leading workforce planning, organizational design, talent and performance management, employee relations, engagement, leadership development, compliance, HR operations, analytics, and global people initiatives. The role advises leaders, mentors HR professionals, drives organizational change, improves HR processes, and supports growth, transformation, and employee experience across the organization.

Build and operate core HR processes, including onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, merit and promotion cycles, career pathing, employee recognition, learning and development, benefits support, and immigration assistance. Own the implementation and configuration of Rippling, using AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining compliant documentation, data handling, and decision-making practices. Partner closely with employees and managers in a growth-stage company.

Analyze workforce data and develop HR dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, visualizations, and automated reporting solutions. Identify trends across the employee lifecycle, evaluate engagement and employee programs, ensure data quality and compliance, and provide actionable recommendations to HR and business leaders. The role also supports employee listening strategies, reporting process improvement, data governance, and executive-level presentations.

Lead companywide recruiting and help build the organization’s people infrastructure. Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, developing compensation and retention programs, managing payroll and benefits, overseeing performance evaluations, creating onboarding and training processes, and advising leadership on employment-law compliance. The role supports a distributed team and works closely with executive and legal teams.

Lead HR operations and strategy for a US remote site, partnering with business leaders to drive employee relations, performance management, compensation, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. Implement HR programs, advise on policy and compliance, conduct investigations, track HR metrics, and manage special projects to support a People First culture.

Senior HR Business Partner supporting GTM across the Americas. Serve as trusted advisor to leaders, manage full employee lifecycle, drive talent and succession planning, support headcount and people-cost planning, analyze HR metrics, lead HR programs for growth and retention, and coach managers to improve performance.

Provide HR generalist support for headquarters and remote employees, focusing on employee relations, investigations, performance management, FMLA/ADA/workers' comp administration, HRIS recordkeeping, legal compliance, policy development, and manager consultation. Handle employee inquiries on benefits and 401(k), maintain records, and assist with trainings and documentation to ensure regulatory and corporate compliance.

Provide administrative and operational HR support including onboarding/offboarding, recruitment administration, HRIS records maintenance, reporting, training documentation, compliance assistance, and responding to routine employee inquiries while handling confidential information and managing multiple priorities in a fully remote environment.

Owns the end-to-end HR function for a distributed U.S. and New Zealand organization. Responsibilities include HR strategy, employee lifecycle processes, payroll oversight, HRIS selection and implementation, policies, internal controls, compliance, employee relations, performance management, compensation, benefits, recruiting, and onboarding. The role partners closely with the CFO, executives, managers, Finance, external counsel, vendors, and New Zealand HR support to build a scalable HR operating model.

Lead client engagements on benefits strategy, plan design, open enrollment, and administration. Stabilize operations, manage carriers/brokers, execute transitions and platform migrations, ensure compliance, advise on cost optimization and multi-state/global expansion, and expand client relationships.