Top Senior HR Jobs in Rochester, NY

Provides outsourced HR consulting and support to clients across benefits administration, performance management, onboarding, offboarding, compliance, HRIS optimization, documentation, and general HR operations. Builds client relationships, addresses HR concerns, researches employment regulations, improves processes, and contributes to service-line growth and business development.

Own end-to-end workplace investigations involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and policy violations. Advise leaders and HR partners on employee relations, accommodations, performance, and separations; maintain case documentation and tracking; identify organizational trends; support policy improvements and manager training; and provide impartial HR-for-HR oversight. Partner with Legal and external counsel on sensitive matters while using AI tools to assist investigation planning, evidence summaries, and reporting.

The HR Manager will lead day-to-day HR operations across two Rochester manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, investigations, performance management, compliance, leave and workers’ compensation administration, workforce planning, training, engagement, metrics, and post-acquisition integration. The role partners closely with operations leaders, frontline supervisors, employees, and corporate HR to strengthen people processes and workplace culture.

Serve as a strategic HR partner advising business units on employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, and organizational development. Drive inclusive culture, conduct investigations, support manager coaching and development, ensure policy and regulatory compliance, and provide HR policy guidance. Mentor others and lead complex HR initiatives.

Serves as the HR business partner for a manufacturing site, advising leaders and employees on policies, compliance, employee relations, staffing, compensation, benefits, and workforce planning. The role manages HR processes through ADP, supports recruiting and leave administration, develops training, analyzes HR metrics, and ensures consistent policy application. It supervises one to two direct reports and collaborates with HR and operations teams on organizational improvements.

Serves as a key HR partner supporting employee lifecycle processes, HR programs, employee relations, compliance, workforce reporting, and day-to-day operations. Maintains Workday or Dayforce data, assists with performance and compensation programs, supports investigations and performance management, and leads HR projects. Provides guidance to managers and employees, analyzes workforce metrics, ensures legal compliance, and improves HR services and employee experience.

Leads HR strategy and serves as the primary business partner for manufacturing and operations leadership. Oversees talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, organizational development, succession planning, engagement, compensation, compliance, change management, and HR analytics. Manages and develops a three-person HR team while advising leaders across manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, warehouse, purchasing, and planning.

Manages human resources and business office operations for an assisted living facility. Responsibilities include recruitment, onboarding, payroll, benefits, employee relations, compliance, performance management, HRIS administration, resident billing, collections, account reconciliation, census records, cash handling, and financial reporting. The role also supports employee training, regulatory documentation, workers’ compensation and unemployment claims, resident admissions, and facility policies.

Serves as a strategic HR advisor to leaders across the organization, shaping workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, talent strategies, employee experience, and HR programs. Uses HR systems, data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies to inform decisions and improve processes. Leads cross-functional HR initiatives, change management, compliance efforts, and stakeholder engagement while supporting talent attraction, development, engagement, and retention.

Provides strategic and hands-on HR partnership to Engineering, Product, and R&D leaders. Responsibilities include manager coaching, performance management, employee relations, talent and compensation programs, engagement surveys, exit meetings, organizational effectiveness, risk identification, and policy application. The role supports globally distributed teams during a six-month transition period and requires strong judgment, confidentiality, communication, and operational execution.

Provides strategic HR partnership to business directors and senior leaders across a complex, multi-site logistics operation. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organisational design, talent and succession, leadership development, employee relations, change management, people analytics, and coaching HR professionals. The role translates business priorities into measurable people strategies, supports senior decision-making, and requires regular travel across the South and East Midlands.

Provides strategic HR consultation across employee relations, organizational development, compensation, staffing, compliance, and change management. Advises managers and employees on policies, performance, corrective actions, and development. Leads complex employee relations matters, training programs, organizational change initiatives, and enterprise-wide HR projects while ensuring legal and equitable practices.

Leads HR business partnering for global business units, aligning people strategy with business goals. Advises executives, implements HR programs, manages cross-functional HR collaboration, supports organizational change, uses analytics for decision-making, and ensures employment-law compliance. The role requires strong business acumen, executive influence, global HR experience, confidentiality, and expertise in HR technologies.

Provides global HR administrative and coordination support across the employee lifecycle. Responsibilities include preparing employee documentation, supporting employee relations case intake, maintaining confidential records, coordinating employment and regulatory documentation, tracking follow-ups, assisting with audits, generating HR reports, resolving data discrepancies, and partnering with HR stakeholders across multiple countries.

Partners with senior leaders to align people strategies with business goals, coaches leaders, manages performance and employee relations, uses people data to guide decisions, and leads organizational design, workforce planning, talent, engagement, and global HR initiatives.

Supports and optimizes Workday and other HR technology platforms, develops reports, dashboards, metrics, and workforce analytics, and maintains HR data quality, governance, security, and reporting accuracy. Partners with HR, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders on requirements, system enhancements, releases, integrations, process improvements, and data insights. Provides functional troubleshooting, documentation, user guidance, compliance reporting, audits, and recommendations that improve workforce outcomes and HR effectiveness.

Own end-to-end learning and enablement programs, including manager development, onboarding, workshops, People Team playbooks, and learning architecture. Partner with People Business Partners to address talent gaps, operate the LMS and content library, apply AI to learning workflows, and measure program impact. The role requires strategic business partnership, instructional design, hands-on program delivery, stakeholder influence, and continuous improvement of workforce learning.

Serves as a strategic HR partner for dispersed employees, leaders, and clients. Responsibilities include employee relations, performance management, compliance, employee lifecycle administration, investigations, policy development, HR program implementation, and collaboration with payroll, benefits, and talent acquisition. The role requires multi-state employment law knowledge, government contracting experience, and the ability to support tribal or Native-owned organizations with culturally responsive HR solutions.

Directs day-to-day HR operations as the Chief People Officer’s primary operational partner. Leads HR staff and HRBP growth, oversees employee relations, ensures employment-law and policy compliance, manages the employee handbook and benefits integration, automates HR workflows, supports culture and engagement, and advises leaders on complex employee matters. Serves as deputy to the Chief People Officer and maintains consistent HR processes, accountability, and coverage across the organization.

Leads workplace accommodation cases from intake through implementation and follow-up. Evaluates ADA-related requests, reviews medical documentation, coordinates leave matters, recommends accommodations, maintains confidential records, and advises employees, managers, HR, Legal, and business leaders. Develops procedures, training, tracking tools, reporting, and manager guidance while supporting employee relations cases and compliance audits.

Leads workplace accommodation cases from intake through implementation, documentation, follow-up, and closure. Evaluates requests under ADA and related laws, manages medical documentation, coordinates leave requests, recommends accommodations, and partners with HR, Legal, managers, Facilities, vendors, and Employee Relations. Develops procedures, training, templates, reporting, and manager guidance while maintaining confidentiality and ensuring consistent, compliant employee experiences.

Build and maintain a pipeline of senior HR executives for interim, fractional, and full-time engagements. Target leaders who develop enterprise HR and people strategies, oversee talent management, shape culture and employee experience, lead organizational design and transformation, ensure HR compliance, and partner with CEOs and boards. Candidates should have extensive HR leadership experience, executive presence, and the ability to drive human-centric, AI-enabled workforce strategies across industries.

Serve as a strategic and hands-on HR advisor to multiple departments. Manage employee relations, investigations, performance plans, leave matters, review and pay cycles, workforce reporting, budgeting, compliance audits, engagement, retention, talent assessment, and organizational change. Advise executives and managers while ensuring alignment with US employment regulations. Use generative AI tools for analysis, research, reporting, and communication.

Serve as US HR SME managing compliance, HRIS (HiBob), PEO liaison (ADP TotalSource), onboarding/offboarding, payroll and benefits (including 401(k)), employee relations and ER cases (PIPs), policy updates, audits, and US-specific HR projects while partnering with global HR and payroll teams.

Manages human resources programs and partners with museum leaders on employee and labor relations, union matters, performance management, learning and development, compensation, organizational design, recruiting, and compliance. Administers ADP and Culture Amp, leads performance reviews, analyzes HR metrics, supports resource planning, and drives inclusive culture and organizational change.