Human Resource Director

Human Resources Director

The Human Resources Director serves as the senior Human Resources leader for Flynn Pizza Hut and a strategic partner to the Brand President, Division Vice Presidents, senior operations leadership team, field leaders, and Flynn Group HR leadership.

This role requires a proven leader with demonstrated success operating at a strategic level in a complex, multi-unit environment. The HR Director is expected to already be delivering measurable business and talent results, influencing senior leaders, developing successors, strengthening organizational capability, and leading large-scale people initiatives.

The HR Director owns the people strategy for the brand, with a focus on organizational effectiveness, leadership development, talent management, succession planning, culture, employee engagement, workforce planning, employee relations, and risk management. This leader provides direction to the field HR Business Partner team while building strong partnerships across Operations, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Total Rewards, HR Operations, and other Flynn Group Support Center functions.

Success in this role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, independence, confidentiality, disciplined execution, and a consistent field presence. The HR Director must translate business priorities into practical people strategies and drive results through influence, accountability, coaching, and effective partnership.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Brand President and Flynn Pizza Hut leadership team on organizational structure, leadership effectiveness, talent, culture, workforce planning, employee engagement, business performance, and risk.
• Serve as the primary Human Resources partner to assigned Division Vice Presidents and their leadership teams, providing strategic counsel on talent, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, employee engagement, and business performance.
• Translate brand business priorities into an integrated people strategy aligned with Flynn Group and Flynn Pizza Hut objectives.
• Use workforce, turnover, staffing, engagement, succession, and performance data to identify trends, recommend actions, and measure progress.
• Partner with senior leaders to assess organizational needs, identify performance gaps, and establish short-term and long-term people priorities.
• Support organizational changes, growth initiatives, acquisitions, market transitions, and other business priorities impacting Flynn Pizza Hut Team Members.
• Influence senior operational leaders, navigate complex business challenges, exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and build credibility through consistent execution and results.
• Operate with a high degree of independence by prioritizing effectively, identifying opportunities proactively, and driving execution with limited day-to-day oversight.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Own the brand's talent management and succession planning strategy, with a strong focus on building an internal bench for Restaurant General Manager, Area Director, Market Leader, Division Vice President, and other key leadership positions.
• Establish and lead a consistent talent-review process across the brand, including succession depth, readiness, performance, potential, retention risk, and development priorities.
• Partner with senior Operations leaders and the Manager of Development to regularly assess talent pipelines, organizational bench strength, readiness, and succession risk.
• Support leaders in creating meaningful Individual Development Plans for high-potential and emerging talent.
• Help define roles, leadership levels, competencies, and career paths as the organization grows and evolves.
• Coach Operations leaders on talent assessment, performance management, succession planning, development, and accountability.
• Deliver measurable business and talent outcomes, including retention improvement, succession depth, leadership development, internal promotions, bench strength, and organizational capability building.
• Track outcomes including internal promotion rates, bench strength, critical-role readiness, regrettable turnover, leadership vacancies, and succession coverage.

The employee is responsible for performing the essential responsibilities of this position with or without reasonable accommodation. The employee should notify Flynn Pizza Hut of any reasonable accommodation requests and may need to provide supporting medical documentation. This job description may not list all duties for this position and the employee in this position may be required to perform other duties to meet business needs. Flynn Pizza Hut reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either the employee or Flynn Pizza Hut may terminate employment at any time.