Human Resources Business Partner

Human Resources Business Partner

Are you passionate about engaging with people and making a difference in their employee experience?

The Human Resources Business Partner is a key member of the HR Service Delivery team, providing support and guidance to employees and leaders. This individual will be instrumental in resolving complex issues, related to HR processes and/or services. They will serve as a trusted consultant to internal colleagues and stakeholders and will be key in developing recommendations for continuous improvement. This individual will thrive in a fast-paced environment and be agile to changing employee needs.

This position is located at our Arden Hills Corporate Headquarters (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in office each week)

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Consult and collaborate:

• Partners with Business Advisors to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate HR strategies for maximum impact
• Collaborates with local, regional, and corporate based HR teams to achieve team, location or plant objectives
• Advises and coaches employees and managers in HR functions and on performance
• Proactively collaborates with colleagues across HR on issue root cause analysis, issue resolution and solution delivery
• Partners with People Leaders, COEs and Business Advisors to reach key insight through analysis of employee data supporting talent management activities
• Coaches leaders on performance issues
• Provides training on policies, procedures, and learning and development curriculum

Continuous improvement:

• Proactively analyzes and maintains dashboards and develops recommendations to inform HR service delivery leadership to drive improvement
• Leads strategic recommendations to HR service delivery leadership
• Continually evaluate and explore unique ways of meeting goals based on market changes, employee needs and location challenges

Provides support across the HR function:

• Supports complex, business-oriented Workday transactions including job changes, promotions, and restructures
• Partners closely with subject matter experts on complex issues to find meaningful solutions
• Leads initiatives to foster positive employee relations, an engaged workforce, and a positive culture.
• Coaches leaders on fair and best practices while applying disciplinary actions and improvement plans.
• Partners with leadership to be consistent and fair while applying disciplinary actions and improvement plans.
• Leads efforts around employee complaints through investigations, researching issues, managing Connect Call responses, and partnering with outside experts, as needed.

Required Education Experience, Knowledge

• Undergraduate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field and 3 years+ as an HR Business Partner/Manager or 1+ years working as an HR Business Partner/Manager, possessing a master's degree. In lieu of a degree, candidate must possess 5+ years of HR Generalist/HR Business Partner in experience.
• General knowledge base of Minnesota Labor Laws and ability to partner with Land O'Lakes resources on pending legislation.
• Experience developing, building, and maintaining strong business partnerships.

Your Skillset to Succeed:

• Ability to build authentic personal relationships of trust as a dependable partner.
• Strong communication skills (in both small and large groups) and ability to influence, lead, and drive change in a complex environment.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with HR resource teams to achieve business objectives.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation and facilitation skills. Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Hours: Traditional M-F (with ability to flex schedule when needed for business support)

$81,200-$121,800. In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.