Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner

Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner

POSITION OVERVIEW The Senior Manager, HR Business Partner, serves as a strategic leader in this multi-region, multi-site role. Within Champion Homes, this role will be partnering closely with operations, plant leadership, and corporate HR Leadership to drive workforce effectiveness, talent development, employee relations excellence, and organizational performance.

This role leads and develops a team of Business Partners, ensures consistent application of HR strategy across multiple manufacturing locations, and acts as a key advisor on employee relations, talent strategy, workforce planning, policy, and change initiatives in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.

This role will require the ability to build excellent working relationships with a diverse group of team members. They will need to act as a partner to their local manufacturing teams in all aspects of the position.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Strategic Business Partnership

• Partner with senior operations and functional leaders to align people strategies with manufacturing and business objectives.
• Translate enterprise HR strategy into practical, site-level execution across multiple plants and locations.
• Provide consultation on talent development, employee matters, workforce planning, and people optimization.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on complex people, leadership, and organizational issues.

Employee Relations

• Oversee employee relations strategy across multiple manufacturing regions.
• Serve as escalation point for complex or high-risk investigations, ethics, retaliation, and other legal/people issues.
• Ensure consistent application of policies, corrective action, and termination decisions across locations.
• Partner with Legal and HR leadership on litigation risk, compliance, and regulatory matters.

Talent, Performance & Workforce Planning

• Lead multi-site talent reviews, succession planning, and leadership development efforts.
• Guide performance management practices for frontline, manufacturing, and leadership populations.
• Partner with operations to forecast workforce needs and support hiring or restructuring initiatives.
• Ensure strong onboarding, engagement, and retention strategies for skilled manufacturing and leadership talent.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop HRBP managers and HRBPs supporting multiple sites.
• Build HRBP capability in consulting, judgment, data use, and employee relations decision-making.
• Set clear expectations, escalation standards, and accountability for HRBP delivery.
• Promote consistent HR practices while allowing flexibility for local operational needs

Change Management & Organizational Effectiveness

• Support restructuring, plant expansions or consolidations, acquisitions, and operational changes.
• Manage change impacts across hourly and salaried populations with a focus on communication, engagement, and compliance.
• Identify trends and systemic issues across sites and recommend enterprise or regional solutions.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure alignment with employment laws, safety initiatives, and regulatory requirements across all assigned locations.
• Contribute to HR governance, escalation frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Use data and metrics to monitor ER trends, turnover, engagement, and workforce risks.
• Create analytics and reports using data from various sources and prepare periodic and special reports when needed or requested.

Other duties and project assignments.

Up to 40% travel required.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field (Master's preferred)
• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior HRBP leadership
• 3+ years supporting manufacturing or operations-heavy environments preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-site, hourly workforce populations
• Strong background in employee relations, investigations, and risk management
• Proven people leadership experience managing HRBP teams
• Working knowledge of employment laws

EEO Statement

Champion Home Builders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Champion Home Builders participates in the E-Verify Program.