HR Business Partner

Your career grows here. At Echo Electric, a brand owned by Sonepar, we are a leader in electrical distribution. Echo Electric represents over $1.2 billion in sales covering Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Southern South Dakota. As part of Sonepar, the worldwide leader in electrical distribution, we have a global reach that allows us to offer excellent benefits and develop innovative solutions, while maintaining our strong local roots and close-knit culture.

We empower our associates to contribute to our success by adopting the adapt, dare, learn mindset— adapt to new situations and people, dare to appropriately challenge the status quo, and learn from others and our own experiences. Our 5 legacy brands known as Holt, PEPCO, Richards, and Springfield Electric have become one brand moving forward with a shared culture, strategy, and vision.

We are now going to the market under one bold new brand, Echo Electric.

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) is responsible for working with their assigned business units to understand the business strategy and to identify opportunities to increase talent management, organizational effectiveness and productivity. The HRBP is responsible for developing and executing human capital strategies and activities that enable growth, innovation and overall organization effectiveness. Additionally, the HRBP drives corporate led initiatives with the team and communicates how these programs fit in with the overall business and HR strategy and assures the organization’s compliance with all human resource legal and regulatory requirements.

• Communicate across all levels, collaborate across boundaries and geographies while working with colleagues across the business and the HR team.
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity in all situations deemed necessary.
• Analyzes trends and metrics in partnership with the HR team to develop solutions, programs, and policies.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Provides day-to-day performance management guidance to management (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).
• Oversees talent acquisition process for assigned business units, ensuring management understanding of process.
• Assist with Onboarding and Orientation of new hires.
• Partner with Training and Development to conduct and/or facilitate training on HR-related topics such as performance management, leadership, interviewing, HR policies, etc.
• Maintain awareness of culture, plans, financial position, within the assigned business units.
• Recommends solutions to ensure a positive and supportive work environment that promotes high levels of productivity, integrity, and mutual respect. Anticipates challenges and proactively seeks improvements impacting management, increasing productivity, efficiencies, and retention.
• Collaborates with managers to investigate associate relations and disciplinary actions. Partners with the VP of HR to determine appropriate course of action.
• Partner with Sonepar HR Operations Team on payroll, time, and benefit issues.
• Conducts separation notices, exit interviews, turnover reports and manages communication of feedback to the appropriate managers.
• Assist with the annual performance review process by training managers on guidelines, making sure that reviews are conducted timely, and coaching leadership on the process via Success Factors/Sonepeople HCM system.
• Conduct talent reviews and succession planning for assigned business units.
• Assists with the development and implementation of inclusion initiatives within assigned regions.
• Assists with annual open enrollment; ensures all material is completed. Keeps associates informed of benefit options, programs, and critical information.
• Oversee Engagement Survey and action items for assigned Regions.
• Recommend engagement and retention activities based on location results.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Travel as needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, Industrial Relations, or…