HR Business Partner

Overview

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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.

Note:

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.

• 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.
• Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the HR team to develop solutions, programs, and policies.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to management (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).
• Oversee 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.
• Recommend 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.
• Collaborate with managers to investigate associate relations and disciplinary actions. Partner with the VP of HR to determine appropriate course of action.
• Partner with Sonepar HR Operations Team on payroll, time, and benefit issues.
• Conduct 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.
• Assist with the development and implementation of inclusion initiatives within assigned regions.
• Assist 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 related field.
• 4-5 plus years of broad-based HR experience, and knowledge of Human Resource Information System (HRIS) applications.
• Solid understanding of employment laws, payroll & payroll tax laws, personnel record keeping principles and practices, and related local, state and federal regulations coupled with the ability to appropriately translate this understanding into action.
• Commitment to and demonstration of high ethical standards governing professional behavior and interactions, including the ability to maintain information in a confidential manner.
• Strong analytical and mathematical aptitude.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely in written and verbal formats.
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills, including an ability to plan and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Proved attentiveness to detail coupled with problem analysis and resolution skills.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with all organizational members.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex human resource documents.
• Ability to respond effectively to highly sensitive inquiries or complaints in a team environment.

• SHRM CP certification.
• Experience providing HR consultation and partnership to business leaders at all levels of the…