Senior Manager, Global HR Compliance

Job Description

The Global Employee Relations & HR Compliance Team supports Western Digital ensuring consistency and reducing compliance risks in our employment practices and policies worldwide. This team partners closely with the regional people solutions representatives, HR Centers of Excellence, Ethics and Compliance and Employment Law to review and advise on matters of policy, country compliance and investigations.

We are looking for a highly collaborative, strategic problem solver with deep compliance experience and technical expertise. This is a great opportunity for a builder who is looking to set up an HR Compliance function to scale in a rapidly evolving business.

As the Senior Manager of Global HR Compliance, you will build our new HR Compliance function from the ground up, identifying compliance and policy opportunities, organizing cross-functional teams around compliance related projects and initiatives and defining our HR compliance roadmap. The Senior Manager will help build a forward-thinking team that proactively identifies and acts in areas of opportunity. You will work cross-functionally to bring deep subject matter expertise to people processes, programs and policies.

This position reports to the Global Sr. Director for Employee Relations & HR Compliance

• Conduct a gap analysis to identify policy and compliance risks
• Develop, write and implement some HR policies and partner cross-functionally with COEs and other policy owners to ensure compliance with federal and local laws
• Partner with Legal and COEs as needed to ensure policy alignment with local laws
• Develop policy governance model and ensure all policy related documents are up to date and centrally located
• Drive HR compliance related initiatives including but not limited to OFCCP, GSR, Time & Attendance, Gender Pay Gap Reporting, all US and country specific compliance reporting, compliance training requirements, etc.
• Manager HR Compliance focused training and development
• Support country HR teams in project managing local audits, etc.
• Stay current with the evolving compliance landscape globally
• Build a high performing team while ensuring operational excellence

• 10+ years of experience in Human Resources
• 7+ years of experience in an HR Compliance focused role
• 5+ years of leadership experience

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to earn trust, dive deep and work successfully on a broad spectrum of employee and labor relations issues and business challenges.
• Strong knowledge of RBA and internal audit processes.
• Strong project manager, capable of independently owning large-scale, network-wide projects
• Demonstrates an inclusive leadership style and a commitment to equality
• Experience working in a global company leading cross-functional regional and global projects of significant scope, complexity, and of a highly sensitive nature.
• Demonstrated success leading programs and driving process improvements
• The ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to drive continuous improvement
• Robust understanding of key HR concepts and practices (employment law, compliance, engagement, retention, and performance)
• With international activities, conference calls in the early morning or late evenings are a normal course of business. Flexibility on both your part and the company’s is expected.
• Knowledge of China and other APAC countries’ compliance and legislative landscape is a plus

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital…