Human Resources Manager

Location

Weston

Full-Time

Festival Foods is a Wisconsin family- and employee-owned grocer that is committed to giving back to the communities it serves and providing guests with exceptional service and value. We operate +40 full-service supermarkets across the state of Wisconsin.

At Festival, people are at the top of our list. You’ll see it in everything from our daily interactions to how we treat our guests – even in our extensive associate benefits and programs.

Job Title: HR Manager

FLSA Status: Salary

Reports To: Store Director

This position is responsible for delivering all aspects of the HR function to an assigned store location. The position is a key leader within the store that focuses on all associate related matters to ensure a productive, engaging, compliant, and best-in-class workforce. The HR Manager will think strategically, use data to guide decisions, professionally and appropriately challenge and influence others while cultivating talent within the store.

The HR Manager position builds strong relationships with the in-store leadership team as well as all associates in the store. You will also work in close partnership with the Support Office to develop strategies on all core functions of the position including recruitment, associate development, benefits, compensation, and employee relations.

• Responsible for the full-cycle recruitment efforts of the store. This includes creation of job postings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, extending offers, and performing new hire orientation.
• Responsible for creating a talent pipeline by regularly searching for “A” level talent for future needs of the store.
• Partners with leaders on employee relations and performance management situations and consults with the Support Office Employee Relations team on escalated workplace issues and investigations.
• Builds relationships with associates and fosters a sense of belonging through active inclusion of individual talents, perspectives, experiences, and capabilities.
• Works side by side with the leadership team to build relationships, drive engagement, drive loyalty and retention, and develop a best in class work environment.
• Coaches leaders to lead their teams, navigate difficult situations, and resolve employee relations issues.
• Leads weekly payroll processing including daily timecard edits, creating new associate profiles and ensuring time cards are accurate on a weekly basis before the close of payroll. Additionally, this position is responsible for maintaining compliant payroll records on-site.
• Promotes awareness of associate’s rights and actively manages leave management options for eligible store associates by partnering with third party vendors on FMLA, STD, ADA, and Worker's Compensation administration.
• Performs accommodation reviews by engaging associates and leadership to ensure business needs are met.
• Responsible for rolling out programs and providing training to support our associates and leadership team.
• Leverages associate data such as turnover, exit interviews, and HR Scorecard metrics to guide decision-making and offer solutions to improve results.
• Serves as a direct resource to associates on benefits including medical, dental, ancillary benefits, 401(k) and paid time off.
• Facilitates company recognition programs and ensures leaders are executing program standards.
• All other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Relationships:

• Directly reports to the Store Director
• Indirect reporting relationship with Sr. Director of Human Resources and Assistant Director of Human Resources

Organization Relationships:

• Daily contact with all levels of store management to provide coaching, discuss recruitment needs, provide HR policy interpretation and guidance.
• Frequent contact with HR colleagues to share best practices and expertise.
• Regular contact with the area HR Market lead to seek support and guidance on all in store activities including employee relations and procedural questions.
• Frequent contact with the HR team at the Support Office to gain information, work on joint projects, and seek advice and counsel based on…