HR Business Partner

Now Optics, a leader in the eye care industry and operator of Stanton Optical retail centers, is seeking an HR Business Partner. The role provides strategic and tactical HR support to regional store leadership, including talent management, organizational development, performance management, employee relations, compliance, coaching, training, and workforce planning.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a regional team of HR Specialists and Recruiters to provide strategic, targeted support to stores' leadership
• Design and deliver targeted solutions with a high degree of focus on scale and growth, including strategic planning, visioning, talent assessment, change management and team building
• Provide strategic business partnership, thought partnership, and coaching to all levels of the organization
• Proactively assess team, manager, organizational development needs, make recommendations, and implement appropriate solutions
• Provide rigorous data analysis and reporting solutions based on business needs
• Drive talent management strategies to support a team’s growth and individual development plans
• Manage and facilitate the overall performance management cycle for the Region and employee engagement assessment throughout the year
• Manage employee relations issues and make recommendations to resolve concerns and/or improve morale
• Monitor, audit, and investigate employee-related matters and regulations including, but not limited to sexual harassment, discrimination, ADA, FMLA, Wage and Hour, EEOC, DOL
• Provide advice and counsel to managers and supervisors regarding practices policies, policy and employment law
• Provide individual coaching to colleagues at all organizational levels related to performance, misconduct and policy violations
• Partner with Legal and Operations to develop and revise policies, practices, and procedures
• Identify need for and lead training in alignment with business priorities
• Maintain the highest level of confidentiality and sensitivity to all HR related matters and information
• Partner with leaders on developing workforce and succession plans
• Develop and deliver reporting and actionable insights to all levels of the organization

Requirements:

• 5-10 years experience in an HR Business Partner or equivalent role
• Working knowledge of US local, state, and federal labor/EEO laws
• The ability to work in a busy environment with constant interactions with people of a variety of different ages, personalities, cultures, and educational backgrounds
• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business
• Consulting, coaching and facilitation skills
• Effective communication and critical thinking skills
• Demonstrates empathy and experience driving an “others first” orientation among employee population
• Experience using data to identify insights that drive action
• Demonstrated experience in influencing and strategically solving problems
• Strong personal ethic where “doing the right thing” is reflexive and ego takes a back seat in decision-making
• BA/BS degree
• Bi-lingual Spanish
• Professional Human Resources (PHR) or Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) certification