Human Resources Manager - Chanhassen, MN Plant

Human Resources Manager - Chanhassen Plant

OVERVIEW:

At General Mills, Human Resources is a strategic business partner, adding value through exceptional HR practices that enable our company to win and our employees to maximize their full potential. We drive winning results for the organization through building competitively superior talent, agile organizations, world class capabilities that unleash performance, and a distinctive and undeniable culture worldwide. We are driven to be the premiere HR organization in the world.

We are seeking a Human Resources Manager for our multi-platform manufacturing facility in Chanhassen, MN. Human Resources Managers at General Mills possess a strong business mindset and exceptional partnership skills-which they rely upon to develop strategies for an innovative, flexible, and dynamic organization. The HR Manager role owns all business partner accountabilities including: career development, performance management, and retention for employees. The HR Manager is responsible for leading the site's positive Employee Relations strategy and ensuring a culture of engaged employees. Additionally, the HR Manager will be a critical role to enable this priority through key focus areas like organizational design, employee career progression, recruiting, staffing and capability building.

Our Chanhassen site is a key part of the North America Foodservice Supply Chain which manufacturers frozen baked goods used by a variety of NAF customers. Chanhassen also has a natural and organic refrigerated baked goods line.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

In this role you will provide HR leadership to the site, including:

• Serve as a member of the site leadership team, partnering with cross functional leaders to drive business performance using business acumen, strong HR knowledge, and change management expertise
• Lead differentiated efforts to build a strong recruiting pipeline with increased retention
• Manage the HR department with direct reports such as HR Business Associate, HR Assistant
• Lead significant culture change as part of a journey to increase manufacturing performance through process improvement. This role will be the Organization Pillar Owner for the entire site, responsible for training peers and other team members on organization activities and leading the overall Organization Master Plan strategies.
• Develop the capability of our plant operators through employee development, process improvement and work system evolution
• Partner with the Plant Manager to develop a high performing site leadership team and engaging leaders at all levels.
• Lead key HR initiatives in support of the organization including positive employee relations, workforce planning, succession planning and staffing.
• Lead HR initiatives in partnership with HR COE specialists (i.e. Recruiting, Diversity & Inclusion, Compensation, Change Management)
• Provide individual coaching needs and identify training and development needs for teams
• Create a positive employee relations environment through close engagement and interaction with all employees across the site

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3 years relevant experience
• Experience leading and supporting strategic initiatives, influencing others, and driving results and significant change
• Previous plant/manufacturing experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Masters in Human Resources/Industrial Relations or MBA preferred
• 3-5 years of direct experience as an organizational practitioner of Continuous Improvement methods & processes preferred
• Proven experience working within a global function/matrix highly desired
• Strong data & analytics orientation
• Previous people management experience

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS:

• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for the work visas.

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.