HR Manager

Location: Onsite, four days per week – Kohler, WI

Opportunity

Strategic HR business partner will support US Engineering teams to accelerate business growth through high-impact talent and culture strategies. This role drives end-to-end talent outcomes—from hiring and development to engagement and performance—while shaping a high-performing, agile organization. Additionally, the role will elevate impact through contributions across North America and Global Product Innovation organization.

Specific Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to develop, execute, and drive human resources strategies to ensure strategic workforce plans align with organizational capabilities.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships of trust to foster transparency, open and honest two-way communication, and collaboration.
• Advances talent and culture initiatives through consultation and relationship building, while ensuring alignment to enterprise strategies. Leverages Talent Center of Expertise resources and partnership to embed key initiatives.
• Plans, creates and coaches to support organizational change management and communications.
• Develop robust talent management plans to identify competency, knowledge and talent gaps and develop specific programs to fill the identified gaps.
• Oversees recruitment pipeline positioning Kohler as an employer of choice to attract top talent into seasoned positions and early careers programs.
• Supports, develops, engages, and retains talent by creating, implementing, and maintaining talent management solutions (engagement, succession planning, learning and development, assessment, planning, etc.).
• Keeps informed of local market and competitive trends and leverages these insights to develop appropriate site-based HR strategies and solutions.
• Creates an experience-based talent culture across the organization in aspects of talent attraction, development, improving organizational health and driving high performance culture.
• Drives inclusion strategies to foster a sense of belonging and aids the organization in being better every day.
• Collaborates with leaders to ensure functional communication and associate engagement plans are making a meaningful difference.
• Leverage data to understand and proactively handle issues such as turnover, organizational spans of control and layers, and similar key indicators.
• Champions key talent & culture initiatives across Global Product Innovation.