People & Culture Business Partner, Retail Central

Reporting to the Director People & Culture Retail the People & Culture Business Partner Retail Central will provide thought partnership to our Vuori stores teams in the areas of talent management organizational design and effectiveness employee engagement and ensuring our Vuori culture is thriving. You will contribute to building all aspects of the employee lifecycle. You will partner with store leadership to execute strategies in areas like coaching/development organizational design succession planning talent assessment and development compensation and employee relations. 

This position carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: employee relations training performance management policy implementation employment law compliance and the creation execution and tracking of People metrics to support business decisions. 

What youll get to do: 

• Contribute to the creation of store-related initiatives that are aligned to our overall People & Culture strategy. 
• Be a thought partner to store leadership and team members and demonstrate success in assessing organizational health of store work environments employee relations coaching performance management career development retention and rewards programs. 
• Determine ways to continue to leverage our strengths and identify opportunities either across the fleet within a district or at a store level while finding the right balance between speed and process/compliance. Recommend creative solutions. 
• Manage routine to complex employee relations issues. Conducts effective thorough and objective investigations and partners with ER team and leadership to recommend appropriate action to resolve the issues in a timely manner. 
• Partner with the Recruiting Team to identify strengths and opportunities in our hiring process assessment of talent and ways to improve stores capabilities in identifying and hiring top talent. 
• Identify ways to create data that will be most impactful to our stores and influence business leaders with data-driven recommendations. 
• Develop change management plans and manage stakeholders before and after changes take place. 
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills including high-quality document preparation and presentation skills. 
• Be able to work independently and exercise excellent judgment as well as be an active member of both the store leadership and our People and Culture team. 
• Contribute to creating and implementing standards for recording employee relations issues and investigations maintaining and updating People and Culture related policies and procedures in our Employee Handbook and Stores communication channels. 
• Partner with the Director of People & Culture Retail on developing and implementing engagement tools to increase morale. 
• Partner with the Benefits to team to review accommodations and workers compensation programs and policies for stores in accordance with the applicable federal and state employment laws and under the general direction and guidance of the Director of People & Culture Retail and the legal department. 
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance; partner with legal department as needed/required. 
• Collaborate with other areas of the People & Culture Team on the implementation and rollout of plans programs and policies. 
• Research analyze and respond to employee/manager questions and/or issues regarding People & Culture policies and processes. 
• Help identify training needs for the business partner in implementation and participate in evaluation and monitoring of success. 
• Complete other projects as assigned by the People and Culture leadership. 

Qualifications :

Who you are: 

• Bachelors degree preferably in HR or Business or equivalent years of experience preferred.  
• 5 years of relevant HR generalist/business partner experience in dynamic fast-paced organizations. 
• Extensive experience in employee relations performance management and federal and state employment laws (i.e.: EEO FLSA ADA FMLA HIPPA OSHA etc.). 
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations with tact and diplomacy. 
• Well organized plans effectively and prioritizes time according to what is most impactful. 
• Dependable and can be relied upon to meet deadlines and commitments. 
• Strong consulting and communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate. 
• Strong interviewing/fact finding and decision-making skills. 
• Strong conflict management skills with demonstrated understanding of interpersonal relationship building. 
• Proven success at developing strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results. 
• PHR/SPHR certification preferred. 
• Demonstrated competence in other human resource disciplines including compensation change management talent management organizational diagnosis and planning and diversity equity and inclusion. 
• Relevant Retail experience required. 

Additional Information :

Our investment in you:

At Vuori were proud to offer the following to our employees: 

• Health Insurance 
• Savings and Retirement Plan  
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks 
• Paid Time Off  
• Wellness & Fitness benefits  

*This role can be based in Chicago Dallas or Denver. 

The salary range for this role is $93400 per year - $120000 per year.

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time