DISTRICT HR SPECIALIST

The Kroger Co.•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The District HR Specialist drives sourcing, recruiting, selection, and onboarding to support fully staffed stores. The role interviews candidates and makes hiring decisions, partners with stakeholders on succession planning, and ensures the accuracy, maintenance, release, storage, and confidentiality of associate data. The specialist demonstrates the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position supports store leaders and associates on HR processes, policies, investigations, training, employee relations, compliance, and retention. It also maintains HR information and records, processes associate data changes, responds to inquiries, and travels to store locations to provide consultation and support. The specialist must be able to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience in human resources or retail department management.
Knowledge of HR business processes and employment laws.
Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
Ability to build and maintain cooperative business partnerships.
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects and responsibilities effectively.
Excellent presentation, oral, and written communication skills.
Proven knowledge and experience working with external recruiting sites, resume databases, and external recruiting activities.
Ability to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in human resources.
Experience in recruiting or hiring, training and development, coaching, employee relations, and/or HR strategy.
PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification.

Responsibilities

Conduct interviews, make hiring decisions, manage offers, and initiate pre-screening tests and background checks.
Drive sourcing, recruiting, selection, and onboarding for store positions; verify that new associates are properly onboarded and trained.
Assist the division HR department with associate investigations.
Lead and support store leadership in implementing HR processes, procedures, and programs that promote engagement, culture, and retention.
Advise and coach management on associate issues, including leaves of absence, workers’ compensation, PTO, policies, retention, performance, and succession.
Coordinate and deliver associate training programs as appropriate, including new-hire orientation, manager-on-duty training, and department-leader development.
Serve as a subject matter expert on associate data, human resource information systems, policies, and processes.
Respond to and resolve associate inquiries with urgency and a high level of service.
Conduct exit interviews and feedback discussions to identify and track trends that may affect retention.
Support talent acquisition with the creation and maintenance of hiring requisitions and new-hire onboarding, including background checks, drug screens, I-9 forms, and new-hire paperwork.
Assess data submissions for completeness and resolve discrepancies.
Retrieve appropriate documentation and provide it to business partners in response to record requests.
Collect data on current processes and develop improved methods with stakeholder input.
Comply with federal, state, and local labor laws, including minor labor laws, and support compliance with food and alcoholic beverage laws and regulations.
Accurately and promptly process data entries for wages and salaries, terminations, status and position changes, new hires and rehires, transfers, time accrual maintenance, associate personal information updates, and other HR activities.
Travel to store locations to drive HR initiatives and provide consultation and support to management and onsite staff.