Human Resources Business Partner

AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing•Detroit, MI
•Onsite

About The Position

Dauch is seeking a Human Resources Business Partner to support the Forgings Human Resources team at its World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. This is an onsite role supporting assigned functional groups and plants with employee relations, coaching, workforce planning, and other core HR activities. The HR Business Partner works with functional leaders to align people strategies with business goals and strategic initiatives, and supports HR processes and organizational change across different locations. The role also helps maintain HR systems and compliance, supports onboarding and offboarding, advances standardization and policy implementation, and analyzes HR data to promote continuous improvement. The position requires a customer-centric approach, discretion with confidential information, and willingness to travel when needed.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in an HR-related capacity working in a global, medium-to-large organization.
  • Experience as an HR partner and/or in talent acquisition, compensation, organizational development, or employee relations activities.
  • Knowledge of HR principles and procedures for compensation and benefits, employee relations, and personnel information systems.
  • Experience supporting plants from a regional, Business Unit, or corporate capacity.
  • Customer-centric approach to supporting associates, leaders, and others in meeting business needs.
  • Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.
  • Willingness and ability to travel when needed.

Nice To Haves

  • Master's degree.
  • Experience as an HR Business Partner.
  • Experience with Workday or another cloud-based HRIS platform.

Responsibilities

  • Provide HR expertise in employee relations, coaching, and workforce planning for assigned functional groups and plants.
  • Partner with functional leaders to understand business goals and strategic initiatives that affect people strategies, and execute supporting plans.
  • Support and facilitate core HR processes between Centers of Excellence, including Talent Management, Compensation, and Benefits, and different locations.
  • Facilitate onboarding and offboarding activities.
  • Coach people leaders, associates, and the plant HR community.
  • Assist with HR compliance activities and maintain Human Resources Information Systems.
  • Support organizational change activities.
  • Complete special Human Resources projects and other duties as assigned.
  • Maintain confidence and keep information confidential.
  • Help ensure adherence to legal requirements.
  • Drive standardization, policy implementation, and compliance across different locations.
  • Pull and analyze data to drive continuous improvement in HR-related metrics.
  • Contribute to HR and organizational success by responding to related, different, and new requests and helping others accomplish job results.
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