Vice President - Human Resources

AM General • South Bend, IN

4d • Onsite

About The Position

AM General develops specialized ground vehicle systems for the U.S. Armed Services and allied customers. The Vice President of Human Resources establishes and drives an enterprise HR strategy aligned with corporate objectives, operational priorities, and long-term workforce needs. As a senior advisor to the executive team, this leader oversees organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, succession strategy, and culture across a complex, multi-site operating environment.

The role leads HR transformation and modernization, labor relations, talent acquisition and development, employee engagement, compensation and benefits governance, HR systems, workforce analytics, and HR operational effectiveness. It provides executive oversight of compliance, ethics, investigations, and risk mitigation, while partnering across functions to support safety, operational integrity, and continuous improvement. The position operates in an office environment and may require minimal travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience, with significant responsibility supporting multi-site, unionized manufacturing or distribution operations.
• Prior labor-relations experience in a UAW-represented workforce.
• Demonstrated success leading labor-relations strategy, negotiating contracts, and managing union partnerships at scale.
• Ability to influence executive leadership and drive enterprise-wide initiatives in complex operating environments.
• Strong financial acumen and analytical capability, including experience using workforce data to shape strategic decisions.
• Executive presence, strong communication skills, and ability to lead through change.
• Ability to develop high-performing HR leaders and teams.
• Enterprise-level strategic thinking, executive communication and influence, transformational leadership, organizational agility, and sound decision-making.
• Integrity, judgment, and confidentiality.
• Ability to build alignment across complex operational networks.
• Ability to regularly read computer screens, reports, and documents with detail and clarity; use close, distance, and color vision, peripheral vision, and adjust focus.
• Ability to regularly hear well enough to communicate.
• Ability to maintain concentration and focus in a fast-paced environment while performing repeated or similar tasks.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in HR, Business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive an enterprise HR strategy aligned with corporate objectives, operational priorities, and long-term workforce needs.
• Advise the executive team on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, succession strategy, and culture.
• Lead HR transformation initiatives involving modernization, automation, standardization, process improvement, analytics, and solutions that improve efficiency and employee experience.
• Ensure HR modernization and standardization initiatives align with regulatory requirements, ethical standards, and data-governance frameworks.
• Provide executive leadership for labor relations, collective bargaining, union partnerships, negotiation strategies, contract administration, grievances, and arbitration.
• Ensure consistent and compliant application of collective bargaining agreements across unionized locations.
• Develop leaders’ capabilities to manage union relationships and mitigate labor risk.
• Oversee enterprise talent acquisition for skilled, technical, and leadership roles.
• Lead succession planning, leadership development, and capability-building programs for a high-performance, multi-site operational workforce.
• Strengthen frontline leadership capability and embed a disciplined performance-management culture.
• Lead enterprise engagement strategy focused on safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Align workforce communications, inclusion initiatives, and employee experience programs with corporate values and operational realities.
• Strengthen organizational health through climate assessments and change-management leadership.
• Support enterprise ethics initiatives and reinforce transparent practices, ethical behavior, and accountability in HR and labor-related decisions.
• Oversee compensation and benefits governance to support competitiveness, equity, and alignment with business and labor requirements.
• Provide leadership for HR systems, workforce analytics, and HR operational effectiveness.
• Use analytics, dashboards, and HR metrics to support executive and operational decision-making and reporting.
• Ensure enterprise compliance with labor laws, regulatory requirements, OSHA standards, and internal policies.
• Partner with operational leadership to advance a world-class safety culture.
• Oversee compliance governance, including audits, policy controls, complex investigations, data privacy, enterprise risk mitigation, and adaptation to evolving labor and employment regulations.
• Lead or support enterprise ethics and compliance programs, including training, reporting mechanisms, and investigations.
• Partner with Legal, IT, Operations, and Finance to implement technology and compliance controls that support operational integrity and modernization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive