Verdantas
Area HR Leader
Remote - USA
Sponsorship not specified$125k-$150kDetected 4 days ago
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About the role
- Facilitate talent review discussions, succession planning efforts, promotion planning, and leadership development initiatives to strengthen organizational capability and leadership pipelines.
- Identify training and development needs and coordinate programs that enhance employee capabilities, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance.
- Analyze workforce trends, organizational metrics, employee engagement results, turnover data, and HR analytics to inform business decisions and improve HR programs and processes.
Responsibilities
- This individual works closely with acquired and existing teams to support successful transitions, employee engagement, retention, and long-term business success.
- Develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives that support workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, employee engagement, talent retention, organizational effectiveness, and business growth.
- Partner with Area Leaders and business leadership teams to identify current and future talent needs, build workforce plans, address talent gaps, and support long-term business growth.
- Evaluate organizational structures and recommend improvements to reporting relationships, team design, span of control, workforce deployment, and role alignment to improve operational effectiveness, accountability, and employee development.
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations matters and conduct effective, thorough, and objective workplace investigations while ensuring compliance, consistency, and fairness across the organization.
- Support recruitment efforts by partnering with Talent Acquisition and business leaders
- Support and guide managers in performance management processes, including goal setting, coaching, performance feedback, development planning, corrective action, and succession planning.
- Partner with Compensation and business leadership to support equitable and competitive pay practices, compensation planning, promotion recommendations, and employee retention strategies.
- Verdantas strives to develop new ways to increase diversity awareness within our organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field
- 10+ years of progressive Human Resources experience supporting operational and business leaders in a multi-state environment
- Demonstrated expertise in employee relations, workplace investigations, leadership coaching, performance management, talent development, and conflict resolution.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations while maintaining current knowledge of legal requirements and reporting obligations affecting HR functions.
- equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Must have strong working knowledge of California employment law, wage and hour regulations, prevailing wage requirements, leave laws, and related compliance obligations is required.
- Strong knowledge of organizational structures, organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, talent management, and change management practices.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed employee populations and multiple office locations.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or organizational restructuring initiatives preferred.
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders and influence decisions through strategic HR partnership.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, consulting, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities while operating effectively in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
- Travel Requirements
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to support leadership teams, employee populations, acquisitions and integration activities, training programs, investigations, employee engagement initiatives, and other business and HR priorities across assigned regions.
Nice to have
- Welcome to Verdantas, where innovation meets sustainability, and your career finds purpose!
- Our work spans high-growth sectors like water resources, resilient land use, energy transformation, and civil infrastructure.
- We don't just solve problems
- we help shape a more sustainable future.
- Join a people-first culture that values your well-being, empowers your growth, and amplifies your impact.
- Ready to shape the future of resilient communities?
- Position Summary
- They will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on organizational structure, talent strategy, complex employee relations, performance management, compensation, change management, and workforce challenges.
Compensation
- $125,000-$150,000
Benefits
- Flexible Work Environment
- Paid Parental Leave
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off + Holidays
Equal opportunity
- For us, it is imperative to build balanced teams from all walks of life and we believe that a diverse workforce is a stronger workforce.
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