Job Description

Description

At General Mills, Human Resources is a strategic business partner, adding value through exceptional HR practices that enable our company to win and our employees to maximize their full potential. We drive winning results for the organization through building competitively superior talent, agile organizations, world class capabilities that unleash performance, and a distinctive and undeniable culture worldwide. We are driven to be the premiere HR organization in the world.

We are seeking a Human Resources Manager for our multi-platform manufacturing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Human Resources Managers at General Mills possess a strong business mindset and exceptional partnership skills--which they rely upon to develop strategies for an innovative, flexible, and dynamic organization. The HR Manager role owns all business partner accountabilities including: career development, performance management, and retention for employees. The HR Manager is responsible for leading the site's positive Employee Relations strategy and ensuring a culture of engaged employees. The HR Manager is a critical member of the site leadership team which drives the strategy and direction for the site. Additionally, our Manufacturing organization is going through a large transformation and the HR Manager will be a critical role to enable this priority through key focus areas like organizational design, employee career progression, recruiting, staffing and capability building.

Our Cedar Rapids, Iowa site makes food people love in the Cereal, Snacks and Baking businesses and is located in eastern Iowa. Cedar Rapids is a critical, strategic site, manufacturing products that represent 11% of all global revenues for General Mills. Cedar Rapids is a newly unionized manufacturing site, still operating under their first collective bargaining agreement from 2019.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

In this role you will provide HR leadership to the site, including:

* Serve as a member of the site leadership team, partnering with cross functional leaders to drive business performance using business acumen, strong HR knowledge, and change management expertise
* Manage the HR department with direct reports such as HR Business Associates, HR Assistants, and Learning & Development
* Lead significant culture change as part of a journey to increase manufacturing performance through process improvement with our manufacturing transformation initiative. This role will be the Organization Pillar Owner for the entire site, responsible building capability in peers on organization activities and leading the overall creation of Organization Master plan strategies
* Develop the capability of our plant operators through employee development, process improvement and work system evolution
* Partner with the Plant Manager to develop a high performing site leadership team and engaging leaders at all levels
* Lead key HR initiatives in support of the organization including positive employee relations, workforce planning, succession planning and staffing
* Lead HR initiatives in partnership with HR COE specialists (i.e. Recruiting, Diversity & Inclusion, Compensation, Change Management)
* Provide individual coaching needs and identify training and development needs for teams
* Create a positive employee relations environment through close engagement and interaction with all employees across the site

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree required
* 5 years of related work experience required
* Experience leading and supporting strategic initiatives, influencing others, and driving results and significant change
* Previous people management experience
* Previous plant/manufacturing experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Masters in Human Resources/Industrial Relations or MBA preferred
* 3-5 years of direct experience as an organizational practitioner of Continuous Improvement methods & processes preferred
* Proven experience working within a global function/matrix highly desired
* Strong data & analytics orientation

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for a U.S. work visa.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best -- bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.