Talence Group LLC Looking for Human Resources (HR) Manager at Portland, Oregon Full Time

Our client is a dynamic organization with over 700 employees in Portland, Oregon. This company builds shared prosperity through travel, trade, and economic development. Their goal is to drive countless initiatives to improve the local economy and quality of life. This organization is recognized for their excellence in collaborative, values-driven, and trailblazing workforce who are steadfastly committed to their communities, environment, and social equity.

what they need…

Our client needs an expert in compensation who can build a compensation and total rewards philosophy that drives and motivates employees to be creative and perform at their best level. In addition to providing the strategic direction for compensation, you will lead the People Analytics and HR systems teams. In this critical role, you will build human capital knowledge to strengthen the culture and organizational performance while directly impacting team diversity and equality.

what you will do…

Collaborate & Lead:

• Lead, develop, and execute modern methodologies with a strategic roadmap and KPIs for Compensation, People Analytics, and HR systems
• Manage, coach, and inspire a high-performing, diverse team of HR professionals to achieve goals and provide influential business partnerships to the organization
• In collaboration with your HR peers, ensure an inclusive, diverse, and integrated team to achieve the overall HR strategy
• Partner with HR colleagues and business leaders to develop effective employee development and assessment solutions driving employee engagement, performance, and growth, continuously measuring program effectiveness
• Build company-wide communication strategies for the deployment of new or changed programs, systems, procedures, or methodologies

Compensation:

• Partner and influence HR and business leadership to develop compensation programs that are motivational, competitive, cost-effective, retain and attract top talent, legally compliant, and are aligned with the company philosophy and principles
• Oversee and provide direction on individual and organization-wide pay equity market reviews and analysis, performance, and other comparable character factors in compliance with the pay equity law
• Direct the design, implementation, and administration of compensation policies and programs, including base salary, incentive compensation, and employee recognition programs

People Analytics:

• Develop a strategic roadmap for people analytics to significantly enhance organizational dashboards with reporting, analytics, and metrics that drive effective, data-driven, and strategic, operational decisions improving business performance
• Ensure the right tools and technology are leveraged to provide accessible, timely, and accurate dashboards on compliance, talent acquisition, attrition, diversity, and HR operational metrics
• Lead data-driven insight projects for HR initiatives such as employee engagement, development, performance, retention, talent management, and talent acquisition

HR Systems:

• Provide leadership and guidance for human resource information systems to ensure full optimization, utilization, quality of user interface, data integrity, and accurate reporting from the system
• Manage and develop strong internal controls, legal and regulatory compliance, workforce policies, procedures, and practices and educate HR staff on all related content

what you need to have…

• 5+ years in a Compensation and business partner management role driving modern and effective compensation and/or total rewards programs
• Strong experience with people & data analytics, HRIS systems, and developing KPI’s and high-quality HR dashboards to inform the business leaders
• Effective, positive, and diversity-focused people management and leadership skills with experience building high-performing and engaged teams
• Deep knowledge of pay practices, pay equity, legal and regulatory compliance, employment laws, and policies
• Expertise in compensation benchmarking and variable pay program development and administration
• Experience building and delivering people analytics using data collection, analysis, reporting, visualizations, and presentations
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Business Management, or a related field; Master’s degree a plus
• CCP, PHR, or SPHR preferred

• Hybrid in the office 2 days a week, (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday)
• Medical/Dental/Vision/FSA
• Supplemental Life Insurance/Disability Insurance
• Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)