Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Location

The role is based in Blair, Nebraska or Milwaukee, Wisconsin tied to a Cargill location.

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Manager, HR Business Partner, Plants - Cargill Food and Bio (CFB) will collaborate with plant leaders to develop and execute the people and culture strategy, focused on efforts related to workforce planning and talent management, team and organization effectiveness and operational delivery of core people processes. In this role, you will lead a team of professionals in North America to advance organizational goals and key strategic initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and implement operational people and culture strategies that support business and plants strategies and objectives and influence and provide support to key operational and strategic decisions.

• Provide strategic partnership and practical solutions to improve performance and engagement, increase efficiency, understand talent needs and mitigate people risks for the plant.

• Lead people and culture processes and initiatives, such as workforce and talent planning, retention, performance management, team development, engagement action planning and team and environment health.

• Drive strategic focus and action toward diversity, equity and inclusion strategy and goals.

• Leverage highly complex reports and dashboards to measure and analyze human resources and business performance metrics at plant locations, provide strategic trend analysis and recommend solutions based on insights.

• Lead the execution of core people processes throughout the year at the plants with communications and coaching to leaders and monitor employee inquiry volume and employee relations case trends to develop actions with the leadership.

• Lead the teams supporting the plants to drive the strategic people and culture agenda at our production sites and facilities to deliver operational performance.

• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of six years of related HR work experience

• Five years of supervisory experience

• Ability to travel up to 30%

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification in human resources

• Demonstrated ability to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and build a culture of inclusivity and belonging.

• Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines including change management, organizational development and capability building, employee and union relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, performance management, training, and employee development.

• Solid understanding of change management, and proven ability to initiate change management initiatives and lead clients/teams through significant change.

• Ability to build strong business relationships and demonstrate influence in a complex matrix environment

• Strong business acumen

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.