North American HR Director Job at H-E Parts International in Evansville

As the HR Director for North America, you will lead the regional HR strategy, ensuring alignment with global priorities while driving initiatives that foster a high-performance culture. This pivotal role is responsible for overseeing all HR functions across the region, from talent acquisition and leadership development to employee engagement and compliance. You will be a trusted partner to the business, enabling our leaders and teams to achieve organizational success through innovative and impactful HR practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the North America HR strategy, aligning with global priorities to drive organizational goals. Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team on all HR-related matters.
• Talent Management: Lead end-to-end talent processes, including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and career development programs to attract, retain, and grow top talent.
• Employee Engagement: Champion a culture of engagement by designing and implementing initiatives that enhance employee experience, foster inclusion, and align with company values.
• Leadership Development: Design and deliver leadership development programs that empower managers to lead with impact, accountability, and integrity.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local labor laws, as well as internal policies. Proactively manage HR risks and maintain ethical standards across the organization.
• HR Operations: Oversee compensation, benefits, performance management, and employee relations to ensure efficient and effective operations across the region.
• Change Management: Drive organizational transformation and change initiatives, supporting teams to adapt and thrive in a dynamic business environment.

Your Profile

• Experience: at least 10–15 years of progressive HR leadership experience, with proven expertise in managing HR functions at a regional or global level. Experience in the USA is necessary, and in Canada is relevant plus.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field. An advanced degree or HR certification (e.g., SPHR, SHRM-SCP) is highly desirable.
• Industry experience: proven experience in manufacturing, engineering, construction or mining industry is strongly preferred.

Key Competencies:

• Excellence: A concern for working well or for surpassing a standard of excellence
• Analytical Thinking: Understanding a situation, issue, problem, etc. by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
• Customer Service: Focusing one’s efforts on discovering and meeting the customer’s or client’s needs.
• Teamwork: Implies the intention to work cooperatively with others, to be part of a team, to work together, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
• Self-awareness: Reading one’s own emotions and recognizing their impact on one’s performance; gut sense.
• Exceptional problem-solver—ability to define a problem and analyze it before coming to conclusions.
• Possess a strong desire to innovate; able to think creatively; generate out-of-the-box ideas to circumvent barriers to growth and streamline processes.
• Ability to operate in a face-paced environment with competing priorities across multiple time zones.
• Extraordinary comfort with HR data and systems.

If you are an energetic, forward-thinking HR leader ready to take on a key regional role in a growing organization, we would love to hear from you.