Human Resources Director

Metropolitan Commercial Bank (the “Bank”) is a full-service commercial bank based in New York City. The Bank provides a broad range of business, commercial, and personal banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, private and public middle-market and corporate enterprises and institutions, municipalities, and local government entities. About the role: The Human Resource Director will strategically plan, direct, develop, and manage HR policies, activities, and a team, ensuring legal compliance and implementation of the organization’s mission and talent strategy. While the strategy around the team will be important, ensuring the daily flow and cohesiveness of the team, projects, and timelines will be critical to the success of this role. The successful approach to this role will be ‘hands on.' Reports to Chief Human Resources Officer. Duties/Responsibilities: Collaborating with senior leadership to understand the organization’s goals and strategy related to talent management by developing strategic plans to attract, develop, retain and optimize the organization’s workforce to meet its business objectives. Plans, leads, develops, coordinates, and implements policies, procedures, programs, training initiatives, and surveys to support the organization’s human resource compliance and strategy needs. Administers human resource programs, including but not limited to, performance management, training and development, talent and succession planning, employee engagement, and organizational design and development. Leads and manages internship program curriculum developing the content and overseeing the success of the program. Assists in the recruitment of new staff in the department including interviews, onboarding, and training. In conjunction with the CHRO, identifies staffing and recruiting needs; develops and executes best practices for hiring and talent management. Conducts research and analysis of organizational trends including review of reports and metrics from the organization’s human resource information system (HRIS) or talent management system. Monitors and ensures the organization’s compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews and modifies policies and practices to maintain compliance. Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to upper management. Facilitates professional development, training, and certification activities for HR staff. Assists in delivering training across the company as needed. Influences a culture of disciplined change management practices. Partners and collaborates with other members of the Human Resources team. Performs other duties as required. Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages the daily workflow and scheduling of the team by ensuring all assigned tasks are completed accurately and timely and will take the lead in their absence. Manages employee relations and compliance, performance management process, onboarding, data analytics, training and development initiatives and AAP and EEOC reporting. Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations of their direct reports. Leads with a growth mindset to strive for continuous optimization and improvement. Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (required for this job): Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills. Excellent judgment and critical thinking skills. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong supervisory and leadership skills. Ability to adapt to the needs of the organization and employees. Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate. Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations within the Bank’s multi-state footprint. Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software. Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS and talent management systems. Preferred experience, education, and qualifications: SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. Potential Salary: $200,000 - $220,000 annually Metropolitan Commercial Bank provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Apply for this job

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