Published: Jul 23, 2025 - The Human Resources (HR) Lead oversees a team of Process/Business Analysts and drives end-to-end global HR process improvements using data analytics and system automation. This role involves partnering closely with HR Systems and IT teams to design, test, and implement enhancements that elevate employee lifecycle operations and user-facing content. The lead also leads change management, establishes governance frameworks, and steers strategic HR projects aligned with the future operating model.

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1. HR Lead, GreenWave Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Providing strategic HR guidance and leadership at a country level
- Providing support and guidance to local and overseas managers on country-specific HR matters
- Managing employee relations activities, ensuring AT&T’s compliance with employment legislation
- Acting as the country HR SME, leading various Business Unit-driven HR initiatives, projects and M&A activity
- Working in partnership with the HR Business Partners to ensure the professional management and implementation of organisational change/restructuring programs
- Driving consistency at the country level
- Contacting suppliers and partners
- Leading country-specific employee communications
- Participating as a member of the APAC HR Country Management team, including input and involvement in wider International HR specific projects
- Raising awareness of HR country-specific issues
Skills on Resume:
- HR Leadership (Soft Skills)
- HR Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Employee Relations (Soft Skills)
- M&A Support (Hard Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- HR Program Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
2. HR Lead, BlueCrest Technologies, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall organization strategy.
- Handle all employee grievances and suggestions with a 360-degree view and with long-term policy design and its impact in mind.
- Lead the way in implementing change initiatives related to culture, performance, recognition and policies
- Lead Talent Acquisition across levels with a dedicated focus and plan for diversity hiring.
- Responsible for recruitment and allocations across the teams
- Coordinate with different verticals to manage the full ecosystem of resources and the effective development of the organization's human resources.
- Manage end-to-end employee life cycle, including induction, compensation, talent management and exit processes for the Tamil Nadu project.
- Manage the complete database related to team mapping, project mapping and movement across offices.
- Build and manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organisation.
- Plan for the future of their workplaces, identifying potential threats and opportunities for attracting and retaining top talent.
- Make positive changes to their organization's culture.
- Implement an effective Performance Management System with a view to increasing the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the Organization’s performance.
- Assist in the development, execution and maintenance of skills development strategy.
- Identify and ensure the highest retention of top-rated performers.
- Provide a sense of direction to the learning and development activities and come up with innovative ways to impart the activities.
- Design a robust system that helps to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of learning programs on an ongoing basis.
Skills on Resume:
- HR Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Change Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Diversity Hiring (Hard Skills)
- Resource Allocation (Hard Skills)
- Grievance Handling (Soft Skills)
- Performance Management (Hard Skills)
- Talent Retention (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
3. HR Lead, SilverOak Partners, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Report to the VP of HR, this role combines a blend of strategic and operational HR business leadership.
- Responsible for playing a significant role in the design and implementation of various people, talent, culture and OD-related initiatives for the group across all its European operations.
- Operate effectively across a multinational matrix business and demonstrate excellent facilitation, influencing and execution skills.
- Understand the business and people priorities for Europe.
- Collaborate with other international HR colleagues and business units in order to diagnose and identify interventions needed to improve organisational effectiveness and scale operations across the region.
- Partner with and coach leaders to facilitate ambitious international growth plans.
- Educate the business on HR trends /programs that may affect business decision-making.
- Acquire business sponsorship for HR initiatives.
- Close collaboration with HR and business stakeholders across the region and internationally.
- Talent Acquisition and Talent Management will be critical.
- Close collaboration with the regional Leadership team and US, assist and design workforce planning, hiring and employer branding efforts.
- Provide clear market expertise and input on regional hiring priorities.
- Build management capability to facilitate an open, inclusive, values-based environment that enables effective employee relations.
Skills on Resume:
- HR Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Talent Management (Hard Skills)
- Workforce Planning (Hard Skills)
- Change Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Leadership Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Employee Relations (Soft Skills)
- Market Expertise (Hard Skills)
4. HR Lead, RedStone Logistics, Omaha, NE
Job Summary:
- Advise the organization in Employment and Labor Law and Employee and Labor Relations matters
- Inherit, assist with and manage a caseload of employment cases
- Provide advice on all aspects of Employment Law, including grievance and discipline management, work environment projects like TUPE, M&A
- Assist the Employee professionals, which will include all aspects of employment and labor relations work
- Manage requests for advice from HR professionals throughout the organization
- Monitoring federal and local employment law development that impacts organizational policy
- Draft, review, analyze and organize documents in litigation and transactional matters
- Monitor ongoing matter activity and pending deadlines in litigation and transactional matters
- Know and adhere to the Johnson and Johnson Code of Business Conduct and all other requirements relevant to the role and demonstrate behaviors consistent with Credo values
- Draft and review legal documents such as contracts, templates, correspondence, and reports
Skills on Resume:
- Employment Law Advisory (Hard Skills)
- Labor Relations (Soft Skills)
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
- Policy Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Litigation Support (Hard Skills)
- Document Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Adherence (Hard Skills)
- Contract Review (Hard Skills)
5. HR Lead, ClearPath Innovations, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Lead and coordinate the legalization of corporate documents, including monitoring the entire process
- Support activities around HR related projects, including acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and policies
- Acting as a business liaison between in-house counsel and outside counsel
- Propose new procedures and optimize and implement existing procedures
- Create and provide training on various ERLR topics and procedures
- Actively participate in identifying best practices and supporting process improvement initiatives in a continued effort
- Manage and oversee the pending and litigation for certain legal entities
- Support for finalizing and executing legal HR documents
- Contact for Employment Law-oriented mail
- Support of projects, such as policy harmonization
- Organize and maintain databases and files.
Skills on Resume:
- Document Legalization (Hard Skills)
- HR Project Support (Hard Skills)
- Business Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Procedure Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Training Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Litigation Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Database Management (Hard Skills)
6. HR Lead, Horizon Dynamics, Salt Lake City, UT
Job Summary:
- Collect data and records
- Provide ad-hoc support to the other members of the ERLR Department
- Analyze data regarding reductions-in-force, opening, and maintaining case files in a case management database
- Drive, support and enable People Leaders to manage direct interventions to manage the most sensitive cases and or escalations
- Act as Guardian of Credo
- Monitor company adherence to labor agreements and drives and manages the local Work Councils landscape
- Manage the operational plans to increase the effectiveness of services while improving the customer experience
- Employee Relations - ensure timely and compliant handling of all Grievance and Discipline requests.
- Coach and train managers on managing performance issues
- Recommend collective bargaining strategy, goals and objectives, ad hoc Labor Relations consulting, legal advisor for major workforce events (M&A, Divestitures, Restructuring…)
- Investigate and evaluate union and employee complaints
- Act as a mediator for labor disputes or contract negotiations
- Train managers on topics related to employment and labor relations, such as working conditions, discipline management, and/or equal opportunity practices
Skills on Resume:
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
- Employee Relations (Soft Skills)
- Manager Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Labor Agreement Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Service Effectiveness (Hard Skills)
- Labor Relations Consulting (Hard Skills)
- Mediation (Soft Skills)
7. HR Lead, BrightField Networks, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Responsible for implementing HR strategies and processes aligned with the company's business strategy
- Responsible for areas such as employment contracts, onboarding, offboarding, mobility, database management, talent management, and training administration
- Manage the work of 2 subordinates
- Administration of HR-related processes
- Conduct personnel analysis, estimations
- Provide reports and statistics
- Cooperate with external vendors
- Cooperate with the international Global HR team
- Act as CoE Mobility Local Lead
- Respond to incoming queries and manage assigned cases
- Talent management process administration
- Annual salary review and promotions processes administration
- Assign work to subordinate staff and monitor progress and deadlines for assigned work activities
Skills on Resume:
- HR Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Talent Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Administration (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Personnel Analysis (Hard Skills)
- HR Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
8. HR Lead, Summit Ridge Systems, Spokane, WA
Job Summary:
- Develops a people strategy that anticipates needs within the business strategy and that enables its delivery
- Defines, implements HR Strategies and designs a workforce plan that ensures that the Trafilea strategy can be delivered
- Develops the company culture to foster trust and drive business performance.
- Pushes and realizes projects of the Talent and Culture area.
- Anticipates and leads transformation/change management.
- Ensures Trafilero’s retention
- Enhance safety and wellness programs
- Directs the development of business plans and strategies to control HR costs and optimize resources
- Designs the growth strategy of the organization in terms of attracting talent
- Designs the regional strategy for Internal Communication, Learning and Development.
Skills on Resume:
- People Strategy (Hard Skills)
- HR Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Culture Development (Soft Skills)
- Talent Projects (Hard Skills)
- Change Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Retention Strategy (Soft Skills)
- Wellness Programs (Hard Skills)
- Growth Strategy (Hard Skills)
9. HR Lead, MapleLeaf Consulting, Burlington, VT
Job Summary:
- Renew, cohesive and performing HR team (team fully staffed, 16 - 20 pax)
- Improve the talent experience/journey (decreased turnover rate, time to fill open positions, new onboarding in place)
- Responsible for establishing as a key function in the company (annual plan formalized and implemented)
- Develop an external network to conduct benchmarks and strategic monitoring on HR subjects
- Responsible for leading the HR Team
- Foster openness and trust, as well as a collaborative mindset, to break silos and act as One Team
- Inspire and lead by example.
- Give a sense of purpose, leveraging internal communication to mobilize and engage towards a common vision
- Empower through involvement, delegation, and trust
- Provide overall leadership, guidance, and feedback to all team leaders in Trafilea.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Building (Soft Skills)
- Talent Experience (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- Networking (Soft Skills)
- HR Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Vision Communication (Soft Skills)
- Empowerment (Soft Skills)
10. HR Lead, PineBridge Enterprises, Charleston, SC
Job Summary:
- Full ownership delivery of the agreed GBS scope and full potential roadmap in allocated offices
- Monitor service levels for his/her team and drive execution of action plans
- Drive a strong service culture and make Professional Standards, Operating Principles and Best Demonstrated Practices understood and applied
- Set up and monitor quality control processes to ensure a “zero-defect” attitude for operations
- Monitor/approve absences and holidays
- Work with HR to address any absence issues
- Regularly assess workload and run efficiency/productivity improvement initiatives
- Organise backup to ensure continuity of service, possibly across all GBS HC Operations teams
- Monitor attrition and perform root cause analyses
- Agree on open GBS positions with supported offices and communicate to relevant stakeholders
- Coordinate the GBS recruitment process for the team
Skills on Resume:
- Service Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Team Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Service Culture (Soft Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Absence Management (Hard Skills)
- Productivity Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Continuity Planning (Hard Skills)
- Recruitment Coordination (Hard Skills)
11. HR Lead, Evergreen Consulting Group, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Recommend selection criteria and review applications
- Organise and run induction sessions for all hires to his/her team.
- Actively pursue the outcome of the probationary period for new entrants.
- Ensure appropriate documentation is prepared and delivered in a timely fashion.
- Ensure quality input is received from supported offices.
- Recommend to the GBS Manager a decision on all GBS employees passing out of the probationary period.
- Train team members to process and office within his/her scope.
- Prepare training material to do so.
- Chair and lead regular team meetings.
- Initiate knowledge and experience sharing sessions within the team and more broadly within the GBS.
- Manage training plans for the team (content, frequency, channels, trainers).
- Conduct individual catch-ups with all team members on a regular basis, reviewing skill plans, summary updates and tracking progression.
- Manage the yearly review process for the team.
- Responsible for leveraging Full Potential roadmaps in allocated offices to drive best practices within scope.
- Recommend process and efficiency improvements, and share them broadly across all EMEA offices.
Skills on Resume:
- Selection Criteria (Hard Skills)
- Induction Management (Hard Skills)
- Probation Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Training (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Knowledge Sharing (Soft Skills)
- Performance Review (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
12. HR Lead, Horizon Talent Solutions, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Serve as “Compliance and Integrity Leader” for the US, handling intake of reports and conducting investigations
- Monitor and evaluate US compliance developments and take actions to implement proactive risk mitigation plans and evaluate their effectiveness.
- Provide consultation on regulatory changes, requirements and policy changes.
- Build positive relationships and partnerships with various stakeholders in the business to drive cross-functional compliance initiatives while anticipating and meeting evolving business needs.
- Partner with Legal and Integrity on investigations, Code of Conduct training and interpretation, NLRA compliance, responding to EEOC charges, and risk mitigation.
- Partner with Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll on paid sick leave laws, FMLA, ADA, FLSA, wage and hour compliance.
- Draft and revise US HR policies to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and organizational strategies and goals.
- Manage the US Policy Library by reviewing and updating policies on a timely basis.
- Oversee Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) or Department of Labor (DOL) audits.
- Manage the EEO-1 and Vets-4212 reporting process.
- Work with Talent Acquisition and HR Business Partners.
- Ensure hiring and employment processes meet compliance standards, including targeted outreach to veterans, minorities, women, and people with disabilities.
- Advise Enterprise Platforms to ensure systems and processes support compliance and data is accessible in case of an audit or legal challenge (I-9s, applicant tracking, promotion).
- Work with the Diversity and Inclusion team to provide consultation on workforce goals and planning, and a regulatory perspective on diversity goals and obligations.
- Ensure audit-ready I-9 and E-Verify processes.
Skills on Resume:
- Compliance Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Risk Mitigation (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Consultation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Investigation Support (Hard Skills)
- Policy Management (Hard Skills)
- Audit Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Compliance (Hard Skills)
13. Project HR Lead, Cedar Creek Enterprises, Little Rock, AR
Job Summary:
- Manage day-to-day processes and policies relating to human resources and labour relations operations.
- Provide guidance and support to managers in the areas of performance management, employee relations and career development.
- Lead an effective onboarding process to ensure consistent messaging across the project.
- Leverage HR dashboards, reports and data to drive business decisions and tactics.
- Support the execution of employee performance programs and expectations to maximize workforce productivity.
- Monitor workforce engagement for trends that require action to ensure high employee morale and retention.
- Serve as a change agent by influencing key stakeholders in support of organizational needs.
- Act as a liaison with HR Shared Services to ensure the delivery of support to exceed internal client needs.
- Support the Project HR Manager in leading labour relations meetings with the appropriate project unionized provider.
- Manage craft employee issues such as grievances, terminations and disciplinary actions.
- Support implementation of all LR programs, policies and procedures.
- Communicate and support any district-related LR initiatives for craft employees.
Skills on Resume:
- HR Operations (Hard Skills)
- Performance Management (Hard Skills)
- Onboarding Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Employee Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Labor Relations (Hard Skills)
14. HR Lead, Copperfield Industries, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Manage a team of 2 Process/Business Analysts
- Assist with HR operations capability in an end-to-end global process improvement methodology.
- Help to execute process re-design utilizing analytics/data to drive prioritized improvements.
- Partner with the HR Systems team to establish automation of activities on a variety of systems.
- Responsible for the end-to-end design and implementation of system enhancements supported by IT, including, for example, documenting business requirements and test scripts.
- Improve employee and HR-facing content/knowledge for employee lifecycle processes by applying new HR knowledge/content guidelines, including operationalization activities such as work instructions and training materials.
- Work closely with HR and other corporate teams to lead and drive end-to-end process improvement.
- Build and lead effective process change management and communication plans
- Establish and sustain an effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across HR process activities
- Lead the development of HR projects to realize the key capability requirements of the future operating model.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Management (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Redesign (Hard Skills)
- HR Systems Automation (Hard Skills)
- System Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Content Development (Hard Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- Governance Framework (Hard Skills)
15. HR Lead, Northgate Technologies, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Manage site people ops work, including onboard and offboard process, labor contract, maintaining employee data(P-file), updating HR report, foreign employee’s work permit and other people ops-related hoc tasks.
- Work with HR agents on commercial insurance and flexible benefits arrangements.
- Partner with the site lead to manage performance evaluation, employee relationship, employee engagement, training and other HR BP-related topics.
- Support the recruiting team in arranging OS interviews and campus hiring in Shanghai.
- Collaborate with other sites' HR to carry out HR projects in Shanghai
- Be a cultural ambassador of Pony.ai
- Partner closely with the leadership and HR teams to build out people processes and programs from scratch across the employee lifecycle.
- Help guide HR, managers and their teams to support high engagement and performance in a hyper-growth, ever-changing environment.
- Provide expert consulting services to managers and employees on HR programs, processes, and initiatives.
- Responsible for shaping the future direction of the people agenda for the new sites in the US, EMEA and APAC while collaborating with the wider global HR team.
Skills on Resume:
- People Operations (Hard Skills)
- Onboarding/Offboarding (Hard Skills)
- Employee Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Performance Management (Hard Skills)
- Employee Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Support (Hard Skills)
- Cultural Ambassadorship (Soft Skills)
- HR Consulting (Soft Skills)
16. HR Lead, Crestview Partners, Tacoma, WA
Job Summary:
- Understand the business to champion to development and implementation of effective HR strategies, policies and programmes
- Take charge of the full spectrum of HR, including developing policies, directing and coordinating HR activities such as compensation and benefits, performance review, employee engagement and relations, employee services and other HR-related matters
- Build and enhance employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle with people initiatives and process improvements
- Build strong partnerships with business line managers and employees to effectively implement HR programmes and resolve employee relations issues
- Drive change management, process improvement and organizational effectiveness
- Manage employee-related surveys, job evaluations, data analysis and insights to identify gaps and make recommendations
- Provide advice and guidance across a variety of HR issues, initiatives and legislation
- Develop and coach people to deliver a high-performing team environment that enables people to be the best that they can be
- Work within a Matrix environment, achieving results through effective influencing and collaboration
- Lead change and business transition in organisations
Skills on Resume:
- HR Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Policy Development (Hard Skills)
- Employee Experience (Soft Skills)
- Business Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- HR Advisory (Soft Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)