Senior Human Resources Director - Forged Products

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Position Summary

The Senior HR Director is the lead Business Partner to the President of Forged Products (FP), a $800M business unit with world-class thermomechanical processing and manufacturing.

The organization comprises ~1700 employees with seven unions across seven sites and two countries. The Senior HRD is a critical member of the FP Senior Leadership Team with responsibility as a strategic advisor and driver of talent and culture initiatives to deliver business results, e.g., OD/OE, succession planning, performance management, recruiting, employee engagement, employee and labor relations, career and capability development, workforce planning/analytics. The role reports to the President, FP and is matrix to the SVP and CHRO and also is a member if the ATI HR Leadership Team. This person will lead a team of 13 that comprises HRBPs, labor and talent development specialists

• Determine data driven workforce plans required to deliver the business strategic and operational goals, including labor (union negotiations) recruiting, development, engagement and annual talent assessment processes, while driving a higher performance culture.
• Develop and drive stakeholder change management plans appropriate to support incremental and transformational organizational change.
• Act as an executive coach to senior leaders.
• Provide organization development and effectiveness strategies and solutions which respond to a dynamic and evolving business organization.
• Ensure that a global mindset is brought to the work and team, understanding the local markets that our teams operate and win in.
• Manage employee relations, partnering with key stakeholders to develop strategies and mitigate risk.
• Lead key HR processes and initiatives, leveraging and partnering with COEs.
• Define and achieve functional excellence in human resource programs and corporate-driven HR initiatives.
• Benchmark against human resource/talent best practices and implement innovation and continuous improvement in support of a dynamic, evolving business organization.
• Champion the development and implementation of enterprise policies and practices that improve the company's ability to recruit, develop, and retain talent.
• Organize, staff, motivate and lead a highly effective HR team that delivers value to the organization with expert recruiting, training and development, succession planning and other human capital activities.
• Facilitate positive working relationships and accountability within and across the business and HR function.
• Travel (<25%) to conduct in-person meetings, reviews, facility / plant tours, etc.

WHO YOU ARE

You're a curious problem solver who has a proven track record of bringing big ideas to life. You're comfortable on the shop floor or in the boardroom and can navigate a large decentralized highly matrixed organization with ease. You're creative, agile and adaptable but work with precision to ensure we deliver top-notch customer experiences, always.

You also have:

• Bachelor's degree in Labor/Employee Relations, Business Management or Human Resources or relevant discipline
• 8+ years of strategic business partnership experience, with team leadership in a complex progressive and global environment along with a strong track record of personal achievement and advancement
• Labor/union negotiation experience
• Experience & proven competency as an influential member of senior leadership team
• Exceptional leader coach
• Broad understanding of management styles, HR polices, compensation, legal, and employment issues
• Strong strategic agility, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills - proven high learning agility
• Decisive, yet highly collaborative and inclusive
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced setting; enthusiastic about the potential strategic options facing ATI; well-grounded in pragmatic approaches to structuring options available
• Experience working in the context of a large, complex, global organization where working across boundaries and leading through influence are keys to success.
• Experience in driving change to deliver business results - knows what it takes to transform an organization
• Excellent presentation and communication/skills, and overall business acumen
• Strong interpersonal skills along with exceptional influence skills - ability and credibility to establish a strong network and align with functional peers and business leaders across a globally matrixed organization
• Ability to move seamlessly between execution and strategic thought, development and alignment
• Aspiration for continued growth

Strongly desirable:

• Graduate degree
• Diverse industry, geography, and client group experience
• Works Council experience
• Proven thought leader in the HR/Talent field (COE experience)

*It is ATI's policy to not provide immigration sponsorship for any of the company's positions.

ATI and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.