Senior Manager Human Resources - Remote (Boston Location)

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The Senior Human Resources Manager will collaborate across the human resource department to build out and manage a variety of programs, policies and initiatives and will set expectations and priorities to deliver the best employee experience. The Senior Human Resources Manager will handle all elements of new hire onboarding and employee offboarding in partnership with other internal teams, ensuring an superior experience for all new hires by providing consistent experiences across all business segment in Nordic's global enterprise. The Senior Human Resources Manager will also oversee compliance, vendor relationships and benefit program administration. Additionally, they will maintain our company pay philosophy and policies.
The Senior Human Resources Manager will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Managing and leading team members, supporting efficiency and team goals while ensuring alignment with Nordic vision
• Collaborating with business line leaders to support departmental strategies and business operations
• Collaborating across departments and teams to lead onboarding and offboarding business operations and initiatives
• Directly managing, mentoring and developing a team of direct reports focused on benefits, compensation and onboarding, with an emphasis on creating a team and culture that is empowered to execute
• Managing project timelines for department initiatives.
• Oversee department data integrity in our systems and provide oversight of reporting and auditing requests
• Partner with internal teams to build out policies and processes as we enter new geographies
• Management of compensation programs, including oversight of job design and pricing, pay program design, and ensuring our pay policies comply with changing state and federal laws and regulations
• Developing, leading, and overseeing benefit programs based on requirements and trends administering operations of health and welfare plans including: medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, life insurance, disability insurance, EAP, wellness, and employee perks
• Management of compliance for leave administration, including: FMLA, Medical LOA, STD
• Manage local and global benefit broker relationships
• Oversee vendor management, contracting and administration within the human resources department, for: hiring and onboarding, health and welfare, retirement, background screening, pre-employment physicals, drug testing and other client requested medical testing programs and services. Act as primary point of contact for all related vendors regarding administrative matters or escalated service issues.
• Support Human Resource and Talent teams with organizational changes and M&A activities
• Partner with talent, managers, employees/candidates and external immigration attorneys on all immigration matters

Skills and Experience

• Must demonstrate and embody Nordic's maxims
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 5 + years related human resources compliance and benefits administration experience required, global experience a plus
• 3+ years related human resources management experience preferred
• CEBS or HR certification preferred
• 1-3 years of experience with and understanding of immigration practices and policies. Including visa categories, green cards, and petitions.
• Demonstrated communication skills, written and verbal
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting customer service commitments and project timelines
• Maintains a continuous improvement mindset, consistently looking for ways to deliver a stronger, more efficient employee experience
• Experience utilizing HR, CRM or ATS technologies, (e.g. Workday, NetSuite or similar)

Location

• Boston, MA based is highly preferred.