Senior Manager Human Resources

 Senior Manager Human Resources  

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Dessert Holdings (DH) is North America’s Premium Dessert Company, recognized for providing our Retail and Foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients and premium quality.  Dessert Holdings headquarters is based in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is an umbrella organization of four premium dessert company brands: Steven Charles® is known for culinary innovation with locations in Aurora, CO and Pembroke NC.  The Original Cakerie® is a known for its passion and visually stunning creation with locations in Vancouver, BC and London, Ontario Canada.  Lawler’s® Desserts is known for its signature high-profile desserts in the foodservice channel based in Humble, TX, and the Atlanta Cheesecake Company is known for its high-quality retail ready portfolio based in Kennesaw, GA.  Together, the companies serve over 250 customers in North America.  Dessert Holdings is a portfolio company of Bain Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on high growth businesses.  

THE POSITION

The Original Cakerie, a Dessert Holdings company, is looking for a Human Resources Director/Sr. Manager to join our growing team in London, Ontario.  Our facility has rapidly expended over the last two years from around 450 people to almost 1000. This is an exciting opportunity for a business minded human resource professional to be part of the site leadership team and work to develop an HR agenda that finds, develops, engages, and empowers the best people in the industry.  We’re looking for an eager HR professional that will drive operational excellence in HR, act as an advocate for continued business performance, and lead one of our largest facilities as a strategic HR partner.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop a comprehensive people strategy - prioritize initiatives to will help deliver the business strategy
• Influence the strategic agenda for HR capability gaps/opportunities, while leveraging/building relationships at key levels in the organization
• Lead talent acquisition process, ensuring high quality through hires, promotions, and transfers
• Drive the talent management cycle within the business, identify training needs for business and individual development planning
• Proactively design and deliver an HR agenda that creates value for the business today and in the future; go beyond merely responding to requests for service
• Define, prioritize, and measure HR's contribution to business performance as well as monitor and maximize employee productivity to drive business operations
• Shape the organization structure by aligning people and capabilities with key objectives in support of business operations
• Match resource capability to changing business requirements and conditions, maintaining a workforce plan (quantity and quality) and making resource projections
• Work as part of site leadership team, providing HR functional expertise, policy guidance and interpretation when appropriate
• Lead business HR team to ensure delivery of excellent quality local HR services and coordinates additional corporate or other resources as needed to meet local business needs

SKILLSETS DESIRED:

• Business Acumen: An in-depth knowledge of business and its intricacies and the ability to communicate cohesively in business terms. Demonstrated an effective level of business literacy.
• Planning and Organizing: Proactive and takes initiative to get work done; exemplary administrative skills and strong attention to detail, including ability to prioritize, multi-task, organize and manage projects through to completion; adjusts priorities as required; allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently
• Quality:  A strong desire to deliver excellence. Conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines, and achieving results; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations; interpersonal and organizational skills; maintains confidentiality of employee and organizational information.
• Strategic Thinking: A focus on delivering outcomes to meet and anticipate current and future needs.  Approaches challenges with a solutions-mind and thinks creatively to keep moving forward.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in HR or Business Management. Master’s or other post-graduate degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or related fields a plus
• Minimum 10 years related experience
• Progressive experience demonstrating broad understanding of technical and functional components of human resources: talent acquisition, talent management, organizational design/development, succession planning, leadership development, compensation & benefits; compliance; employee communications; training and development and employee relations.
• Experience supporting large manufacturing or warehouse facilities.
• Experience in a high performing HR culture