HR Business Partner

Ergon is seeking a full-time HR Business Partner to join our Human Resources Team.

The HR Business Partner is responsible for supporting the development and implementation HR strategies aligned with the organization's business objectives, and partner with cross-functional teams and leaders to provide HR services that support staffing, compensation, employee relations and talent management needs.

This role will work closely with the HR Director for organization wide strategic initiatives, work closely with operational leaders for coaching/support within their teams and act as a point of contact for employees in their day-to-day needs.

HR Business Partner Responsibilities:

- Managerial Support: Consults management and employees on employee relations issues, ensuring awareness of and compliance with employment laws: guide performance management, corrective counselling, training and development.

- Point of Contact for Front Line Needs: Available for employees to seek understanding and help resolve behavioral situations, payroll & benefits topics, policy specific items, and ensuring successful working environment and dynamic within teams

- Partner to Operations: Develops and maintains strong partnerships with the operational leaders, acting as a trusted advisor and partner in understanding and resolving employee issues and strengthening their managerial ability

- Project Manager: Support and/or autonomously drive assigned projects that may be specific to one Ergon company or across several Ergon companies

- Recruiting & Onboarding: Collaborates with hiring managers to ensure effective associate onboarding and integration. Works towards reducing turnover and enhancing the overall employee experience for new team members with partnership of hiring manager.

- Data based Decision Making: Comfortable working with data. Ability to analyze data sets and present on trends/proposed solutions via analysis and recommended actions

- Employee Development: Support training and development strategy and implementation. Working with operational leaders to understand gaps in team member skills sets, technical and soft skills and partnering with them in delivering training to support development

- Provide Guidance on Compensation: Supports compensation best practices in staffing, promotional moves and hiring process to promote consistency to internal benchmarks and ensure competitiveness in hiring vs market wages

- Strategic Initiatives: Works closely with HR leaders in corporate and embedded HR teams to partner, develop and implement HR policies and processes to improve the business and employee experience

HR Coordinator Qualifications:

- Bachelor in HR or related field preferred, but not mandatory

- 3 years experience in HR

- Strong experience in employee relations: Employee Behavioral Coaching, investigations and handling personnel topics

- Effective communicator and ability to work collaboratively with others in cross functional teams

- Experience in talent development processes including recruiting and training/development for employees

- Project Management experience

Why Ergon Inc.?

At Ergon, we are a relationship-driven, family-owned company that values each employee's growth and contributions. Headquartered in Flowood, Mississippi, we take pride in maintaining a close-knit, small-company atmosphere while offering exceptional career opportunities. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

- Competitive pay

- 401(k) matching & profit sharing

- Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

- Short- and Long-Term Disability Plans

- Additional voluntary benefits

- Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave

- Tuition assistance

At Ergon, we live by our core values:

- Empowered Service: Together, we're committed to delivering unparalleled service. We do what's right, provide solutions, and foster stronger relationships with our teams and customers. Employee safety is our top priority and the first consideration in all aspects of our service. That's empowered service.

- Selfless Leadership: We lead with compassion and put those around us before ourselves. We don't say we're experts; we demonstrate it through technical expertise, category innovation and care for what we do. We call this selfless leadership.

- Purposeful Growth: We believe employee growth and company growth go hand in hand. We build our legacy together to ensure future success through purposeful growth. The company has always reinvested tremendously back into the business, but not just growing for the sake of growing, but growing in a careful and strategic way.

- Respectful Relationships: And together, we foster a culture of respect, acceptance and diversity of ideas and of people. Our differences make us stronger. And we're united by our shared values, always forging respectful relationships.

Come and join the Ergon team!

We are an EEO/AAP employer.

Job Role: HR Coordinator

Location: Flowood, MS