**Description** Essential Responsibilities + Provide thoughtful leadership, coaching and direction on HR related matters directly impacting the business. Examples include: + Coaching – Coach and influence leaders from a people perspective, developing their people management/leadership skills and constructively challenging their behaviors/actions. + Workforce Planning – Participates in business meetings to support manpower planning needs. Actively helps with recruitment efforts within the business unit as needed. + Succession Planning – Drive and facilitate talent review discussions and review people development plans. + Collaborates with teams to guide employee development, teambuilding, performance management and talent planning. Enhances culture through employee discussions, exit interviews, manager feedback, employee survey results, while identifying opportunities to improve performance results. + Serves as employee advocate ensuring that the people strategy is on the agenda and supports the overall goals. + Facilitates engagement survey results sessions and assists with development and execution of action plans. Deliver progress updates on a quarterly basis. + Oversees employee relations issues and conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations. Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. + Conduct restaurant HR Audit semi-annually and follow-up with Operations Leadership team on findings. + Coach new managers on how to use HR systems, location/use of HR tools and payroll process. + Attend restaurant Openings to support restaurant management team on HR tasks. + Facilitate Manager Assimilations for newly promoted leaders in the District Manager / Regional Director roles. + Work on projects and annual updates for HR tools and systems as directed by the VP of HR. + Responsible for updates in UKG for Recruiting/Onboarding HR tools. + Work with restaurant teams on Everify questions and issues with new hire verifications. + Manage unemployment responses for designated territory when unemployment claims are filed. + Weekly restaurant visits to proactively support operations, partnering with RDO, DM’s and restaurant management teams. Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities + Ability to make decisions and operate independently with respect to complex issues and legalities. + Sound technical knowledge and experience as an HR Generalist with proven track record of developing value-added HR solutions. + Excellent teambuilding and influencing skills, unquestioned integrity, and the experience to effectively address sensitive HR issues + Thrive in a fast-paced and loosely structured environment while also working independently with minimal supervision + Proven experience of organization and business understanding by the demonstration of partnering with the business to understand Business priorities, principles and practices + Ability to work closely with others as part of a team while being able to take full ownership for assigned projects + Ability to anticipate and solve complex problems or resolve issues + Strong negotiation and presentation skills + Ability to use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions + Ability to travel 25 – 50% Education and Experience + BA/BS highly desirable with 3+ years of related experience, including HR generalist experience + 2+ years direct or indirect supervisory experience Physical Demands + Exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including papers, boxes and/or computer equipment. **Qualifications** **Behaviors** **Required** + **Enthusiastic:** Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest + **Team Player:** Works well as a member of a group + **Functional Expert:** Considered a thought leader on a subject + **Detail Oriented:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well