The Linear and Micro Motion Divisions, encompassing Thomson, Portescap, Delevan, and Nook brands, is a major contributor to the Automation Motion Control Segment, with approximately 2,000+ global associates and ~$500M in revenue. There are 13 main sites located across the United States, India, Mexico, the Caribbean, China, & Europe.
The Senior Human Resources Manager will encompass all responsibility for driving strategic HR initiatives across operational and functional HR needs in region. This role will serve as key business partner to global and regional leaders and will be an integral member of the regional leadership team, contributing to the overall strategy, direction, and effectiveness in supporting business growth and performance. This role provides insights, guidance, and expertise that support the development and execution of HR strategies, initiatives, and priorities across multiple sites and countries.
This position is responsible for talent acquisition, workforce planning, leadership and talent development, performance management, and employee engagement in the region. In addition, the role will oversee employee relations and labor strategies to ensure compliance with local legislation and foster positive employee relations.
The Senior Regional HR Manager will provide direct leadership and coaching to local HR teams, ensuring consistency of HR practices and driving continuous improvement in talent management, employee retention and workforce productivity across the region.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership
- Act as a strategic HR business partner to regional leadership teams, providing direction, guidance and expertise in all aspects of HR.
- Lead HR initiatives across multiple sites in Europe, ensuring alignment with global HR strategies, and local business needs
- Strong servant leadership skills and ability to thrive in results-oriented environment
Workforce Planning
- Drive workforce planning, succession planning and organizational development to ensure business continuity and growth
- Lead workforce planning to meet production demands and long-term strategic goals
- Monitor HR metrics and provide data-driven insights to improve retention, productivity, and workforce effectiveness.
Talent Management/Leadership Development/ Diversity & Inclusion:
- Develops and leads talent management initiatives to establish robust pipeline of diverse leadership talent
- Manages the talent review and succession planning process, provides expertise and guidance to the function’s leadership and HR teams
- Actively leads and participates in the talent acquisition of key functional positions
- Demonstrates the use of 80/20 continuous improvement and to deliver results- aligned with the Segment and Enterprise HR strategy, including KPI’s with a sense of urgency
HR Operations:
- Foster a positive workplace culture focused on safety, diversity and inclusion
- Oversee HR operations across all manufacturing sites, ensuring consistent practices
- Provide strong oversight on daily complex employee relations investigations to resolution
- Key advisor and coach to business leadership and line management on appropriate HR practices and policies, ensures implementation and HR compliance
- Collaborate with operations and function leaders to identify training needs and implement effective learning solutions
Other skills:
- In-depth knowledge of European Union employment directives, GDPR and Europe labor laws and regulations
- Strength in navigating multi-country HR environments; balancing global policies with local compliance requirements
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and influence across cultures
- Ability to influence and lead change and drive HR initiatives in complex, matrixed and international organizations
- Fluency in English required
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Human Resources or Business-related field.
- Minimum 7 + years demonstrated successful experience within a global industrial manufacturing environment. Experience should include plant level HR responsibility as well as multi-site responsibility.
- Comfortable and ability to work effectively in fast -paced, metric-driven environment. Adapts to rapidly changing dynamics and direction to adjust accordingly
- Ability to travel up to 30%
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
