Senior HR Business Partner

Come join the Tillamook Team, one of the fastest-growing dairy brands in the US, where we Play to Win to create over 200 dairy products in 7 different categories: cheese, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream, butter, cream cheese and frozen meals. Our Uncompromising Quality has led us to become the #1 Cheddar, #2 Cream Cheese and #3 Family Size Ice Cream brand, but we’re not stopping there. We’re loading up for our best years to come and want you to join us.

As a farmer-owned cooperative since 1909, we know that being Good Stewards for our stakeholders and doing a little extra always pays off. We’re looking for team members with a One Team and Genuine Care mindset who are inspired to share the delight of the Tillamook brand with each other and others every day.

What you will do:

The Senior HR Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor and day-to-day HR partner to leaders across professional, technical, administrative, and shared-services functions. As part of a collaborative HR Business Partner team, the role provides practical support across employee relations, performance management, talent, engagement, and workforce planning for assigned functions. The role also brings organizational design, organizational effectiveness, facilitation, and workforce capabilities that can support priorities across the organization in partnership with other HR Business Partners and Learning & Development to identify capability needs, shape learning solutions, and support effective organizational change.

Here’s a day in the life:

1) Strategic HR and Organizational Partnership

Serve as the primary HR partner for assigned professional, technical, administrative, and shared-services functions

Advise and coach leaders on employee relations, performance, engagement, policy interpretation, documentation, and change

Support and lead talent reviews, succession and development planning, compensation discussions, and other recurring people processes

Translate business priorities into practical workforce, talent, capability, and organizational actions, partnering with leaders, HR specialty teams, and other HR Business Partners as needed

Work as part of a collaborative HR Business Partner team, sharing insights, tools, and accountability for consistent support

Work across the organization with other HR Business Partners and Learning & Development to apply organizational design, organizational effectiveness, facilitation, learning-needs assessment, and workforce-planning expertise beyond assigned client groups

2)Organization and Talent Design

Partner with leaders to assess organization structures, role scope, reporting relationships, spans and layers, decision rights, and capability needs

Facilitate development of team visions, future-state capabilities, and talent priorities aligned with business strategy and the broader talent landscape

Distinguish true capacity gaps from priority, process, or role-design issues before adding headcount, and redirect capacity to higher-value work

Improve organizational effectiveness by helping leaders clarify roles, decision-making, stakeholder needs, accountability, communication, and team operating practices

Partner with Learning & Development to translate organizational design work, capability gaps, and team effectiveness needs into practical learning, development, and enablement solutions

3)People Data and Insights

Use people and business data to identify workforce, talent, engagement, and performance trends

Translate findings into practical recommendations and monitor progress on agreed actions

Assess the effectiveness of people programs and practices and recommend improvements based on outcomes and business needs

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Minimum 10 years of progressive HR experience, including substantial HR Business Partner experience supporting professional, technical, administrative, or shared-services functions in a large, complex organization

Broad hands-on experience with employee relations, investigations, performance management, leader coaching, talent and succession planning, engagement, policy guidance, workforce planning, and change

Demonstrated experience partnering with functional leaders in a matrixed, multi-function environment and working collaboratively within an HR Business Partner team

Organizational design experience, including organization assessment, structure options, spans and layers, role clarity, decision rights, capability planning, and implementation support

Experience facilitating team vision, future capability, talent-needs, learning-needs, and development discussions in partnership with leaders and Learning & Development

Ability to apply organizational design, facilitation, or workforce-planning expertise beyond directly assigned client groups

Demonstrated ability to partner with Learning & Development to identify capability gaps, co-design learning strategies, and support implementation of development solutions that enable organizational effectiveness

Industry leading benefit and reward programs:

We offer outstanding benefits to our employees. For more information, please visit the careers page: www.tillamook.com/careers .

We are committed to creating a culture of inclusion where all employees are heard, valued and feel a sense of belonging. We rely on different perspectives, thoughts, backgrounds and cultures to inform our work, to help us be better as a brand and as an employer and to fuel our success. We are seeking talent from a wide range of diversity, perspectives, and backgrounds to join our exceptional organization and help us build our future.

Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) is a Drug-Free Workplace. EEO

TCCA prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability status (including those related to pregnancy and childbirth), protected veteran status, membership/non-membership in a labor organization, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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