Human Resources Manager

Thomson Reuters is a global company that informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government and media.

The Human Resources Manager is aligned to supporting the Reuters News organization in the United States. This position will be responsible for implementing the North America Regional Team initiatives including a) acting as a trusted advisor and coach to managers, working with them to develop HR solutions to people related business challenges, leveraging other partners in HR where needed, b) implementing and driving adoption of business specific HR initiatives, practices, and policies and c) driving successful execution of cyclical HR processes.

In addition to the moderately complex HR support provided to the client group, the HR Manager contributes to the enterprise-wide HR functional agenda through wider Business Unit and projects which may include collaborating or mentoring other North America and Global Regional team members.

About the Role
In this opportunity as an HR Manager, you will:

Act as a trusted advisor and coach to managers, working with them to develop HR solutions to people related business challenges, leveraging other partners in HR where needed.

• In line with the Reuters's business demands and needs, deliver support for which the North America Regional HR Team is accountable within core events (e.g. managing moderate to complex employee relations issues, addressing performance issues, and supporting cyclical HR processes)
• Establish strong relationships and communication channels with key business managers, proactively understand customer needs and prioritize workload accordingly in line with HRBP, Business, and North America Regional HR Team direction.
• Provide support to both union and non-union employee populations including ensuring compliance and appropriate process application for the different employee populations.
• Leverage data and analytics to monitor for trends, ensuring appropriate level of quality control and implementation of improvements. Bring forward solutions or recommendations to Regional HR Leadership, Reuters HRBPs, or business manager that could have an impact on business performance or support organizational effectiveness/efficiency or drive change.
• Provide effective consultation when working with managers, employees, and key stakeholders to independently identify and proactively work to resolve problems that are not well defined and use interpretive thinking and judgment to identify and deliver the best solution for the business and HR. Utilizing the advice and services of broader COE and global HR relationship networks where required.

Implement and embed TR, North America Regional HR and business specific HR projects and initiatives across Reuters News group:

• Coach and counsel managers on overall performance management and addressing performance concerns. Educate, promote, and help to ensure adoption of consistent practices, tools and resources for both union and non-union employee populations.
• Implement BU specific projects with client group in line with overall project plan (i.e. organizational restructures, job changes, and potential RIFs).
• Provide regular communication and education as needed to key stakeholders on both local and global HR processes. laws, tools, practices and policies to managers.
• Seek opportunities to act as a change champion and influence business stakeholders toembed key change initiatives within client group (e.g. values and behaviors). This includes the promotion of new business engagement processes such as leveraging Workday Case Management.
• Communicate, educate, and promote the HR model to client groups so they are clear on who to go to for what HR support, including promotion of leveraging Workday Case Management.
• Collaborate with the Global Mobility team to support the flow of international transfers by providing additional guidance, education, and facilitation of the employee relocation between countries.

Drive successful execution of HR cyclical processes (Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Performance Management, and Talent) across client group by:

• Partnering with centers of expertise to understand objectives of process and overall timelines and key messages.
• Regularly engage and collaborate with HR Operations, Payroll, HR Services Center, HR Digital, and Benefits teams to ensure accurate management of union employee population including but not limited to policies, pay practices, and benefits.
• Where relevant, contributing to the overall development of the cyclical process implementation and communications plan for the BU.
• Reinforcing timeline and centralized resources available to people managers.
• Preparing for and assist in facilitating meetings with groups of managers where these are required to review and discuss input from individual managers and ensure a consistent and aligned outcome (e.g. PAWs, Talent Reviews)
• Complete data-audits as required to support cyclical processes

In addition to providing moderately complex HR support to the client group, the HR manager contributes to the wider HR functional agenda through:

• Adoption and leveraging Company tools and resources that support activities of working smarter including leveraging AI and applications to ensure compliance, improved efficiencies, and HR's evolution of use new technology technologies.
• Mentor and collaborate with other Regional HR team members
• Contributing to large scale or global and enterprise projects
• Driving towards improved customer excellence

Behaviors

• Values and Behaviors - demonstrates positive values, role modeling the Company behaviors (trust, partnership, innovation and performance).
• Learning Agility - Learns quickly when facing new problems, a relentless and versatile learner, and open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement, experiments and will try anything to find solutions, enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers, gets first- hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services, acts with customers in mind, establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Interpersonal and Relationship Savvy -Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization, builds appropriate rapport, builds constructive and effective relationships, uses diplomacy and tact, can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probes all fruitful sources for answers, can see hidden problems, is excellent at honest analysis, looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
• Dealing with Ambiguity - Can effectively cope with change, can shift gears comfortably, can decide and act without having the total picture, isn't upset when things are up in the air, doesn't have to finish things before moving on, can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Organizational Agility - Knowledgeable about how organizations work, knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network, understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures, understands the cultures of organizations.

About You
You're a fit for the role of HR Manager if your background includes:

• Solid knowledge of a broad range of HR policies and processes impacting the employee life cycle with the ability to demonstrate strategic HR thinking.
• Previous experience supporting unions highly desired
• Broad knowledge of and demonstrated experience with US laws including federal and state laws/regulations, including but not limited to Title VII, ADA, ADEA and FMLA
• Understands the "Agility" operating philosophy of ways of working and experience in managing change.
• Understanding of HR concepts and theories and experience of application in a number of different contexts and environments
• Experience with employee relations and performance management coaching
• Strong understanding of different roles within the HR function and how the different groups work together to deliver a high-quality customer experience.
• Solid presentation skills, research & analysis and business writing experience.
• Solid organizational and analytical skills the ability to provide effective project management
• Typically, 3-5+ years of HR experience preferred, preferably in a large global organization
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree preferred. PHR or SHRM-CP a plus.

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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