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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve team efficiency, streamline HR workflows, and enhance talent strategies. • Thinks outside the box to spot inefficiencies, recommend creative solutions, and implement best practices that drive business success. • Partners with cross-functional teams to refine HR processes, ensuring they are effective, practical, and aligned with organizational goals. • Develops a strong relationship and continually maintains, and applies a clear understanding of each business unit they support, and the internal and external factors affecting the workforce. • This intimate knowledge of the department allows the HRBP to assist the functional leader in setting short and long term goals for the group, as well as to develop employee engagement programs and identify at-risk areas within the group. • Partners with the leadership team to understand and execute the organization's human resource and talent strategy particularly as it relates to current and future talent needs, recruiting, retention, and succession planning. • Communicate, implement and monitor performance review process for assigned functions, supporting employees and managers with the steps, expectations, and general questions surrounding both the process and platform used. • Work with senior HR management, legal and benefits staff on ER issues in assigned groups, serving as point person for managers, providing advice on performance counselling and addressing employee complaints. • Provide support and guidance to management, and other staff when complex, specialized, and sensitive questions and issues arise; may be required to administer and execute routine tasks in delicate circumstances such as providing reasonable accommodations, investigating allegations of wrongdoing, and terminations. • Works closely with the Head of Organizational Culture, Executive and Communications teams to create and manage initiatives that help drive culture, embed inclusive and fair practices in all HR topics and priorities, and improve employee experience and performance. • Utilize compensation knowledge on market trends to advise leaders on strategy for merit and bonus reviews, retention, and budget. • Work with managers and the legal department to draft accurate job descriptions, approve FLSA exemption status and create new job codes. • Partner with the legal department to assess legal risks and mitigate exposure and advise leaders of legal concerns. • Creates and leads manager and employee training modules in a variety of development areas, including presentations, supplemental materials and resources, roll out plan, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Required • 3+ years experience in an HR Generalist or HR Business Partner role • 5+ years progressive experience in Human Resources • Understanding of HR legal compliance and regulations • Experience effectively communicating complex, challenging, and sometimes unwelcome information to stakeholders in a variety of levels and circumstances • Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize • Microsoft Excel and analytical skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay and bonus plan • Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) • Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity • Generous paid time off, sick time, discretionary days, and paid holidays (International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, and more!) • Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program • 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance • And much more!