As a member of the Executive team reporting to CEO, the VP of People role scope is to architect and build inaugural People function – maximize performance, professional growth, and fulfillment for all employees while ensuring all policies/practices are equitable and compliant. Establish an HRBP foundation by serving as a strategic advisor to leadership and as conduit to the voice of employees. Actively champion culture – drive employee engagement, advance DEI initiatives, and ensure that company values are meaningfully pervasive throughout the organization. Refine our approach to talent acquisition strategy and drive best practices around pipeline sourcing, lead nurturing, and candidate assessment. Elevate our Performance Management process by instilling goal oriented, metric driven objectives and best practices for professional development, talent calibration, and employee retention. Oversee the Total Rewards strategy - corporate benefits and career framework. Lead all organizational design efforts with the Executive team. Own and continuously improve the People Ops technology stack.

Reporting to Chief People Officer with dotted lines to division President, CFO, and SVPs, serve as a strategic advisor and workforce planning lead, responsible for organizational design and development, change management and ensuring that all HR programs are well adopted. Championing a culture of accountability, curiousity, results, and people at their best.

HR business partner responsible for the Housewares division. Integrated newly-acquired Hydro Flask brand into parent company. Leadership advisory, strategic planning, workforce planning, training & development, employee relations, employee engagement, and overseeing team administering employee life-cycle events.

Head of HR for fast growing consumer products company. Both hands-on and strategic, building and rolling out scalable and effective HR processes and policies while fostering a values-focused culture of high performance and team work. Responsible for the change management and effective communication plan to keep all staff informed, aligned with priorities, and able to do their best work.

Responsibility over the HR team at each of the remote locations, as well as corporate generalist duties as outlined below. Serving an employee population of 400 including distribution center, customer service call center, and corporate office.

-Training and Development-Performance Management -Compensation-Full-cycle Recruiting-Change Management-Handbook and Policies - enhancement, creation, and roll-out-Succession Planning and Talent Calibration-Union Contract Negotiations-Employee Relations and Management Coaching-Benefits Administration -Project Management - employee fitness center build out, new building construction -HRIS selection and implementation

Responsible for the adminsitration of all employee benefits plans. Work with Senior Management and insurance broker on the negotiation and selection of annual benefits offerings. Responsible for all new enrollments, terminations, changes and billing. Generalist HR duties for Madison, WI location including administration of Leave of Absences and Worker's Compensation, new hire onboarding, employee relations, location payroll changes, and employee event planning, while ensuring compliance to all internal controls.