SparkCognition catalyzes sustainable growth for their clients throughout the world with proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine learning technology, and a multinational team of AI thought-leaders. Clients are trusted with advancing lives, infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their industry's most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity. With leading-edge artificial intelligence products-Darwin®, DeepArmor®, SparkPredict®, and DeepNLP TM -SparkCognition's clients can adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape and accelerate their business strategies.
We are looking for a strong Human Resources (HR) Manager who is passionate about making a difference in the work they do and will help support our company's amazing teams.
Our HR Manager role has three distinct areas of focus:

If you were working for us today, you would be:

• Actively managing and developing the HR Generalist and HR Coordinator
• Collaborating with the VP of HR on projects and programs that focus on engagement, culture, policy, and process development
• With the VP of HR, developing and implementing HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy
• Supporting current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation, and preservation of human capital
• Nurturing a positive working environment.
• Overseeing and managing a performance appraisal system that drives high performance
• Maintaining our pay plan and benefits program
• Assessing training needs to apply and monitor training programs
• Reporting to management and providing decision support through HR metrics
• Ensuring legal compliance throughout human resource management
• Acting as an HR consultant, delivering insights and solutions to the client group leadership team to address business challenges, while contributing to the development of successful business strategies.
• Partnering with leaders to drive business growth and organizational effectiveness, execute on change management initiatives, and build organizational capability
• Directly supporting leaders with all people initiatives, including compensation planning and talent and performance development
• Strengthening leadership and manager effectiveness, to ensure managers are demonstrating our leadership competencies and modeling our values while developing and growing their employees
• Working closely with client group's management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity and drive retention
• Supporting the company's culture and engagement goals through identification of issues, facilitation of planning solutions and reporting progress
• Ensuring consistent interpretation and administration of company policies and procedures, practices and principles relating to employee relations and risk management; counseling and advising management while recommending approaches to prevent/resolve problems

You may be a fit for our team if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• A minimum 8+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner with expertise in developing effective business partner relationships, influencing executive leadership, management and employee coaching, employee relations, workforce management, and training development and delivery
• Experience in benefits administration, payroll administration and HRIS administration
• Global experience and experience working with sales and/or technical/engineering teams
• Experience that demonstrates strong learning agility, organizational savvy, and a strategic and innovative mindset
• The ability to quickly adapt interpersonal style and influence effectively at all levels in the organization with a high degree of tact and diplomacy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience with people data analytics and proven ability to influence with data; intermediate Excel skills will be needed
• The ability to develop engaging PowerPoint presentations, facilitate small group discussions, and effectively present content to large groups of people; able to adapt messaging and delivery as the audience changes
• The ability to maintain strict confidentiality, establish trust and credibility and act with complete integrity
• The ability to identify and define issues, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and develop recommendations and solutions that meet the needs of the employee as well as the company
• The ability to understand employee opinions, monitor the effect of business decisions on people, and advise leaders and managers on addressing employee concerns
• The ability to evaluate and determine priorities and execute tasks in a rapidly changing environment

It would be great if you had:

• Previous experience in an HR Manager
• Knowledge of immigration practices, processes and laws