HR Business Partner - Advanced Drainage Systems

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.  For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials.  Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers. 

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

• Strategic Mindset – anticipates future trends and implications accurately
• Decision Quality – relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions
• Customer Focus – identifies opportunities that benefit the business
• Business Insight – keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace
• Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions
• Optimizes Work Processes – seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering
• Ensures Accountability – establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results
• Collaborates – works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives
• Develops Talent – develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments
• Builds Effective Teams – forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience
• Drives Vision and Purpose – talks about future possibilities in a positive way
• Courage – faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

We are seeking a dynamic HR Business Partner to join our team!

Reporting to a HR Manager, this visible and engaged role will lead the delivery of HR programs for our Distribution Center (DC) team. This role is a critical partner to leadership, focusing on aligning HR strategies with business goals while driving employee engagement, operational excellence, and organizational growth. The ideal candidate will possess strong ethical, intellectual and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with decentralized teams across 20+ DC locations. This position is based in Hillard, OH, and requires business travel up to 30%, based on business needs.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Engage with business leaders to translate operational strategies into specific talent strategies and tactical priorities
• Lead the enhancement and execution of performance management, talent assessment, succession management, and learning programs and processes
• Provide effective employee relations support on human resource matters through strong execution of our employee relations programs, balanced counsel, policy evaluation and implementation, and conducting confidential investigations when required
• Facilitate our recruiting and onboarding processes to attract the depth and diversity of talent needed to meet our business objectives
• Support the evaluation and leveraging of our total rewards programs to ensure their alignment with business strategies and employee understanding
• Collaborate and partner with DC and HR team to achieve functional strategies and priorities  

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of focused and relevant HR Generalist / Business Partner experience, with additional experience in other HR disciplines preferred
• Broad and strong understanding of HR laws, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Demonstrated ability to engage and partner with leaders through strong business acumen to achieve business objectives through talent programs
• Focused experience in building and executing professional, functional, managerial, and leadership learning and development programs
• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or a related discipline
• High level of ethical, intellectual, professional and personal values that complement the team
• A collaborative leader who is confident and assertive in style, but respectful to others
• Team oriented with the ability to build deep relationships and earn the respect of others
• A strategic thinker with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills needed to effectively share and engage the entire organization in key strategic and operational talent initiatives
• Ability to foster strong team morale, bring fun to the workplace, share wins and successes and foster open dialogue
• Model our ADS Leadership Competencies 

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ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.