Senior People Operations Manager

The Senior People Operations Manager will be responsible for designing and managing processes that support the employee lifecycle, uphold our values, and enable our team to do their best work. You will play a critical part in setting the framework for Altana's global growth, overseeing a variety of People-related initiatives, such as on- and off-boarding, global benefits and compliance, and employee data management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee processes to support critical points in the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, training, job changes, and off boarding
• Ensure compliance with all federal and state requirements, including determining and implementing required training for employees and establishing reporting mechanisms
• Coordinate and manage the preparation of all required federal and state reports, including EEO-1, OFCCP, and VETS-4212
• Own Altana's global benefits portfolio across the US and UK by designing competitive benefits packages, managing open enrollment, communicating benefits details to employees
• Enable a safe, supportive, and mission-aligned work environment by creating and maintaining policies and procedures in partnership with People, IT and Legal teams
• Provide first-line support for employee questions about policies, training, benefits, or other Altana processes

Qualifications:

• Significant hands-on experience in a wide variety of HR responsibilities across benefits, policies, documentation, and/or first-line employee support
• Strong understanding of federal HR and employment laws, with direct experience managing federal compliance and reporting
• Strong understanding of US benefits (UK is a plus) with experience managing or directly supporting open enrollment processes, benchmarking benefits offerings, and crafting total rewards offerings that attract and retain employees
• Experience building from 0 to 1 with a bias toward action; you have created global policies and processes from scratch, as well as iterated for scale
• Experience managing the work of others, either directly as a people manager or indirectly as a project manager, in a complex work environment; comfortable with asynchronous work tools (e.g. Google Suite, Confluence, Slack, etc)
• Excellent communication skills; able to distill complex topics into a format that stakeholders can clearly understand
• Demonstrates good judgment in ambiguous or unclear situations, approaches others with empathy, and exhibits strong ethics