Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

50% Travel Required

• Provide partnership, leadership, direction, counsel, and expertise to enable business leaders to manage a small to medium sized business.
• Provide oversight, supervision, and direction to support the delivery of HR programs and services designed to meet the unique needs of the customer group.
• Coach and mentor high potential and high professional employees as part of the organization’s focus on talent development.
• Partner with business clients and HR functional groups to build and implement workforce plan in achievement of overall business strategy, objectives, and goals.
• Coordinate with clients to ensure delivery of additional HR Resources, such as, Organization Development, Talent Management and Compensation in order to diagnose, develop and deliver timely, comprehensive and relevant solutions to the client.
• Offer thought and policy leadership on human resource issues to clients.
• Work and communicate effectively across HR and the client organization.
• Assist in building a strong organizational culture.
• Build HR capabilities within client organization.
• Maintain compliance with all pertinent HR-related laws and regulations.
• Contribute to enterprise initiatives and projects.
• Travel up to 50%.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience working in a strategic HRBP capacity in a multi-site environment
• Operations experience preferred but not required
• Ability to influence senior leaders and serve as a change agent
• Strong business sense with extensive knowledge of the business, understanding of market trends, competition, company policies/procedures & culture.
• Proven strategic agility and thinking; can initiate and operationalize HR strategies linked to the overall business strategy.
• Broad Human Resources expertise including organizational behavior, change management, business planning, policy implementation and communication.
• Ability to build partnerships with leaders at all levels
• Strong conflict resolution, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

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