We are Aaron’s - an industry leader in the sales and lease-to-own retail industry known for quality brand names and superior customer service. We provide our team members the opportunity to reach their full potential in a team-oriented, high-energy, recognition-based environment with competitive pay and benefits. This is much more than a job – it is a career with purpose.
Summary
The VP, Human Resources is responsible for leading the human resources function of the company and serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on all aspects of human resources management.
Responsible for fostering a people centric environment by developing deep relationships with business leaders to thoroughly understand business needs and priorities and translating them into executable people strategies focused on acquiring, onboarding and retaining top talent. Also responsible for ensuring that human resources policies are updated, fair and consistently applied.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Lead the human resources function to better support the achievement of the business mission and strategic imperatives of the company. This is accomplished by working closely with senior leaders to implement and oversee programs for recruitment, retention, talent assessment, succession, talent development, total rewards, and work force planning.
- Talent Management: Oversee talent acquisition, development, talent assessment, and succession to build future leadership within the organization, and to enable top-performing teams throughout the company.
- Total Rewards: Oversee the company’s compensation and benefit plans, ensuring that they support the company’s business objectives, and are competitive in the peer marketplace, cost-effective, compliance with applicable laws and meet the needs of team members.
- Talent Attraction and Acquisition: Responsible for overseeing the outsourced team that leads talent attraction and lead flow to fill current and expected roles across the business and remains keenly focused on effectively and efficiently delivering qualified applicant flow for Aaron’s store locations across the US and Canada.
- HR Operations: Oversee and supervise human resource professionals responsible for all employee relations matters and ensure the execution and implementation of the overall strategy and vision for internal development, performance management, and team member engagement across the company.
- Team Member Engagement: Innovate and lead company-wide initiatives that continuously improve team member engagement and contribute to the company’s reputation as an attractive environment for which to work and build a career.
- Payroll: Oversee the human resources professionals responsible for payroll to ensure that team member payments and reporting to the business are accurate and timely.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Oversee companywide efforts focused on fostering a more inclusive culture and driving greater diversity in the company’s workforce.
Education & Experience
- Strategic Leadership: Brings at least 10 years of experience in people leadership roles including HR roles or HR-adjacent roles. Relevant Industry Experience: Has significant experience in complex, multi-unit businesses that include complex technology requirements, call center operations, logistical operations, and supply chain challenges; some past exposure to leading HR in a retail environment is considered a plus.
- Functional Breadth: Experience in a wide range of human resources issues including recruiting, retention, employee relations, broader talent management, total rewards, and culture shaping.
- Business and Legal Acumen: Possesses a solid grasp of financial and corporate goals and proactively demonstrates the role the human resources function can play in achieving corporate objectives and cultural change. Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment where analytical skills and agility are equally important. Has a working knowledge of workplace legal requirements and history of working within the complexities of employment laws across multiple jurisdictions.
- Trusted Advisor: Experience serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership in a large organization; brings very strong stakeholder management skills and is astute at interfacing effectively across all levels of the organization, building consensus, and influencing appropriately.
- Transformation Experience: Hands-on experience leading and driving organization transformation in a complex, growth-oriented consumer- or guest-focused company.
Requires Skills
Put Customers First
- Understand and Shape Customer Needs
- Create Distinctive Value for Customers
- Build Deep Customer Relationships
Inspire & Influence
- Collaborate to Determine Meaning and Purpose
- Engage and Energize the Organization
- Lead Through Influence
Build Talent & Teams
- Develop and Motivate Talent
- Build and Coach Productive Teams
- Strengthen Organizational Capability
Drive for Results
- Drive Execution
- Continuously Improve the Core
- Reallocate Resources as Needed
- Strong Communicator : Excellent communication skills and an ability to inspire confidence and relate well to people at all levels of the organization as an informed and effective spokesperson for the company.
- Results Driven : Track record of success driving results in a complex, large-scale environment with a distributed workforce. Brings a strong desire to achieve or exceed stretch goals in a collaborative fashion.
- Sterling Values : Highly credible with an impeccable reputation for honesty and integrity.
Aaron’s Total Rewards
Benefits
Our team members are our greatest asset. As an expression of our appreciation, Aaron’s is proud to offer outstanding career training, competitive performance incentives, excellent advancement opportunities, and a distinctive benefits package which includes:
- Sundays off
- Employee assistance program
- Employee purchase program with exclusive discounts
- Physical and financial well-being programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Business Resource Groups
- 401(k) plan with contribution matching
- Paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, and holidays
- Life and disability insurance
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Paid paternal leave
- Stock purchase plans
- Pay on Demand
- Benefits vary based on full- and part-time employment status.
Note that the pay range provided above is the lowest to highest rate we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.
About Aaron’s
At Aaron’s we offer sales and lease-to-ownership of specialty items including furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances, and accessories throughout the United States and Canada. Our customers shop at Aaron’s for the same reason you should choose us for the next step in your career – our ability to positively influence people’s lives. If you are looking for a company with the passion and dedication to make a difference in the lives of customers and team members alike, join us today.
Aaron’s is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, celebrates our team members’ differences, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, pregnancy, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, military duty, gender expression, genetic information, or any other protected class. Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact hrsupport@aarons.com.
Aaron’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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