Director Human Resources, Warehouse

Job purpose The HR Director serves as the senior HR business partner to assigned senior business leaders (for example: Warehouse Directors), translating business priorities into people strategy and execution. This role is responsible for advising leaders on organizational design, change, talent, engagement, and leadership effectiveness while ensuring alignment to RJW's broader business and HR strategy. Working closely with HRBPs and peer HR leaders, the HR Director helps shape culture, lead transformation, and drive enterprise HR initiatives that strengthen organizational performance and employee engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned senior leadership clients on HR strategy, organization effectiveness, and people-related priorities within their functions.
• Define the people strategy for assigned senior leadership clients, ensuring alignment to business goals and the broader HR strategy.
• Advise, coach, and support leaders to maximize performance, lead change effectively, and engage and develop talent within their organizations.
• Partner with peer HR Directors and HRBPs to help shape RJW's culture and values from a strategic enterprise perspective.
• Work closely with HRBPs to execute HR initiatives and ensure strategy is translated into practical field and functional action.
• Lead organizational change and transformation initiatives, helping ensure smooth implementation and minimal business disruption.
• Drive large-scale HR initiatives that support business objectives, improve employee engagement, and strengthen organizational capability.
• Provide strategic guidance on organizational design, team effectiveness, leadership capability, and workforce planning as needed to support assigned functions.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior line leaders on talent, engagement, change, and organizational health issues.

Success profile or performance standards

• Assigned senior leaders view this role as a credible strategic advisor on people, performance, and organizational issues.
• People strategies are clearly aligned to business direction and translated into actionable priorities.
• HRBPs are well aligned to strategic objectives and execute talent initiatives with consistency and clarity.
• Organizational change efforts are managed with discipline and support business continuity during transition.
• Large-scale HR initiatives strengthen employee engagement, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance.
• Culture and values are reinforced through visible partnership, leadership coaching, and enterprise collaboration.

Required qualifications

• 5+ or more years of experience as an HR Business Partner.
• 2 or more years of people leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders on HR strategy, organizational design, and change leadership.
• Strong capability in leadership coaching, talent strategy, and employee engagement.
• Experience leading large-scale HR initiatives in support of business goals.
• Ability to work across leaders, HRBPs, and HR peers to align strategy and execution.
• Strong judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence senior levels of the organization.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-site or operationally intensive environments.
• Experience leading enterprise or function-wide transformation initiatives.
• Experience in distribution, logistics, or other industrial settings.

Travel or schedule requirements

• Based at various RJW locations in the United States.
• Occasional travel across the RJW domestic portfolio

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Employer Rights:

This job description is intended to provide general information about the HR Director- Warehouse position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of HR Director – Warehouse nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.

Employment-At-Will:

It is the Company's policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate's, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.

Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.

Req Benefits: We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability, paid holidays, time off, retirement savings plan participation, and additional employee programs. Pay Transparency In order to support the Fair Compensation Strategy by the US Govt., HR Dept., clients are required to adhere to "Pay Transparency Law"; in the impacted states; that have mandated the employers to list the salary ranges in Job advertisements or postings for job opportunities and Job promotions.