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HR Generalist

City: St. Peters

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

The HR Generalist serves as a key business partner to manufacturing site leadership, supporting both hourly and salaried employees across the full employee lifecycle. This role provides hands-on HR support in employee relations, policy administration, compliance, talent initiatives, and workforce engagement while helping leaders build a positive, productive, and high-performing work environment. The HR Generalist works closely with employees and managers to resolve workplace issues, ensure consistent application of HR practices, and drive site-level people strategies that support business objectives.

Your responsibilities

Partner with site leadership, supervisors, and employees to provide day-to-day HR support for both hourly and salaried employee populations.
Lead and support employee relations activities, including investigations, conflict resolution, performance management, attendance concerns, corrective actions, and workplace issue resolution.
Provide guidance on HR policies, procedures, employment practices, and compliance requirements to ensure consistent and fair application across the site.
Track, document, and maintain employee relations cases, investigations, corrective actions, and other HR records while ensuring confidentiality and compliance.
Coordinate employee training, development programs, and compliance-related learning initiatives to support workforce capability and growth.
Partner with managers to support employee engagement, retention, recognition, succession planning, and workforce planning initiatives.
Prepare and analyze HR metrics and reports related to turnover, attendance, staffing, employee relations, and workforce trends to support business decision-making.
Assist with the implementation of HR programs, policy updates, organizational changes, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance employee and business outcomes.
Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing work environment by building strong relationships, coaching leaders, and serving as a trusted resource for employees at all levels.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field.
3-6 years of progressive Human Resources experience supporting employee relations, HR operations, and workforce initiatives.
Experience supporting hourly and salaried employee populations within manufacturing, distribution, logistics, or other high-volume operational environments strongly preferred.
Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws and HR compliance requirements.
SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification preferred.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with HRIS systems preferred.

The skills for success

Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, requisitions, and competing deadlines.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships across all levels of the organization.
Strong stakeholder management, consultative partnership, and customer service orientation.
High attention to detail, process discipline, and follow-through.
Ability to analyze recruiting data and market trends to support hiring decisions.
Adaptability and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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