Senior Manager, People Operations

POSITION SUMMARY  Noble is seeking a strategic and people-first Senior Manager or Director of People Operations to lead and evolve our People function.  This role will be responsible for driving key initiatives across People strategy, employee experience, performance management, compliance, and organizational effectiveness.  Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you’ll play a pivotal role in building scalable systems that support our growing team, company, and values-driven culture. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Reasonable Accommodations Statement To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties outlined below. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Essential Responsibilities Lead and manage the People team, including internal team members and outsourced HR partners. Design and optimize scalable HR processes across the full employee life cycle: onboarding, offboarding, talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, performance, management, and compliance.  Partner with leadership to shape Noble’s People strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Oversee and lead the full-cycle talent acquisition function, ensuring effective sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring strategies that support growth and alignment with company core values. Collaborate with leaders across the organization to cultivate and continuously improve company culture, ensuring it reflects our values and supports an inclusive, high-performance environment. Oversee and refine compensation structures, benefits offerings, and total rewards strategies to attract and retain top talent. Own HR Information systems and tools; drive continuous improvement in automation, data integrity, and employee self-help and empowerment. Drive initiatives in employee engagement, manager up-skilling and enablement, and professional development. Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and HR best practices. Develop and track key HR metrics and dashboards; use data to guide decision-making and strategy. Provide outstanding customer service to employees expert coaching and guidance to leaders and managers on all people-related matters. Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law. Performs other duties as assigned. POSITION QUALIFICATIONS  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Superior interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate. Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality. Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field. A minimum of five to seven of human resource supervisory experience is preferred. SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly desired. COMPUTER SKILLS  Proficient with Google Suite or related software. Proficient with Microsoft tools, particularly Excel  Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS (ADP) and talent management systems (Workable). PHYSICAL DEMANDS   The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.  Also requires ability to lift up to 10 pounds. WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, smartphones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and scanners. Equal Opportunity Statement: Noble provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, or any other protected category in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Noble complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/eppac.pdf The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.