Overview

Tribune Publishing, one of the country’s leading multimedia companies, is seeking a Sr Director, Human Resources to join our team.  At Tribune Publishing we continue to drive transformation and help power the future of digital news while promoting award-winning, culture-impacting journalism.  If you’d like to directly impact the success of our company, then this may be the job for you!

In this role, you will be the trusted HR Business Partner for Chicago Tribune and our Corporate functions including Finance, Marketing, Digital, Technology and Legal. The role is located in Chicago at the Prudential Plaza building across from Millennium Park and supports employees based in Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas.

The right person for this role has successfully coached business leaders and team members and is viewed as a credible and influential partner across their current organization.     

About Us…

Tribune Publishing (NASDAQ:TPCO) is a media company rooted in award-winning journalism. Headquartered in Chicago, Tribune Publishing operates local media businesses in eight markets with titles including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, Virginia’s Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot, The Morning Call of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and the Hartford Courant.

In addition to award-winning local media businesses, Tribune Publishing operates national and international brands such as Tribune Content Agencyand the Daily Meal, and is the majority owner of the product review website BestReviews.

Our brands are committed to informing, inspiring and engaging local communities. We create and distribute content across our media portfolio, offering integrated marketing, media, and business services to consumers and advertisers, including digital solutions and advertising opportunities.

Responsibilities

What You Will Do…

You will be strategically partner with the leadership team to provide guidance through coaching on the following topics.  

• Performance management – Responsible for administering, adapting and monitoring the Company’s Performance Achievement program including goal setting, feedback, corrective action, and performance reviews; ensures the alignment of employee performance to company objectives.
• Employee relations – Responsible for proactively anticipating, identifying and resolving employee relations issues; conducts investigations as necessary; recommends approaches and solutions for all employee-related situations.  Partners with the leadership team to provide counsel during reorganizations, restructuring, and downsizing workforce as needed.
• Leadership development – Analyzes decision-making capabilities related to the leadership team and provides recommendations to improve leadership, managerial and supervisory skills to proactively and effectively address workforce and employee issues.
• Talent assessment – Collaborates with leadership to assess talent, make recommendations for staff development, changes in roles and responsibilities, and continuously upgrade existing and new talent. 
• Total rewards – Collaborates with the Total Rewards team to ensure competitive and appropriate pay, incentives and total rewards packages are effective for varying levels of jobs at the local market level. 
• Employee engagement – Analyzes trends and metrics to develop action plans to increase overall employee engagement and retention.
• Talent acquisition – Partners with the Talent Acquisition team to help leaders to forecast, plan, and acquire key talent in support of the overall business strategies and operating plans.
• Compliance – Maintains knowledge of industry trends, benchmarks and applicable employment legislation and laws to maintain local market compliance. 

Qualifications

This Could be a Match if You Have…

• 10 years of progressive experience in Human Resources.
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, psychology or related field.
• Strong critical thinking skills to effectively advise leaders and others regarding company policies and procedures as well as legal requirements.
• Strong problem solving, negotiation, collaboration, presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to be influential and establish positive working relationships across the organization.
• Experience leading a team and managing for a high-performance culture.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and manage process change initiatives.
• Ability to execute both strategic and tactical priorities.
• Ability to develop presentations in PowerPoint, utilize Excel for reporting purposes and have experience with an HRIS system (Workday preferred) is a must.
• Must have the ability to travel to locations where Corporate function employees are located.