Human Resource Generalist
Job Overview
The HR Generalist will provide a full range of day-to-day and project HR support. This role also serves as a primary point of contact to a large Consumer Services organization within Fortune Brands Innovations, for general HR questions and tactical HR support. This role provides operational support in the areas of recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, communication, engagement and HR policies and procedures.
At FBIN, we value individuals who can Think Fast, applying insights with care to make thoughtful, timely decisions; Work It Together, creating a culture of trust and mutual respect across diverse teams; and Make the Hard Call, balancing courage and empathy to navigate complex challenges with clarity and compassion.
Position location: This position will work on a hybrid schedule at our Deerfield, IL campus Tuesdays - Thursdays and primarily remotely on Monday and Fridays.
Effective fall-2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant workspaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.
What you'll be doing:
- Acts as a primary contact and support to Fortune Brands Innovations Consumer Services associates for HR questions and partners or escalates issues to corresponding HR Business Partner.
- Responsible for onboarding guidance and execution to ensure successful onboarding to Fortune Brands Innovations for all new hires.
- Supports the performance management process for Consumer Services and broadly across Fortune Brands Innovations.
- Drafts communications, announcements and finds creative ways to deploy important talent messages.
- Supports Consumer Services in policy creation and application, ensuring consistency and fairness in approach.
- Supports the HR Business Partner and HR Manager in day-to-day HR support which may include answering employee questions, partnering with people services and employee relations, conducting exit interviews, etc.
- Supports regular HR processes such as merit and bonus, quarterly discretionary equity process, employee engagement survey, etc.
- Supports processing employee changes in HR systems through partnering with various HR team members to execute in various HR systems.
- Supports team building sessions through Predictive Index facilitation, New Leader Assimilation support, team summits.
- Manages projects as part of the broader HR transformation including process mapping, gathering documents, data and information.
- Manages and participates in other HR and ad hoc projects.