Belk

Retail

HumanResourceLead

Meridian, Mississippi, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Human Resource Lead at Belk. Skills: hiring, training, retention, scheduling, customer experience. Drives sales and delivers a positive customer experience by providing a best-in-class associate experience for all store associates. This role leads hiring, training, and retention activities, while building effective weekly schedules. The Human Resources Lead has a passion for people and works collaboratively with store leaders to ensure associate success and achieve store objectives.”

What You'll Achieve.

Achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of key metrics.

Industry & Context.

Retail
Problems you'll solve

lead generation; A/B testing; funnel optimization; account expansion; objection handling; shortage control; minimize risk

Eligibility Requirements

Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers. Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 40 lbs.

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

1+ years of Retail Leadership/HR Management experience and a commitment to customer service excellence. Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers. Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 40 lbs.

What You'll Do.

Drives sales and delivers a positive customer experience by providing a best-in-class associate experience for all store associates.

This role leads hiring, training, and retention activities, while building effective weekly schedules.

The Human Resources Lead has a passion for people and works collaboratively with store leaders to ensure associate success and achieve store objectives.

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Works collaboratively with store leaders to ensure associate success and achieve store objectives. Participate in weekly leadership workload planning meetings.

Communication Scope

recruiting; sourcing candidates; executive presentations; proposal writing; demo delivery; copywriting; cold calling

Process & Methodology

workload planning

Full Job Description

The Human Resources Lead drives sales and delivers a positive customer experience by providing a best-in-class associate experience for all store associates. This role leads hiring, training, and retention activities, while building effective weekly schedules. The Human Resources Lead has a passion for people and works collaboratively with store leaders to ensure associate success and achieve store objectives. This is an hourly position, with monthly bonus eligibility. **What you will do** * Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability, and initiative in achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of key metrics. * Fill open positions timely by communicating openings, recruiting and sourcing candidates, reviewing applications, scheduling interviews, initiating background checks, and completing the hiring process. Create a positive candidate experience by providing frequent communication and support throughout each stage. * Conduct engaging onboarding experience, ensuring structured onboarding completion to prepare new hires to deliver service, selling, and operational excellence. Ensure positive new hire experience by confirming associate understanding of their role, company policies, benefits, and scheduling, communication, and learning platforms. * Lead store retention and engagement activities and champion continuous learning initiatives. Foster a positive store culture by building meaningful team connections, celebrating individual and team achievements, and recognizing associate contributions and value. * Maintain associate data integrity across company systems and associate files, ensuring accurate, up-to-date information for record compliance, staffing, benefits, scheduling, payroll, and reporting. * Complete effective schedules that align with talent, traffic, and business needs, while reviewing associate availability and time-off requests with store leaders. Audit associate timecards for accuracy and track attendance daily. * Particip

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