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Human Resources Manager

Cogent Talent Solutions

The HR Manager leads the company’s human resources functions and partners with leadership to support workforce planning, employee engagement, recruitment, retention, compliance, compensation, benefits, and professional development. This position establishes consistent HR practices across the organization while providing practical, confidential, and employee-focused support

The position is in-person in the Kansas City office, but supports all four offices

Travel is not expected to each office, but is encouraged to learn office culture in each office

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Responsibilities

Planning

  • senior leadership to align workforce planning, recruiting, retention, and employee-development strategies with company goals.
  • Establish HR processes, systems, and documentation that can scale with company growth
  • Provide leadership with
  • appropriate workforce
  • KPIs) and recommendations
  • Monitor workforce trends and recommend proactive staffing and retention strategies
  • Develops and implements departmental
  • budget
  • indicates
  • Coordinate pre-employment activities, onboarding, orientation, and

role

is responsible for both developing HR strategy and executing day-to-day HR operations.

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Recruitment & Onboarding

  • Develop recruiting strategies that support company growth and workforce needs.
  • Partner with hiring managers to develop job descriptions, coordinate candidate screening and interviews, and support consistent selection practices

required

  • employment documentation.
  • Manage employee offboarding, including exit interviews, documentation, benefits coordination, and internal notifications

Manage recruitment efforts through career fairs

Evaluate recruiting and onboarding effectiveness and recommend improvements

Employee Relations

  • Support a positive workplace culture.
  • Serve as a confidential and approachable resource for employees and managers
  • Provide guidance on employee-relations matters,
  • facilitate conflict resolution, respond to employee concerns, and coordinate fair and appropriately documented workplace investigations
  • Coach managers on communication, employee engagement, documentation, and consistent policy application.

Benefits

  • & Payroll
  • Administer or oversee payroll processes, including employee changes, deductions, reporting, and coordination with payroll providers
  • Lead employee health/retirement benefit programs through annual renewals and enrolling team members
  • Maintain accurate employee records within the HRIS and related systems
  • Conduct and maintain market

compensation

benchmarking.

Compliance & Policy

  • Monitor applicable employment-law developments and recommend policy or process changes.
  • Maintain legally required employee records, notices, and documentation.
  • Coordinate required reporting and compliance activities.
  • Support workplace safety, leave administration, accommodations, and workers’ compensation processes, as applicable.
  • Review the employee handbook regularly and recommend updates when business or legal requirements change
  • Performance

Training

  • & Development
  • Manage the company’s performance-management cycle, including goal setting, midyear discussions, year-end reviews, and related documentation.