Acuity Brands, Inc

Human Resources Senior Manager

Acuity Brands, Inc$85K — $154K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred in HR or related field
  • HR certification preferred (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR, or GPHR)
  • 5-7 years of progressive HR experience with 2-3 years as a business partner or HR manager
  • Experience in technology-focused and high-growth/start-up environments
  • Proficient in employee relations, performance management, and HR program delivery
  • Strong experience with HR data management and HRIS technologies
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

Responsibilities

  • Partner with HR Strategic Advisor to align and execute talent strategies
  • Coach leaders across HR programs like performance management and career development
  • Support onboarding and employee engagement initiatives
  • Ensure consistent implementation of HR policies and processes
  • Deliver and adapt HR programs to corporate functions
  • Guide organizational changes and workforce planning
  • Lead reporting and data analysis to understand trends within the business

Benefits

  • Generous health care, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401K benefits
  • Commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role
  • Supportive hybrid work model with 1-2 days on-site
  • Opportunity for continuous professional development and training
Full Job Description
Work location:
  • This position requires on-site presence in Boulder, CO, following a hybrid work model.


Job Summary

The Senior HR Business Partner supporting our Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS) business serves as a strategic, business first advisor to senior leaders and people managers within a fast paced, technology driven environment. With strong financial acumen and a commercial mindset, this role approaches HR as a lever for business performance-bringing depth of expertise in critical specialty areas such as talent management and/or compensation to inform leadership decisions, organizational design, and workforce strategy.

Partnering closely with senior leaders across technology, and solutions architecture, the HRBP translates AIS business priorities into scalable people strategies. This role plays a key part in organizational design and development, ensuring alignment between structure, capabilities, and growth objectives while enabling effective talent management across the enterprise.

Operating effectively in a dynamic, high growth context, the HRBP drives organizational effectiveness, strengthens leadership capability, and supports the evolution of teams as AIS continues to scale. Through close partnership with the business and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), the HRBP ensures consistent execution of HR programs, delivers data driven insights, and maintains strong accountability for HR processes and data integrity to support both business outcomes and enterprise HR objectives.

This hybrid role will be based in the Broomfield, Co area and is expected to be in office approximately 1 - 2 days per week.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
• Partner with the HR Strategic Advisor (Director) to ensure alignment and effective execution of talent strategies and organizational design initiatives within assigned corporate functions.
• Partner & coach leaders across a broad set of HR programs and processes, including but not limited to performance management, associate relations, organization design & effectiveness, and career development.
• Support day-to-day HR needs including onboarding, employee engagement, and handling sensitive employee situations.
• Ensure consistent implementation of HR policies, programs, and processes across assigned business functions.
• Deliver and adapt enterprise HR programs (performance management, compensation cycles, career development, talent reviews, learning and development) to the corporate business functions.
• Support the HR Strategic Advisor (Director) partnering on business strategy and translation and execution within the business.
• Act as the connector between managers and HR Centers of Excellence (Talent, Total Rewards, Associate Relations/Labor Relations, HR Operations, Benefits, etc.), ensuring programs are both consistent and locally relevant.
• Provide actionable feedback to HR Centers of Excellence on HR programs and policies, partnering with business leaders and HRBPs to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain accurate HR data and ensure HR processes are executed consistently to deliver on business and HR objectives.
• Provide guidance on organizational changes, role design, and workforce planning.
• Lead and participate in strategic talent initiatives, in alignment with the Strategic Advisors and broader HR strategy.
• Lead and/or leverage consistent reporting cadence, exercising data analysis to understand trends or themes across the business.
• Champion Acuity's culture and values, ensuring managers embed them in daily leadership practices.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Human Resources or a related field preferred.
• HR certification preferred (e.g. SHRM-CP, PHR, or GPHR).
• 5-7 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 2-3 years in a business partner or HR manager role, including experience supporting technology focused and/or high growth, start up environments.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model, with 2 days per week onsite in our Broomfield, CO office.
• Travel for business as needed.
• Strong experience coaching, influencing and partnering with people managers.
• Proficiency in employee relations, performance management, and HR program delivery.
• Proficient in managing and manipulating HR data, with experience working with HR information systems (HRIS) and related technologies.
• Ability to balance hands-on operational support with program execution.
• Ability to exercise judgement and sophisticated decision making.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong organization & project management skills.

The range for this position is $85,700.00 to $154,300.00 USD. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant's experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

About Acuity Brands, Inc

Acuity Brands, Inc. is a lighting and building management firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. It currently has about 12,000 employees and recorded net sales of $3.5 billion for fiscal year 2020. The company designs, produces, and distributes lighting fixtures, controls, and related products and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. Its lighting and building management solutions are marketed under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Aculux, American Electric Lighting, and others. Acuity Brands is committed to sustainability and energy efficiency, and offers a range of products that meet or exceed industry standards for energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Learn more about Acuity Brands, Inc
Size
13,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$250.9 million
Founded
1898
5 Year Trend
+2.7%
Revenue
$3.2 billion
NASDAQ

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