HR Supervisor, Shared Services - Military veterans preferred

2025-06-22
Sherwin Williams
Other

/yr

  full-time   part-time   employee   contract


Cleveland
Ohio
44109
United States

JOB DESCRIPTION

This position is responsible for the management of all Tier 1 advisory services provided by the HRSS Advisor team. This team provides comprehensive HR support and advisory services to employees, managers and HR Business Partners via phone, email and cases with a goal of first contact resolution in accordance with Service Level Agreements. Groups serviced include U.S and Canada employees and managers, including expatriates, third country nationals, international travelers, and HR business partners, as well as ex-employees, retirees and their beneficiaries. Additionally, this position will ensure that cross divisional standards are created and applied for all duties and that compliance activities are performed accurately and timely.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and
reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.


RESPONSIBILITIES

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

DAILY OPERATIONS & STAFFING

  • Manage the HR Shared Services Representative team in accordance with the department’s goals.

  • Ensure HR Shared Services Reps are knowledgeable, able to answer questions, and provide guidance related to all HR service areas and systems.

  • Ensure all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded

  • Create a work environment where customer service and efficiency are key focus areas.

  • Recruit and hire staff with the competencies to be successful in a shared services environment

  • Provide appropriate training and development opportunities for staff members.

  • Set performance goals for each employee and develop ways to monitor progress toward established goals.

  • Find ways to encourage collaboration and motivate team members to achieve team goals.

  • Assist with any tasks handled by the team as needed.

  • Act as the first point of escalation and overall subject matter expert for the HR Shared Services Advisors related to the operations, systems, policies and laws.

  • Resolve and follow up on all escalated issues.

  • When issues are found, determine why they occurred, take the appropriate steps to correct them, and establish processes to ensure they don’t happen in the future.

  • Identify other potential activities that can be added to shared services.

HR SERVICES PROCESS, SYSTEMS & ADMINISTRATION

  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of all HRSS operations, processes, systems and applicable policies and laws.

  • Lead the development of accurate procedural documentation by providing information and feedback that enable successful creation and delivery of training and procedures for HR Shared Services.

  • Standardize/harmonize processes across all tasks and ensure Standard Operating Procedures are created and kept updated.

  • Leverage SharePoint, Kaleidoscope, and shared drives to obtain information and coach HRBP’s, employees, and managers on how to find and use these resources.

  • Verify that staff is performing job duties within the various HR systems (ServiceNow, ORC, email, phones, etc.) as directed.

  • Ensure all team members understand process improvement concepts and make appropriate updates or partner with appropriate process improvement teams to implement necessary changes to processes

OFF-BOARDING & CLOUD ADMINISTRATION

  • Partner with the retirement team and manage Executive retirement initiations and process all retirements in the HR Cloud and timekeeping system

  • Manage the HR Advisor team to ensure retirement counseling conversations, documentation, and processes are maintained and followed

  • Ensure that all retirements are processed accurately and timely

  • Generate, track and enter individual or group mutual agreement and Sep Plan separation agreements

  • Ensure separation templates and processes are kept up-to-date and are accurate

  • Work with external vendor to identify and resolve issues related to sub pay

  • Provide subject matter expertise to support separation or retirement inquiries from employees, managers, HR business partners, Payroll, Employee Relations, legal, or other SW teams

  • Manage Advisor team through training and supporting areas of offboarding including standard terminations, Pay in Lieu terminations, time sensitive termination payouts and Retirements.

  • Partner with appropriate stakeholders to improve resources and process related to offboarding

  • Oversee the Unemployment process; ensure team members are trained, field resources are up to date and partner with appropriate stakeholders and vendor to identify process improvement opportunities

  • Utilize audit reports to assist in ensuring your team is performing processes and reviewing data in a timely manner

  • Monitor and verify the accuracy of data entry for all team members and ensure that counsel offered to customers is accurate and complete.


QUALIFICATIONS

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred:

  • Focus in Human Resources or business related field

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

  • 3+ years of experience in Human Resources.
  • Prior supervisory experience managing a service-oriented team through change.
  • Ability to manage own workload and assist other staff members with questions and issues.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to train new staff members.
  • Exceptional organizational skills with attention to detail, accuracy and ability to maintain confidential data.
  • Ability to analyze situations and interpret facts to make decisions and resolve problems.
  • Ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks with minimal supervision.
  • Strong computer skills.
  • Adaptability to change and desire and ability to make improvements and to continuously improve processes and systems.

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

  • Must be knowledgeable in computer systems (ex. Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Ability to provide exceptional customer service
  • Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
  • Ability to train and motivate staff
  • Ability to work with all levels of managements
  • Ability to multi-task

Preferred:

  • Systems knowledge of Oracle HR Cloud, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, ServiceNow, OnBase and Kronos UKG

Travel: 10%


EMPLOYER DESCRIPTION

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible

At Sherwin-Williams, part of our mission is to help our employees and their families live healthier, save smarter and feel better. This starts with a wide range of world-class benefits designed for you. From retirement to health care, from total well-being to your daily commute—it matters to us. A general description of benefits offered can be found at http://www.myswbenefits.com/. Click on “Candidates” to view benefit offerings that you may be eligible for if you are hired as a Sherwin-Williams employee.

Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case and will impact where actual compensation may fall within the stated wage range. The wage range listed for this role takes into account the wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The wage range, other compensation, and benefits information listed is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws including with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act where applicable.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.? All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Sherwin-Williams requests state and local employment services delivery systems to provide priority referral of Protected Veterans.

Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.