People Partner Generalist, Fulfillment Centers & Logistics

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Weee!</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weee! is the largest and fastest-growing ethnic e-grocer in the United States, operating in one of the largest underserved categories in retail with affordable access to exciting ethnic food. By partnering with local suppliers, redesigning the value chain and leveraging social buying, Weee! is reshaping the grocery business entirely. You can read more about us on </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/weee-softbank-grocery-delivery-425-million-series-e-4-billion-valuation-2022-2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Business Insider</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/e-grocer-weee-raises-425-million-funding-round-led-by-softbank-2022-02-28/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reuters</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/28/weee-delivers-second-big-funding-round-in-a-year-this-time-backed-by-softbank/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TechCrunch</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weee! is headquartered in Fremont, CA, and is currently available coast to coast with exceptional growth (5x YoY) across geographies, categories and ethnicities. We have raised $800M+ in funding to date from leading investors including <a href="https://visionfund.com/portfolio" target="_blank">Softbank Vision Funds</a>, </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/weee-35-million-raise-from-dst/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DST</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Blackstone, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Ventures, Goodwater Capital, XVC and iFly. The opportunity now is to join a rocketship as we prepare for the next stage of growth, and an eventual public listing.</span></p></div><p><strong>This role is onsite 5 days a week in Houston, TX</strong></p> <p>This role partners closely with site leadership to deliver strong frontline people support.&nbsp; This role ensures smooth day to day HR execution, high engagement and retention, effective employee relations, and full compliance while helping the operation scale through growth and change.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Manage the employee lifecycle for Fulfillment Center, Logistics, and Regional employees from onboarding through offboarding, including orientation, performance management, corrective action, and terminations.</li> <li>Serve as the on-site People Partner Generalist for TX sites with regional support across both locations providing daily HR support across benefits, payroll, attendance, policies, compliance, and employee relations.</li> <li>Support implementation of corporate-wide policies, procedures, systems, and initiatives, including change management efforts such as WMS implementation and operational growth initiatives.</li> <li>Provide coaching, direction, and counsel to frontline managers and supervisors to proactively anticipate, prevent, and resolve a wide range of HR issues; independently lead investigations and employee relations cases and escalate as needed to the Senior Manager, Employee Relations.</li> <li>Manage workers’ compensation cases from incident through resolution in partnership with vendors, insurers, and the Insurance &amp; Risk Manager.</li> <li>Partner with site leadership to drive employee engagement and retention initiatives for frontline teams and reinforce leadership expectations around fair and consistent people management.</li> <li>Identify trends in employee relations, attendance, safety, and turnover; proactively assess risk and recommend practical, business-aligned solutions.</li> <li>Deliver, coordinate, and track required training to ensure compliance with local, state, OSHA, and company requirements; provide individual and group training on HR policies, procedures, performance management, and leadership capability.</li> <li>Support progr