Fedrigoni Special Papers North America, headquartered in Cohoes, NY, and part of the Fedrigoni Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialty papers and self-adhesive materials, brings together over 130 years of Italian craftsmanship and a bold North American growth agenda.
Your Role in the Transformation
As HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will be based at the Cohoes site and report to the Regional HRBP Americas, who is also present on-site. You will be part of a collaborative HR team that includes a dedicated resource for the hourly and union workforce, allowing you to focus on the white-collar and supervisory population.
Working hand-in-hand with office and functional managers to build a stronger performance culture, modernize HR practices, and unlock the full potential of the team. With the support of your on-site HR colleagues, you will have the bandwidth to go deep: building real relationships with employees, coaching supervisors, and creating the programs and processes this team needs to thrive.
Responsibilities
Partnership with Supervisors & People Leadership
- Coach and develop supervisors to handle day-to-day people situations with confidence.
- Be a visible, accessible presence on-site; invest time understanding how teams work and what drives them.
- Navigate a workforce with deep institutional tenure, bringing empathy and credibility to change management efforts.
Performance Culture & Organizational Development
- Drive the deployment of a consistent performance review process, building the framework, training managers, and ensuring follow-through.
- Address performance issues proactively: guide supervisors through conversations, documentation, PIPs, and, where necessary, terminations.
- Identify talent development needs and partner with the broader HR network to build learning initiatives suited to the site’s growth agenda.
Process Creation & HR Infrastructure
- Audit existing HR practices and identify gaps then build, document, and implement processes that are fit for a growing, performance-driven organization.
- Design and launch key people programs from scratch
- Develop and manage an incentive and variable pay framework in partnership with leadership and the C&B function.
- Establish HR reporting cadences and provide regular people metrics and insights to site leadership.
Employee Relations & Engagement
- Serve as the HR point of contact for all white-collar and supervisory employees, handling relations matters, conflict resolution, and day-to-day guidance.
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for office and professional roles: from job brief through offer and onboarding.
- Lead onboarding processes to ensure a consistent, professional employee experience.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in HR or related field
- Builder’s mindset: Energized by the opportunity to create structure where little exists
- Change agent
- Supervisor coach
- Process & program design: Experience building HR programs
- Cross-cultural agility: Comfortable navigating a European parent company context
