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Overview:
Driven Brands™, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is the parent company of some of North America’s leading automotive aftermarket brands including Take 5 Oil Change, Meineke Car Care Centers, Automotive Training Institute, Maaco, CARSTAR, ABRA, Uniban, Car Wash US, FIX Automotive, 1-800-Radiator & A/C and PH Vitres d’Autos. Driven Driven Brands has more than 4,000 centers across 15 countries, and combined, all businesses generate approximately $3.8 billion in system-wide sales and service over 50 million vehicles annually.
Driven Brands is the quintessential growth company, more than tripling its revenues, brands, employees, and profits over the past six years. The primary focuses of the company are growing its franchisee’s profitability, all brands’ unit count and creating opportunities for its employees, franchisees, and investors. Our culture of meritocracy inspires high performance and innovation among our employees. We enable our employees and franchisees to go further, faster— generating growth for our franchisees’ businesses and our employees’ careers. For more information, visit drivenbrands.com.
The Human Resources Business Partner for M&A will lead HR due diligence and integration planning and execution efforts for Driven Brands acquisitions. This role will partner with the internal HR functional partners, business line HR business Partners, Corporate Development integration leaders, and acquired leadership teams through all phases of a M&A project. This role will support acquisitions across all geographies and business lines. This role will excel at being a self-starter, problem solver, possesses a high degree of judgment and capability of working collaboratively on often highly ambiguous matters.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned HR leader, with experience across multiple HR functions as well as geographies. They have a passion for owning and driving process and operational improvement, and a track record of thinking creatively to deliver innovations on behalf of customers.
The right candidate will possess a hybrid program/project management background with demonstrated experience leading simultaneous initiatives as well as extensive experience across the breadth of Human Resources workstreams. Our team works in a fast-paced environment and is seeking someone who thrives working on high-profile projects.
Responsibilities:
- Help to continuously improve the M&A program and processes at Driven Brands by identifying ways to improve the employee and customer experience – via automation, simplification, and overall process improvement; partnering cross-functionally to influence and implement change.
- Provide hands-on support and project management in all HR matters for M&A deals from due diligence through integration phases and ultimately through transition to business HR teams.
- Partner with key HR subject matter experts to deliver solutions for integration issues such as: immigration, recruiting, benefits, compensation, payroll, time and attendance, retirement plans, stock/equity, HR compliance, employee relations, organization design, diversity & inclusion, talent management, and performance management.
- Drive appropriate M&A due diligence and integration activities, including job leveling together with other relevant HR functions.
- Provide excellent customer service to all stakeholders by helping to resolve any issues/questions.
- Ensure best practices and lessons learned are documented and communicated within the internal HR teams.
- Travel as needed (frequency will vary)
Qualifications:
- Experience as a Project or Program Manager in Human Resources
- Experience in merger & acquisition integrations preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Master’s degree (MBA or MA HR) preferred
- Proficiency in project planning methodologies and tools, ability to scale tools (e.g. excel-based) to automated solutions (e.g. project management tools with automated dependency management)
- Strong business acumen and ability to work effectively across business lines and varying cultures.
- Experience multi-tasking and handling various projects simultaneously to drive timely results
- Broad experience and leadership across Human Resources specialist areas including talent acquisition, compensation & benefits, HR compliance, HRIS/HR services, payroll, employee relations, organization design/development, talent and performance management
- Demonstrated expertise in process management
- Proven results leading process improvement efforts
- Excellent attention to detail and relentless commitment to follow-through
- Ability to prioritize effectively and facilitate action across remote groups
- Ability to convey recommendations and ideas in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively with a wide variety of audiences – technical and business clients, HR functions, and all levels of employees
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