Dressbarn, a division of Ascena Retail Group, Inc. offers casual career and special occasion fashion apparel and accessories at value prices for women ages 35-55, operating approximately 830 stores in 47 states. Ascena Retail Group Inc, (NASDAQ - ASNA), is a leading national specialty retailer of apparel for women and tween girls, operating, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, dressbarn, maurices and Justice brands. The Company operates through its subsidiaries nearly 2,500 stores throughout the United States and Canada, with revenues of over $2.8 billion.

At dressbarn, we know talented people are our greatest asset. In return for your talent and hard work, we also offer career development, excellent benefits, as well as a competitive compensation package and generous merchandise discounts.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a member of the dressbarn Human Resources Team at the Store Support Center (SSC) in Suffern, NY.  The HR Manager partners with his/her client(s) to understand strategies, analyze business needs, and develop and/or promote HR initiatives to advance the strategic goals of the business.  In this role, you will perform as a generalist and have responsibilities including:

• Provide effective coaching and counseling and resolution of HR issues and ensure fair and consistent practices in the organization. Provide direction to management on resolving issues and building a high performing team. Coach management on techniques for handling sensitive associate issues. Provide effective coaching, counseling and progressive disciplinary strategies on all AR issues, up to and including terminations.
• Manage implementation, administration and operation of functional Human Resources services. Provide service and results as it pertains to HR core functional knowledge of associate relations, recruitment, performance management, compensation, benefits, and training and development. Develop strategies and tactics to address performance problems and opportunities in the organization. Drive compensation solutions.
• Partner with business to develop broad recruitment strategies. Coach managers on interviewing techniques. Initiate succession planning. On-Board new hires. Coach and develop associates.
• Talent Development: Manage performance management and merit review cycle. Drive talent review and succession planning.
• Program planning: Analyze existing programs and processes. Benchmark best practices and make recommendations. Implement new ideas and create opportunities to educate the field.

Successful candidates will have:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of HR generalist experience.  Previous retail experience preferred.
• Ability to live dressbarn BELIEVE values of Building relationships, Earning trust, Leading with encouragement, Igniting our business, Elevating standards, Valuing our Associates and Excelling in service.
• Demonstrated proficiency Human Resource functional delivery
• Strong consultative service skills
• Strong management skills
• Strong influence, interpersonal, communication, problem solving, follow-up and creative solution generation skills.
• General business acumen and analytical skills
• Must be organized, detail oriented, able to work independently and handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality
• Strong computer skills with MS Office and HRIS

The list of position responsibilities herein is not intended to be all inclusive and may include additional responsibilities from time to time.