What are the responsibilities and job description for the Human Resources Manager position at Highwoods Properties?
As a Highwoods HR Manager, you'll join a dynamic team of HR professionals dedicated to providing exceptional service, support, and encouragement to our coworkers. By fostering a positive and inclusive workplace, you'll empower our employees to deliver outstanding service to our customers. We're looking for someone who is passionate about enhancing the employee experience and building a strong, supportive community within our diverse workforce.
Why Join Us?
At Highwoods, we’re more than just a commercial real estate company—we’re in the business of creating remarkable workplaces that inspire and support growth, community, and connection. Our mission is to build environments and experiences that empower our teammates and customers to achieve more together. Through a blend of innovation, care, and commitment to quality, we deliver exceptional spaces that are worth the commute, add value to our customers, and positively impact our communities.
What Sets Us Apart
As part of the Highwoods team, you’re not just taking on a job; you’re joining a culture that values integrity, collaboration, and growth. We believe our culture is the key to success in the dynamic world of commercial real estate. Every member of our team plays a role in defining and upholding this culture—it's not just words on a page, but a way of working and living every day.
When you join Highwoods, you’ll bring your unique skills, experiences, and values to life through our shared mission. Together, we create a thriving workplace where every teammate has the support and opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities
This job operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, scanners, and video conferencing.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Work is of a general office nature; while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and see; prolonged periods of sitting / standing at a desk and working on a computer; required to use arms and hands to reach and handle; typing on computer keyboard and using phone required. Ability to read, understand, and to communicate information and ideas clearly in writing and orally is required. May occasionally need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch; and lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Why Join Us?
At Highwoods, we’re more than just a commercial real estate company—we’re in the business of creating remarkable workplaces that inspire and support growth, community, and connection. Our mission is to build environments and experiences that empower our teammates and customers to achieve more together. Through a blend of innovation, care, and commitment to quality, we deliver exceptional spaces that are worth the commute, add value to our customers, and positively impact our communities.
What Sets Us Apart
As part of the Highwoods team, you’re not just taking on a job; you’re joining a culture that values integrity, collaboration, and growth. We believe our culture is the key to success in the dynamic world of commercial real estate. Every member of our team plays a role in defining and upholding this culture—it's not just words on a page, but a way of working and living every day.
When you join Highwoods, you’ll bring your unique skills, experiences, and values to life through our shared mission. Together, we create a thriving workplace where every teammate has the support and opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor HR generalists, offering them opportunities for ongoing professional development
- Provide guidance and support to management on HR best practices
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and employee retention strategies
- Manage performance appraisal system to drive employee growth and productivity
- Partner with the department director to oversee employee relations, conflict resolution, and disciplinary actions
- Maintain full knowledge of all benefit plans and responds to all benefit plan/program inquiries
- Lead the process of benefits administration to include change reporting and communicating benefits information to employees
- Lead the annual benefits Open Enrollment process
- Coordinate FMLA and short/long term disability claims with 3rd party leave administrator
- Partner with the payroll department for HR and benefits-related audits, including 401(k)
- Champion the company’s wellbeing efforts by co-leading the Highwoods Wellbeing program, ultimately serving as the steering committee chairperson
- Oversee compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance
- Support the reporting and analytics function in HR by producing various scheduled and ad-hoc workforce reports, scrubbing data, completing analysis and presenting findings
- Work with the department director to prepare analytics to share with senior management
- Assist Finance and Accounting with reporting used for payroll, forecasting and compliance
- Provide support and maintenance for the HRIS system including researching and resolving system problems and maintaining proper security profiles for each employee
- Serve as technical resource for system upgrades, enhancements and implementations to ensure internal processes are not compromised
- Thorough knowledge of labor laws, HR practices, and compliance requirements
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation and problem-solving skills
- Organized, with strong time management skills and proven ability to juggle and reprioritize or delegate based on business demands and priorities
- Must possess strong ethical standards regarding the handling of the highest level of confidential, sensitive information
- Periodic regional travel required
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field with a minimum of eight years of HR experience required
- Proven experience as an HR Manager or in a senior HR role highly desired
- Human Resources certification a plus
- Proficiency in HR systems and Microsoft Office Suite
This job operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, scanners, and video conferencing.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Work is of a general office nature; while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and see; prolonged periods of sitting / standing at a desk and working on a computer; required to use arms and hands to reach and handle; typing on computer keyboard and using phone required. Ability to read, understand, and to communicate information and ideas clearly in writing and orally is required. May occasionally need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch; and lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
