Vice President - Field Human Resources, PTL

Position Summary:
This position is a key member of the HR Leadership team, partnering with leaders in Penske Truck Leasing (PTL) Field Operations to create talent strategies that drive the business forward.

The Vice President, Field Human Resources will design and operationalize a comprehensive plan to deploy the Enterprise HR Strategy across the field organization, ensuring consistent standards, strong talent practices, and full compliance. This leader will create a clear, measurable roadmap for implementation, prioritize initiatives that close capability and performance gaps in field locations, and translate enterprise programs into practical, location-level solutions. The role requires building credibility with operators, driving manager capability, and influencing outcomes through a matrixed HR team while maintaining a focus on talent, standards, consistency, and regulatory compliance.

In addition, this leader must partner closely with leaders from labor relations, talent development, staffing, and total rewards to ensure HR strategies are executed effectively in the field and are fully aligned with workforce realities. The role will also collaborate with functional leadership teams—including finance, maintenance, rental, and sales—to align priorities, integrate people-related initiatives, and ensure HR support is connected to operational needs and business performance.

Qualified candidates for this role will have at least 12 years of progressive multi-site HR experience, 7 years of team leadership, and strong communication and influencing skills. This position will be based out of Penske’s corporate office located in Reading, PA, 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. This is an office first position at least 4 days in office per week. This role will require travel up to 50%.

Major Responsibilities
• Translate the Enterprise HR Strategy into a practical, measurable deployment plan for the field organization. 
• Establish and maintain consistent HR standards, policies and practices across field locations. 
• Lead a matrixed HR team (direct and dotted-line) responsible for talent acquisition, development, performance management, employee relations and compliance in the field. 
• Partner with Senior Vice Presidents and Area Vice Presidents to build leadership capability, strengthen frontline coaching and improve team performance. 
• Drive talent programs: workforce planning, succession planning, high-potential identification, and targeted development initiatives. 
• Ensure compliance with federal, state and local employment laws and enterprise policies; prepare for and respond to audits and investigations. 
• Implement metrics, dashboards and reporting to measure deployment progress, talent outcomes and compliance performance. 
• Lead change management for HR program rollouts and serve as an advisor on organizational design and people-related risks. 
• Manage HR resources and budgets for field programs; recruit, coach and develop HR business partners.
• Partner with Labor Relations to support collective bargaining strategy, manage grievance processes, and ensure consistent application of labor agreements in the field. 
• Collaborate closely with Total Rewards to align compensation structures, incentive plans and benefits design initiatives with field roles and market realities. 
• Work with the Staffing teams to align sourcing and hiring strategies, reduce time-to-fill for critical roles and support scalable onboarding for field hires. 
• Partner with the Talent Development team to ensure field needs are reflected in enterprise solutions and that rollouts are smooth and locally executable.
• Other duties and tasks assigned by supervisor
 

Qualifications

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field; advanced degree preferred. 
• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, including multi-site field/operations environments required
• 7 + years leading a team required
• HR Certifications preferred
• Proven track record leading and developing matrixed HR teams and partnering with operational leaders required
• Prior experience with acquisitions/new business a plus
• Strong knowledge of employment law, HR programs and compliance best practices required
• Demonstrated experience with talent management, organizational design and change management. 
• Demonstrates a concern for achieving a standard of excellence.
• Creative and proactive, with the ability to identify opportunities and take initiative.
• Strong leadership skills and equally strong business acumen. Exhibits a growth mindset, adapts quickly to feedback and changes in the business environment
• Results oriented, sound judgement, capable of balancing business and associate considerations
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to operate effectively at both executive and front-line levels
• Strategic, with the ability to diagnose organizational opportunities and issues and then develop an appropriate plan to address
• Capable of delivering executive level written and verbal communications and presentations
• Executive presence with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization; demonstrates authenticity, confidence, commitment, compassion, and trustworthiness while effectively navigating organizational resources and networks
• Demonstrated ability to successfully drive enterprise-wide initiatives
• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with a focus on delivering projected results
• Strong conceptual / systems thinking ability; able to recognize patterns, trends and connections to develop innovative ideas and solutions
• Is resilient and can navigate through complex and challenging situations effectively
• Ability to travel 50%
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job. 
• Successful candidate must complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and complete a drug screening.

Physical Requirements:
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
• While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.