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United States

This role is an expansion of the previous director role to include building out a new HR product owner function across hire to rehire processes and systems globally. In addition to building out this new function, I also became responsible for all HR components of deal operations to support mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. The expanded role split the responsibilities into two key arms of my People Product Excellence function to include Process and Product Ownership and Business Excellence that carry out all new and existing responsbilities in the shift in model.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Contributing to Pearson's strategic vision, I lead HR Operations Support and Delivery, ensuring sustained excellence aligned with business goals. Partnering with the SVP Operations & Payroll, delivering cyclical support to drive a 3 to 5-year plan within budgetary norms.Key Achievements:Strategic Vision: Shape Pearson's HR Operations strategy by aligning with business divisions, understanding their models, and supporting strategic goals.Process Ownership: Drive end-to-end ownership of the Hire to Retire process, ensuring successful project delivery within budget and timelines.Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage directly with HRBP’s, providing tailored support to diverse business divisions.Vendor Management: Oversee global HR operations vendor services contracts, lead negotiations, service reviews, and partnership with Procurement and Finance teams.Audit & Compliance: Ensure global HR policy framework compliance, lead audits, and communicate findings to management.Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, develop ideas for enhanced user experience, and review support models.Team Development: Cultivate talent, supporting Capability Lead initiatives for a cross-functional, super user mindset.Transformational Delivery: Collaborate with the HR Transformation Office to provide skilled individuals for Initiatives and Projects.Stakeholder Management: Utilize reporting for timely insights, lead teams in providing support for cyclical and project activities.Governance and Escalation: Ensure team adherence to HR Governance, implement tools for effective escalation management.My commitment lies in orchestrating transformative changes, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering collaborative partnerships for Pearson's HR operations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

This senior level role builds upon the previous role by managing a global relationship management team and supporting all business functions between local HR, HR COE, technical and financial support teams and the administrative support teams in Pearson people services (PPS) and global business services (GBS). This role provides strategic direction and SME support of HR operation projects and deliverables within the employee experience teams and reports to the SVP, employee experience. A team of regional relationship managers report into this role and maintain regular relationships with the HR director of PPS and HRBP level roles to communicate HR Ops initiatives, advise upon issues experienced in the business and manage escalations.Responsibilities:-Engage and maintain roadmap and priorities conversations with COE leads in talent acquisition, talent management, reward, benefits, learning and development-Strategic engagement with D&I and employee relations SVPs as well as enabling function heads of state to deliver business priorities; project and cyclical. .-Perform goal and performance management with the regional relationship team and support employee experience annual cycles accordingly. -Strategic alignment of HR COE, change request and continuous initiatives and technology implementation and associated process workflows for the business.-Manage HR operations vendor relationships through business/service reviews, contract negotiation and RFP processing for background check, employment verification, outplacement services etc.-Participate as a SME in cross functional steer co meetings regarding technical and process solutions to drive improved employee experience.-Designing and implementing global recruitment, talent and onboarding systems and supporting business processes for the employee lifecycle hire to retire including.

Bloomington, Minnesota

This role is responsible for the alignment of HR Operations priorities against the priorities of HR centers of excellence and technology teams, project and restructuring initiatives and vendor solutions within local markets. The HR operating model is central to this role to develop actionable strategies to continually improve the end user experience from hire to retire. The role delivers a consistent approach globally in the regional manager’s support scope. Responsibilities include:-Drive the change and adoption efforts in BAU as a member of a regional relationship manager teamExecute change request management deliverables and ensure local processes/practices align accordingly. -Stabilize HR Operations with the PPS global support teams and drive improvements and fixes in process workflows and system upgrades and changes. -Engage with global HR stakeholders across the organization at all levels and responsibilities. -SME across recruit, onboarding and ongoing employee experience processes and workflows across all systems HR use centrally. Oracle Products: Taleo, Taleo Onboarding, Oracle Recruit, HCM & Journeys and all talent, performance, reward and benefit add ons as well.

Bloomington, Minnesota

This role provided HR business partnering to Pearson VUE’s network of test centers across North America including over 250 sites divided into regional teams. The role included coaching/mentoring, employee relations, hiring and onboarding support and project management across expansions of network. The role also supported the global enabling program in its transition of administrative support services from North America to our PPS teams in Manila and Krakow. The role ultimately gained global exposure to the HR Operations team for future roles and supported design and implementation for HRBP administrative transitions on a global scale. Responsibilities:-Supporting managers in annual cycles of incentive and performance management, developing state-specific procedures and guidelines and driving administrative work to manager self service. -Design Taleo onboarding workflows for the North America and Assessment business groups. -Manage Kronos timekeeping solutions and process flows to Oracle ERP timekeeping and ultimately ADP payroll services. -Train and educate managers and HR coordinators to support continuous improvement initiatives and transition programs. -Provide SME and technical expertise across data and relationship management via the local country data submission group; developing global transition support structures with HRBP and PPS teams. -Act as the VUE HR SME for process design and administration with PPS set up; conducting knowledge transfer, quality check and hyper care support post transition and go live.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide general support for recruitment, on-boarding, and the employee life-cycle. Directly report to HR Business Partners to provide guidance and solutions for employee data management, global operations with our central teams, and support HRIS Systems for all HR Activities: - Provide employee record creation and maintenance with Oracle R12 systems and track/update employee records accordingly. - Work with employees and central payroll teams to ensure pay corrections/updates are recorded and paid within the legal requirements of employee localities.- Provide IT/HRIS Support of Sharepointe, Infopath, Access database systems and Red Carpet on-boarding solutions to provide an employee and recruiters with a smooth on-boarding experience.- Provide HRBP Support for the employee lifecycle, which includes: first day paperwork, offer/promotion letter creation, new hire benefit orientation, termination/exit interviews etc.- Assist in the management of Annual and Sales Incentive plans for sales/marketing, management and director level roles within the division of Pearson VUE.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

This role expands upon the HR Administrator role. Pearson VUE has afforded the opportunity to expand responsibilities to grow in these areas:- Provide high level support to HR Business Partners and employees. - Support on-boarding, day one, and continual employment activities related to recruitment, on-boarding, employee data management, pay and general life-cycle activities. - Employment life cycle involvement includes promotions, demotions, personnel improvement plans, and terminations (involuntary and voluntary alike); general employee relations. - Provide HRIS systems support and data analysis for HR Business Partners and departments as needed. The role is quasi technical in nature, providing IT support for employees utilizing self-service global solutions. In addition to these duties the Senior HR Administrator position has required greater involvement in global central HR solution management. Pearson is converting their current 10+ global employment hiring and HRIS practices to a central solution (Oracle Fusion). I have been involved with the central team creation of new best practices with Taleo recruiting, Oracle Fusion employee management, Docushare employee electronic file systems etc.- Provide direct support to the central (UK) based teams regarding the conversion of current recruiting systems iCIMS to Taleo.- Provide workflow and audit of current employee data systems to translate new recruiting and workflow solutions for Corporate and Test Center employee populations. - Provide support of US-wide policies and practices for all corporate sites to ensure local legal requirements are accounted for in global recruiting practices.- Provide significant data management and employee/manager specific support; navigating new tools and processes as they come online in a global solution phased approach.

Bloomington, Mn

Recruit field positions within the Pearson Vue network of professional testing centers throughout the United States; promoting a professional workforce dedicated to maintaining the strength and longevity of Pearson’s educational reputation globally. - Obtaining Requisitions: Reviewing the position, site, and other job posting details with the hiring manager to ensure the best candidate(s) will be selected to streamline the hiring process.- Proofing and Posting Requisitions: Preparing the final posting requirements for live presentation on internal and external posting sites.- Vetting Candidates Reviewing applicant resumes for applicable experience, availability, and ultimately validating candidacy through phone screenings and interviews. - Presenting Candidates: Coordinating candidate and hiring manager schedules to perform final interviewing and meet and greet processes.- Offers: Obtaining hiring decisions from managers from the final candidates and offering, setting up documentation processes, and moving the candidate into a hired status for HR coordination. - Documentation: Providing legal documentation on candidates reviewed and hired through the requisition process.

- Assist the finance director in departmental budget management through special projects, analysis, and recommendations. Some of these functions involved cross training with the accounts payable functions including monthly payroll and benefits management. - Management of user accounts, services, and customer relations for receivable functions.- General Accounts Receivable Functions- Maintain sub ledger transactions for utility, permit, recreation, rental, special assessment and other payments to the city. - Provide backup for some A/P functions.- Manage billing and collections for a multitude of city facilities. During my tenure, I have significantly reduced process and human factor errors through creating new processes and procedures and encouraging improved communication lines. - Work as a team player to achieve external customer needs. - Reconciliation and reporting services for the finance and other department directors.- Participate in talent acquisition and recruiting activities within the finance department. - Assisted IT in maintaining and updating the city website.

Safari Island And Waconia Ice Arena

• Trained and managed of new and current staff. • Interview prospective candidates and helped out with the process of talent acquisition.• Provided an open door policy for questions, comments and concerns for guests and staff alike; coaching as needed. • Maintained daily financial transactions, deposit and financial reporting to finance staff.• Direction of daily operations, staff and guest services.• Extensive and proficient use of CLASS and Microsoft Office programs for management of facilities; programming, account management, rental, point-of-sale and other financial reconciliation functions. • Part-time position between both facilities over this period of time up to 35 hours per week.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Human Resources Management And Services, A All Semesters

Activities and Societies: N/AThe masters program provided additional knowledge preparing me for movement into the field of human.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Accounting, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Senate Treasurer 2006-2007 Student Senate Senior Representative 2007-2008 Chamber & Chamber Choir.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Human Resources Management And Services