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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Addison Group is named one of the largest staffing firms in America. The agency is a staffing and consulting services company that focuses on placing individuals within HR/Administrative, Finance and Accounting, IT/Engineering, Healthcare, and Corporate positions.HR Business Partner: 🔵Overseeing the Healthcare division and managing standardization of compensation and commissions structure for 200 employees.🔵Providing guidance and counsel on legal matters such as high-risk terminations, severance agreements, EEOC claims, and employee investigations to avoid legal risk directly contributing to the success of the bottom line. 🔵Reducing revenue loss by advising on compliance to federal, state, and local employment and payroll laws, in turn avoiding litigation proceedings for non-compliance. Background Program and Implementation Manger: 🔵Serving as a consultative liaison by advising a team of 80 end-users on best practices, resulting in mitigating costly errors. 🔵Processing invoice approvals for over $200k monthly budget allowance and developing strategies to reduce spend. 🔵Collaborating with learning and development to develop a learning curriculum to increase performance and productivity of employees. 🔵Contributed technical expertise through the development of SharePoint pages for our end-users to save time on background check submissions. 🔵Evaluating key performance indicators such as turnaround times, application completion rates, adverse action percentages, and program spend to make process recommendations, resulting in a more efficient return on investment. Recognitions: Sapphire and Hire Achiever Award recipient in 2021.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

SMS Assist is a facilities and property maintenance service that utilizes a catered technical platform to service property maintenance companies across the United States.🔵 Managed FMLA, ADA, parental leave, short and long term disability, and employee life compliance, minimizing EEOC and ADA claims. 🔵Coached business units on leave of absence laws and managed policy adherence, giving managers the knowledge to avoid legal exposure. 🔵Enhanced the leave administration process through the development of KPI metrics such as position, tenure, cost, and department to provide data for informed decision making.

Evanston, Illinois, Us

L2TMedia is a digital marketing agency that provides media advertisement services (SEO, Content Management, Paid Social, Paid Search, Programmattic, Creative, Finance/Accounting, Sales, Account Management, etc) nationally to automotive dealerships at a local and regional level. 🔵 Acted as the Head of the Human Resources department for a period of time and presented departmental success to leadership such as time to hire and fill ratios, attrition statistics, and exit trends.🔵Negotiated and minimized increased employer benefits cost to $3k during a plan year with 20% increases. 🔵Proactively streamlined efficiency with new HRIS software by vendor vetting and negotiating a minimal increase in cost to $3k annually. 🔵Restructured key HR functions such as performance management, benefits administration, and employee onboarding, leading to increased engagement and retention. 🔵Created a cost savings of $50k by developing, administering, and quantifying an employee engagement survey to execute future change.

Evanston, Illinois, Us

🔵 Constructed career paths and levels with C-Suite executives to enhance employee retention. 🔵Transformed the ADP payroll platform into a comprehensive resource center for HR and Benefits policies, processes, and documents. 🔵Managed benefits program initiatives such as open enrollment, qualifying life events, leave absences, COBRA tracking, and wellness initiatives to increase employee satisfaction with benefit offerings. 🔵Recommended salary adjustments for pay equity based on market culpepper compensation data, resulting in reduced attrition.

Koch Foods is a poultry processor and distributor that exists to serve the need to feed the world by ending hunger.🔵 Led comprehensive Talent Acquisition processes from end to end for Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia markets for manufacturing positions. 🔵Streamlined onboarding process through successful completion of I-9s to remain compliant with E-Verify.🔵Created, developed, and revised job descriptions to ensure alignment of roles and responsibilities to be transparent about position expectations presented to the candidate. 🔵Mentored and trained new HR team members in organizational systems and procedures. 🔵Generated a cost savings of $5k during a Department of Labor audit.

Bachelor’S Degree, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Associate’S Degree, Business Management