Craig Ritchie Email & Phone Number

Schaumburg, Il

HR Executive responsible for leading a team of 25 HR professionals, including 6 direct reports, supporting the Great Lakes Market in Verizon Wireless. Delivered HR generalist support, including employee relations, leadership staffing, talent management, employee development and compensation administration to approx. 4,500 frontline and mgmt employees in retail, B2B, and Indirect sales. Member of Great Lakes Market Executive Team, with dotted line reporting relationship to the Market President.

Schaumburg, Il

Strategic HR Leader responsible for providing field HR business partner support to 11k+ sales, customer service, operations, network, finance and marketing employees in a 16 state geography. Lead a team of 9 direct reports and 102 total HR professionals, delivering HR generalist and talent acquisition services. Active member of VZW Midwest Area Executive Leadership team, with dotted line reporting relationship into the MWA President.

Schaumburg, Il

Strategic HR business partner for field sales organization of 1,900 employees, with dotted line reporting relationship to Region President. Lead staff of 8 HR professionals in delivering recruiting, staffing, employee relations, compensation administration, and employee/leadership development programs to the Region mgmt team and employee base.

Basking Ridge, Nj

Designed, developed, and administered business unit compensation programs, covering general management and union hourly populations for Verizon's Domestic Telecom Unit (43k mgmt and 99k union hourly employees). Led staff of 5 compensation professionals in delivering compensation consulting services to the business unit and executive team. Partnered with Verizon's corporate compensation function to ensure alignment between business unit and corporate compensation policies and programs. Managed an annual salary growth budget of approx. $100M.

Ma, Labor & Industrial Relations

Bs, Business Administration, Graduated Cum Laude