Responsible for strategic planning, oversight and driving results across all areas of Human Resources. Partners with other business leaders and department heads to provide guidance and positively influences outcomes pertaining to staffing, retention, employee development and issue resolution.Manages all benefits programs alongside CFO to ensure we are providing generous and competitive offerings based on current and future employee needs. Manages biweekly payroll process alongside CFO from start to finish. Handles sensitive and complicated employee relations issues to ensure successful outcomes and to avoid legislative risks. Ensures brewery compliance with federal, state and local legislation and regulations pertaining to employment, benefits and management best practices. Responsible for maintaining an up-to-date Employee Handbook and creating new written policies as needed. Maintains knowledge of trends, legislative/regulatory developments, best practices, and new HR technologies and communicates changes in policy, practice, and resources to management and teams.Facilitates and champions professional development, training, and career planning for HR Coordinator. Develops and executes planning for talent management and develops long term hiring strategies.Prioritizes diversity, inclusion and belonging in beer.

Supported HR needs for 150 employees across multiple locations for a very fast-paced and rapidly growing industrial real estate company. Working with the AVP, provided guidance and expertise to Executive Team on all employee matters, including hiring strategies, employee relations issues, employee engagement and satisfaction, culture development and compensation and rewards. Coached managers on recruiting best practices, handling employee relations challenges and performance management. Advised leaders of HR best practices while remaining innovative in order to address the unique needs of our employees and business. Alongside the AVP, recommended and implemented solutions to grow HR practice to maturity, including selection of an applicant tracking system and revamping recruiting process. Managed relationship with Professional Employer Organization (PEO). Processed and reviewed biweekly payroll, ensuring all issues were addressed with PEO prior to submission. Point person for all recruiting efforts, including some primary recruiting responsibilities and management of staffing agency relationships and projects. Approached all new issues with a combination of analysis and creativity. Managed HR Associate.

Performed all Human Resources-related duties at the professional level including employee relations, training, employment, compensation, benefits, recruiting and on-boarding, and performance management for three business units within Cofactor.Consulted legal counsel to ensure that policies comply with federal and state law.Assisted Recruiting Team with their efforts, including conducting interviews and soliciting feedback from other interviewers. Responsible for full on-boarding and off-boarding process. Planned and conducted new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward Company goals.Coordinated and executed all personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, and terminations, and employee statistics for government reporting.Coordinated and/or conducted management training in interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review, safety, and sexual harassment.Advised management in appropriate resolution of employee relations issues.Worked with legal counsel to manage all employment visa transfer processes. Responded to all employee inquiries regarding policies, procedures, benefits and programs.Managed performance review process to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and equity within organization. Managed merit increase and bonus allotment process based on individual and company performance metrics. Administered all benefits programs including health, vision and dental insurance, PTO, leave of absence, flex spending and employee assistance.Worked with Finance team to prepare annual HR budget. Conducted exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.Represented organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.

Provided global HR support to the Information Services Department by acting as a liaison with local HR Departments in the following ways: Oversee IT staff satisfaction improvement effort. Manage approval process for all IT new hires (temp and perm).Develop and update job descriptions for all department employees.Create, deploy and analyze results from staffing and training-related surveys.Organize in-house training sessions for all IT staff.Oversight of IT-specific performance review process.Manage global departmental organizational chart in Visio and internal headcount document in Excel.Global title alignment assistance.Also acted as a liaison to the procurement, accounting/finance and facilities teams and organized global, department-wide town hall meetings.

Conducted bi-weekly staff New Hire Orientation for Chicago office.Maintained relationships with various department vendors.Oversaw Mayer Brown Discount Program.Planned all staff retirement parties and facilitated staff anniversary program. Coordinated the Firm’s annual United Way drive.Organized employee events, including bi-monthly lunchtime presentations.Assisted with updating changes to employee manuals for all 7 US offices.Handled employment verifications. Ordered flowers for staff anniversaries, bereavements and leaves of absence.