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Promoted to HR Manager after 6 months.HR responsibilities for over 800 distribution, sales, and transportation employees for Cleveland, Detroit, and Atlanta sites (and surrounding hubs) in the following areas: labor relations, employee relations, leadership development, change management, and policies/procedures.Partner with Cleveland’s leadership team to develop and implement site attrition reduction plan.

Lead a team of 4-8 HR professionals at a distribution center with 4000 associates. Responsibilities include team development, leadership development, positive employee relations, and policy creation/implementation.Partner with Operations leadership on cultural changes to improve associates’ experience, which includes creating and implementing actions to reduce site attrition.

HR leader for US operations of the Salcef Group, which includes the following: employee engagement, employee relations, labor relations, compensation/payroll, policies and procedures, recruiting, staffing, and training & development. Partner with colleagues in Italy to ensure global policies and procedures are compliant with US law.(Managed 1 HR professional)

HR responsibilities for 2 unionized manufacturing sites in Northeast Ohio, namely in labor relations, employee relations, recruiting, payroll administration, and benefits administration. Member of 2018 & 2019 negotiations teams that successfully ratified 5 year union contracts for each site in Northeast Ohio. Negotiated site work rules for Cleveland site in order to help ensure consistency across the site.Recruited for and staffed over 40 positions during tenure, including multiple EHS Managers, EHS Specialist, Production Manager, Maintenance Managers, and an array of hourly roles.

Member of Plant Leadership team (supporting 300 employees) responsible for a variety of HR initiatives, including organizational development, union avoidance, talent management, and policy creation/implementation.

Supported organization during global restructuring in realigning sales function regionally for short and long-term success. Led Performance Management Process for Sales Center, which included working with Management to create Performance Improvement Plans utilizing S.M.A.R.T. objectives while ensuring consistency across functions.Coached and developed Managers and Assistant Managers in order to drive business results. Assisted Sales and Operations leadership in assessing talent in the organization to drive Talent Management Strategy of ensuring employees were in suitable positions. Represented the organization in responding to EEOC charges and unemployment claims in order to mitigate financial risk to the organization.(Indirectly managed 1 HR professional)

Provided daily Strategic and Tactical HR support to unionized Aerospace and Wheels organizations, namely in Employee Relations, to ensure both Employees and Management were held accountable for following UAW and IAM contracts, and Hourly Staffing, to ensure Business units were staffed accordingly to produce efficiently. (Supported organization of 700 hourly employees for majority of tenure, before hire of additional HR Generalist; Indirectly managed 1 HR professional in this role) Partnered with Operations Leadership to combine job classifications for efficiency improvements. Member of Negotiations Team that successful negotiated IAM contract in November 2012. Worked closely with Labor Relations Manager to resolve Grievances in a timely manner and avoid future ones.

Promoted to HR Manager at the Deerfield, MA manufacturing facility after new hire rotational program. (Managed 1 HR professional in this role)Collaborated with Business leaders to fairly resolve employee relations issues and created internal policies and procedures through research and benchmarking.Co-Led Employee Discussion Group to increase communication between managers and employees in union avoidance strategy.Conducted compensation analysis for both yearly merit and hourly wage structure and assisted managers in the communication to employees. Created Talent Management Presentations in order to align Bayer's People strategy with its Business strategy and presented results to Senior Level Management.Recruited qualified candidates to the organization through attending collegiate career fairs, screening and interviewing candidates, and participated in annual Bayer CropScience seasonal merchandising recruiting event.