Devin Watts Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

It's simple... I love what I do! Check us out @ https://youtu.be/mXsFY5zkZ3wServing Atlanta, GA and Bay Area, CaliforniaExperienced Project Manager with a focus on the planning and delivery of high-performance automotive builds, specializing in 1986 and 1987 Buick Grand Nationals. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and managing end-to-end project life cycles, ensuring high-quality results.Key Skills & Responsibilities:Project Planning & Roadmap Creation: Lead comprehensive project planning, roadmap development, and task scheduling using Smartsheets and other project management tools to ensure timely delivery.Team Coordination & Stakeholder Management: Align teams across North America in multiple disciplines, ensuring efficient communication and coordination with clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders.Budgeting & Resource Allocation: Manage project budgets, tracked resources, and monitored costs to deliver within financial and resource constraints.KPI Tracking & Performance Reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project success and reported status updates to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability.Risk & Issues Management: Proactively identified potential risks and challenges, implementing mitigation strategies to maintain project timelines and quality standards.Change & Quality Management: Lead quality assurance inspections and final tuning processes, ensuring project outputs met or exceeded client expectations, and handled scope changes effectively.Vendor Management: Manage relationships with vendors and suppliers, ensuring timely procurement of parts and services necessary for project completion.Experience with PMO Processes: Familiar with (PMO) and Fintech processes and frameworks to ensure consistency in on time payments and project delivery.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led recruiting strategies for: Android, Fitbit, Pixel 6, Pixel Buds, Google Nest, Google Voice, Google TV, Google Wallet, and Google Search.As a Recruiting Project Manager, I successfully managed large-scale recruiting initiatives, aligning diverse teams and resources to meet aggressive hiring targets and project timelines. Leveraged project management skills to drive operational excellence in recruitment while maintaining alignment with business stakeholders and performance KPIs.Key Skills & Responsibilities:Project Planning & Roadmap Creation: Developed detailed recruitment project plans, including milestone setting and timeline management, ensuring the hiring pipeline was in sync with operational demands.Stakeholder Management & Team Coordination: Managed relationships between hiring managers, HR teams, and external partners, facilitating collaboration to align recruiting goals and maintain stakeholder satisfaction.KPI Tracking & Status Reporting: Created and tracked KPIs to measure recruiting success (time to fill, cost per hire, quality of hire), regularly reporting progress and insights to senior leadership, and adjusting strategies as needed.Risk & Issues Management: Identified potential risks such as talent shortages or process bottlenecks, and implemented mitigation plans to keep recruitment projects on track.Budget & Resource Allocation: Managed the recruiting budget and ensured resource allocation was optimized, making efficient use of internal and external talent acquisition tools and services.Vendor & Contract Management: Managed vendor relationships with recruitment agencies, job boards, and technology providers, ensuring timely delivery of services while negotiating favorable terms.Change & Quality Management: Led initiatives to streamline recruiting processes, ensuring quality hires and improving the candidate experience. Handled changes in job requirements or hiring targets while maintaining project timelines.

Carrollton, Ga, Us

Servant leader that promoted a culture of accountability, flexibility, and productivity; while also ensuring cross functional managers and our TA team adhered to Service Level Agreements. Within this role, I established clear procedures including: Intake Sessions, Screenings, Interviews, Debriefs, Offers, and New Employee Onboarding business models. Reviewed year-end goals and developed business plans to attract, retain, promote, and expand current team. I served as a leader to 8 direct reports, and worked closely with 1 specialized agency which included 4-7 "Flex-reports" to support strategic recruiting projects.- Empowering a team to consistently extend 55 offers on a weekly basis, and maintained a monthly hiring average of 142 people during a national pandemic. We get it done!- Presented business case to develop quick wins, and increase team size from 6 individuals to 12 individuals in first 90 days, enabling staffing levels to be in line with recruiting volume. - Mentored new employees and built recruiter confidence to deliver results. - Gained highest possible Net Promoter Score. Took team from 47 NPS to 100 NPS on scale of (-100 to 100) Ask me How! - Created development goals for employees and enabled team to understand their impact on corporate objectives. - Transitioned to a virtual hiring strategy, and effectively hired 86 new employees within one virtual interview day, and over 90 offers in one day with onsite interview day. Community outreach is key!- Improved time to fill metric from 42 days to 39 days. - Improved time to offer from 36 days oto 29 days- Reduced 90-day turnover from 36% to 29%, by paying close attention to data trends. - Improved Hiring Manager Satisfaction from 76% to 81% in the first 90 days in the role.

Carrollton, Ga, Us

Developed a network of diverse talent pools for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and initial interviews and pre-screening assessments. Established and nurtured contacts with individuals and organizations by applying effective strategies and techniques to promote the success of organizational objectives. Maintained in-depth understanding of industry trends and provided data to business leaders to improve workforce planning. Primarily recruited for sales and engineers, but i'm also equipped with experience in recruiting for HR, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, Value Stream, Hourly Manufacturing Operations, Maintenance Technician, and Skilled Trades professionals.- Onboarded 288 employees that have influenced the organization in a positive manner while building a culture of sustainability. - Overachieved DEI goals with a record high of 27 women in leadership roles, an increase of 17%.- Achieved “most salaried underrepresented minorities hired” with 23 being hired in 3 years.- Utilized Smashfly and other AI technologies to operate and maintain applicant tracking and candidate management, which enabled the following improvements: o 4500 process engineers were contacted nationally and 1924 completed an application. o 206 were screened and interviewed, 84 Panel interviews were conducted and 16 were hired with an average time to fill of 64 days.

Carrollton, Ga, Us

Represented the corporate HR team for compensation and benefit projects for 7500+ employees. Liaised with HR and payroll to coordinate and manage employee leaves of absence, including FMLA and disability leaves. Analyzed and assessed job duties and responsibilities by applying quantitative analysis to classification and compensation studies. Prepared and submitted the organization’s Affirmative Action Plan and EEO report. - Coached 350+ managers on a quarterly basis through employee relations matters including employee engagement, D&I, documentation, discipline, compensation, and performance improvement plans. - Led the creation and implementation of a flexible work policy, and quarterly career coaching which improved net promoter score.- Collaborated on the implementation of performance management training programs that improved employee retention by 12%. - Executed talent training and development goals through new LMS system which enabled 98% completion rate for corporate safety training initiatives with 96% of development goals completed on time.- Restored termination process, to facilitate an ease of systematic procedures, reducing manual labor time. - Managed implementation of new HRIS system that transformed HR resources management organization and provided the following benefits: o Enabled visibility into company goals, performance management, and an ATS system.o Identified gaps in pay structure and created a path to collaborate with Towers Watson for improvements.o Improved market competitiveness through improving pay rates from 47% of market rate to 80%.

Carrollton, Ga, Us

Oversaw sales forecasting, goal setting, and performance reporting for 1,200 accounts with a total revenue contribution of $450M. Monitored customer buying trends, market condition, and competitor actions to adjust strategies and achieve sales goals. Managed full sales cycles, which included initiating contact, building, optimizing, and closing deals. Assisted with price changes by reviewing the stock market and metal evaluations. Served as planogram specialist to ensure top-selling products were at a merchandising level to advance marketing strategies.- Consistently attained individual sales goal of $130M in annual revenue for eCommerce (homedepot.com) Southwire product sales - Utilized consistent and tight product descriptions to assure returns were under the target of 10%

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General