Gloria Taylor Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Oversee Global and Domestic Benefits, Compensation, Employee Relations, Training and Development, recruiting Nationwide, Employee Leave and HRIS. Coordinates with the senior management team to strategically identify staffing and budget needs. Perform site visits to international business units. Eliminates global and domestic risk exposure. Top Contributions:* Corporate acquisition within 45 days which expanded business footprint into 8 countries with 150 additional personnel.* Created internal learning university, speaker’s series and multiple management training opportunities.* Oversaw the management of benefits transition from fully funded to self-funded insurance plans saving the company over $250,000 annually.* Oversaw the implementation of work-life balance programs internally by introducing many seminars and retreats promoting wellness, stress management, efficiency, work-life balance, organizational skills, and on-site yoga classes.* Adapted company human resource operations to respond to addition of international locations.* Implemented committees and focus group to include company safety committee which included crisis plan to provide rapid response mechanism in event of emergency that could impact company operations, events committee, benefits focus groups, sports committee, and on-site wellness activities.* Maintained qualified staffing levels during period of rapid corporate growth where staff levels grew from 150 to 400 domestic employees.* Decreased time to hire from 3 months to 1 month by streamlining talent acquisition process and adding a Talent Acquisition Manager.* Decreased employee turnover rates 5% by providing on going management training tools including education on how to manage and grow talent from within as well as to hire smarter from outside.

Wilsonville, Or

Promoted into higher level of responsibility within Human Resources from Financial Analyst / Commissions Accounting (5/1999–11/2000), in recognition for ability to bridge gap between Accounting and Human Resources based on prior HR experience. Top Contributions:* Improved overall customer service performance levels 10% following the implementation of a new SAP compensation module. * Was part of the project management team to select new HRIS, identified key areas for sales personnel with variable compensation plans and assisted in setting up training program for internal staff and management to provide education on operating new HRIS.* Reduced data errors by 15% by streamlining HRIS to assist human resource personnel to access data through one program which delivered more timely reports, consistency in data entry, and improved communications.

Lake Oswego, Or

Hired to startup company to build Human Resources and Payroll infrastructure and functions from scratch; leveraged knowledge of payroll systems to define internal systems that met company’s expansion needs. * Built high-performance team during time where company increased headcount from 180 to 1,200 employees within 7 months; implemented and managed scalable payroll and HRIS system with Ceridian while providing tactical counsel to company CEO and COO. * Navigated through company purchase of subsidiary; engineered seamless transition by working with new business unit to get necessary human resources and payroll data and to transfer information to internal HRIS system.* Instrumental as part of the project management team when converting from Ceridian to ADP HRIS system nationally and in the UK.