Barbara Johnson, Mba, Sphr Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Morrisville, Nc, Us

A leading provider of insurance regulatory compliance technology with over 300 employees and hundreds of enterprise clients. • Align goals, talent acquisition, engagement, and retention to achieve business objectives, vision, and values.• Manage total rewards, benefits, retirement plan, payroll system, recruiting, and other human resource functions.• 2022 RegEd Achiever's Club • 2021 Engagement Survey - highest-scoring leader• Directed a 50% reduction in force for a separate business unit and transitioned remaining staff to a new team.• Obtained medical rate increases of 4% YOY for employee premiums.• Created an all-virtual onboarding employee experience, with successful 30-day new hire NPS survey results at 90 out of 100.• Recruit, train, manage, and develop six high-performing human resources professionals.• Retooled onboarding workflows to increase manager participation, assigned mentors to enhance the new hire experience.• Benchmarked positions in PayScale, creating transparency by implementing module calibrating market salaries with skills.• Revamped employee recognition and anniversary awards program with Blueboard, an incentives platform.• Hosted management learning sessions, thereby increasing employee satisfaction, performance, and retention.• Increased engagement and productivity by conducting StrengthsFinder Assessment to align competencies with roles.• Maintained compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act by reviewing, benchmarking, and adjusting compensation plans.• Optimized compensation ranges by analyzing market data to inform offers, incentives, resource plans, and merit increases. • Transitioned from legacy HRIS system for payroll, benefits, and time to a new system, integrating Workday with ADP Payroll.• Boosted efficiency, accuracy, and reduced costs by leveraging the new HRIS to automate many human resource tasks.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

A private research university widely known for its innovation and academic strength in science, medicine, business, and law.• Instructed human resources professionals preparing for PHR and SPHR certification exams and mentored on career growth.

Durham, Nc, Us

A software solution provider with 150 employees in the U.S. and India. • While employed by Intelligent Information Systems, later acquired by Farragut Systems, combined and oversaw the U.S. and Indian human resource functions, and advised the chief operating officer on workforce planning. • Recruited, trained, evaluated, and mentored a top-performing human resource team.• Created scorecard and conducted quarterly surveys to measure employee engagement, productivity, and satisfaction.• Increased engagement by 10% by creating an impactful total employee experience that increased staff buy-in to goals.• Negotiated medical, dental, vision, insurance, financial, and other benefits, balancing savings with competitive rewards. • Decreased benefits costs and increased efficiency by implementing health reimbursement arrangement HRA plan. • Reduced labor costs by 30% by outsourcing accounting tasks and using in-house legal resources for visa documentation.• Ensured ongoing availability of resources by communicating with product management to handle capacity planning. • Recruited, retrained, and realigned employees in connection with a reduction in force in the Indian organization.• Mentored, guided, and assisted junior HR colleagues pursuing professional credentials.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Provides data, storage, voice, video telecommunications, and other technology solutions. • Guided employees through leadership, culture, policy, and other organizational changes by providing context and support.• Improved morale and work environment by providing empathy, rationale, and conflict resolution during reduction in force.• Created support for the new CEO and Board by enhancing connections between leaders and their teams.• Represented employee needs for performance-based compensation and reduced costs by automating tasks.• Enabled compensation equity by providing market data to the Compensation Committee to make fact-based salary ranges.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

A leading provider of FinTech, payment processing, and bill pay technology to financial institutions with $14B in revenue. • Oversaw human resource functions for 300 employees in the Research Triangle Park NC, New Jersey, Baltimore regions.• Supervised recruiting, benefits, benefits, engagement, succession, compliance, resource management, and training.• Onboarded new staff after the acquisition of a small company by providing training on stock options, investing, and taxes.• Developed labor demand forecasting and deployment system in collaboration with local and divisional finance teams. • Reduced recruiting costs and reliance on staffing agencies by developing a vendor quality assurance program.• Designed and launched SAP ERP training on self-service employee tools and manager dashboards.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Postgraduate Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Textile Management