Isham Jay Bennett Email & Phone Number

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

CHRO of Smithfield Foods. Smithfield Foods is the world’s largest pork processor, the largest hog producer in the United States and a leader in numerous packaged meats categories. Popular brands include Smithfield®, Eckrich®, Nathan’s Famous®, Farmland®, Armour®, Farmer John®, Kretschmar®, John Morrell®, Cook’s®, Gwaltney®, Carando®, Margherita®, Curly’s®, Healthy Ones®, Morliny®, Krakus®, and Berlinki®. Smithfield Foods is committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintaining robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental, and food safety and quality programs. Smithfield is a $20B company with operations in 28 states and seven countries, and nearly 60,000 employees across the U.S., Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the United Kingdom (UK) and Mexico.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Responsible for leading the human resource initiatives and program execution strategies for four lines of business that comprise a $16B business area.

Stratford, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for 14,000 employees in a $6B business area covering five market segments focused on US DoD customers, commercial rotorcraft, international military customers, mission systems and future vertical lift. Span of control includes the entire scope of HR functional management with the Sikorsky line of business as part of the Rotary Mission Systems sector of Lockheed Martin.

Stratford, Connecticut, Us

Senior business leader providing functional management and organizational leadership for 9,000 employees in a $3.5B manufacturing cost center across Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas, Poland, Turkey and India. Committed to driving performance by engaging people and sustaining a culture of excellence in quality, delivery, and productivity across all Sikorsky operations world-wide.

London, England, Gb

Responsibilities include business and functional management of HR strategy and execution for the global defense organization including 6,000 employees in a $4B P&L in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. Member of the HR Executive and Defence Sector Executive reporting to both the President, Defence Aerospace and Group Director, Human Resources.

London, England, Gb

Led all aspects of human resource management for 2,800 hourly and salaried employees in the primary North American manufacturing unit. Chief negotiator and HR lead reporting to the Executive Vice President of Business Operations.

Farmington, Ct, Us

Managed salaried and hourly human resources activities for 2,000 associates including employee development, compensation, negotiations strategy & leadership (United Steel Workers), progression and succession planning, and leadership development.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Provided HR management of the global human resources function for 200 HR employees worldwide in four regions to include North America; Latin America, Africa and the Middle East; Europe and Asia. Provided oversight for training and employee development for entry level positions through senior executive management roles. Facilitated senior HR leadership planning related to talent management and career progression.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Change management leader for a General Motors greenfield facility in Baltimore, Maryland. Maintained a productive atmosphere of employee engagement and positive UAW relationships while enhancing our corporate image as a leading manufacturer in the Greater Washington DC-Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana. Managed glogal distributor and dealer network concerns related to contractual and financial compliance and performance.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

HR Generalist for salaried personnel activities for the Indianapolis manufacturing, engineering, and sales & marketing sites.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Lead labor relations professional responsible for coaching and counseling management on contract administration of UAW National and Local Agreements. Assisted in leadership and implementation of GM-UAW negotiated local agreements in 1993, 1996, and 1999.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Led manufacturing activities for transmission valve production through the supervision of 15 hourly associates and indirect skilled trades personnel. Developed a handling process to minimize damage to valves when in transport internally between production operations resulting in improved quality and reduced cost of scrap and rework.

Jd, Law

Ba, Political Science