Janice Schutter Email & Phone Number

Minnesota, United States

People Business Partner to Corporate Services, Business Development and Finance.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

• HR Generalist partner to senior business leaders and a collective team of 1000+ employees located across the US• Develop and execute high impact strategies that cultivate highly productive and engaged teams, robust talent pipelines and developmental experiences that transcend through all levels of employees from Senior Vice Presidents through hourly staff • Interview and select top talent to build diverse and inclusive teams, define and leverage compensation strategies to reward performance, retain talent while ensuring parity across teams• Manage headcount resources through internal governance processes and reductions in force while guiding leaders to meet business pressures by leveraging org design principles to align resources• Implement cyclical HR process such talent review, common review. employee experience surveys • Consult on cases being managed by centralized team including employee relations concerns, COVID-19 employee and leader tactics, and inclusion and diversity

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead Talent Management initiatives to support a new operating model for all hourly team members through Vice Presidents in retail operations including best practices to transition and talent plan team members to the new operating models and store structure, communication tools and training, and identification of legal, brand and reputational risks within Talent Management and developed proactive solutions to mitigate• Lead the development of updated interview guides and process for all hourly and executive roles by creating assessment questions based the unique requirements of each role, championed job previews to help improve candidate experience and retention, developed simulations to help assessor understand how a candidate responds in practical situations all the while keep pace with external hiring factors• Developed interactive tools to facilitate a deep dive review of leadership behaviors and business routines to enable leaders to use data in creating action plans that further business objectives across multi-unit territories

Provide HR Generalist support for 300+ headquarters team members in addition to leading talent planning, staffing, development, and team member engagement for the total team that includes hourly team members through Vice Presidents.• Provide consultation for business strategies to minimize team member impact and protect engagement while delivering on key business initiatives. • Identify, interview and select top talent to build diverse and inclusive teams. • Recognize, coach and provide meaningful feedback through active performance management at all levels, and develop leaders to do the same. • Align business strategies with talent strategies to support profitable sales and expense optimization.• Develop and cultivate strong relationships with cross function business partners and leaders. • Implement cyclical HR process such as annual performance review, team member engagement surveys, and benefits open enrollment.• Cultivate and model an open door culture for team members to share ideas and/or concerns. • Investigate and respond to Employee Relations concerns and determine appropriate outcome in accordance ADA, legal requirements and the corrective action policy. • Conduct exit interviews and administer separation agreements.• Facilitate leaves of absence with 3rd party vendor and team members, manage to workers compensation claims. • Make team structure and resource allocation recommendations to business leaders based on team and business needs, and develop communication and implementation strategies.• Effectively leverage compensation strategies to attract and retain top talent.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Project and process management leadership and consultation for Target Canada during startup and opening through transition to run state. • Consulted on strategic business initiatives to minimize team member impact and brand risk as the operating model evolved to meet the changing business landscape. • Created bilingual talent planning tools, resources, and routines for all levels• Consulted on the creation development programs. • Lead a cross functional team to define and develop a systematic processes for documenting, verifying and managing of 300+ provincially required security guard licenses to meet varying legal requirements.• Provided support and assistance in develop Target Canada’s Pay and Benefits strategies during including benefits open enrollment, paid time off, holiday pay benefits and annual performance review for 20,000 stores team members and leaders.• Developed impactful team engagement strategies considering the unique needs of an international team that resulted in the team culture being recognized as a consistent win for Target Canada. • Established a video remote interpretation solution as an alternative to onsite sign language interpretation resulting in thousands of dollars expense savings.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed Stores and Distribution leader performance plans.• Represented field leaders during the creation of the development of an enterprise Talent Management software solution encompassing talent planning metrics, goals and objective templates, and annual performance review modules. • Implemented new staffing models and supported team restructures that resulted in redefined job responsibilities, improved efficiencies and cost savings while maintaining morale and mitigating labor risks.• Identified opportunities to streamline timekeeping processes and lead a cross functional team to define and necessary process improvements.• Supported Crisis Management efforts to create of the Threats of Workplace Violence training including online resources, communication to key partners and disaster response plans in the event of a catastrophic event or location closure• Defined opportuneness and provided recommendations on store segmentation strategies to meet unique needs of low volume stores to increase efficiencies and improve profitability.

• Managed ER investigations while building relationships, influencing partners, and achieving level of service goals.• Lead and participated in several projects including developing reporting and metrics, workflow documentation, training sessions, operating procedures, and long term strategy.• Provided support and training for reporting and technology requests to include analysis of report data, identifying root causes and trend information to be shared with business partners.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Supported HR Generalists at and multiple business units with 400 team members. • Scheduled and coordinated recruitment/placement process to fill both non-exempt and exempt positions, and developed compensation recommendations and relocation packages.• Planned and executed development programs.