Joann Johnson Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Focused on Office and Business based positions: CEO's, COO's, CFO's - all C-Suite Executives, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, General Managers, Sales Managers, Accounting, Administrative Assistants, Executive Assistants, Sales, Sales Support, Customer Service, Office Managers, Receptionists, etc..801.441.6693 - joann@recruitingconnection.orgPresident's Club Winner - 2021

Specializing in the recruitment for both Locum Tenens and Permanent Placement of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants nationwide. Recruiting and matching the perfect healthcare provider to the right position and finding the right position for each healthcare provider whether that be a permanent full time position or a short or long term locum tenens assignment."The most satisfying aspect of my career has been helping to provide healthcare across the country in both temporary and permanent placements. Making a great match and putting the right provider in the right practice setting to provide needed patient care to a community is very rewarding."

Nationwide

Responsible for:**Working with healthcare facilities across the nation**Recruiting physicians for temporary placement**Placement of healthcare providers in facilities of all sizes**Maintaining multiple locum tenens ongoing assignments

Selected to move from sales recruiting to IT to lead a corporate front office operating system implementation. We were currently on a "legacy" system and looking to move to an already developed type of a "contact management for healthcare recruitment and staffing" type of a solution.**Began with an implementation for one of our larger Divisions. I was the Project Director for this working as the business liason and leading the IT Project Team. **Led 2 additional front office solution changes with other business lines**Participated in and led many additional IT Projects as the business liason or representative. I was responsible to "teach" IT about the business and bring the department closer to the needs of a sales organization.**Developed and implemented the Departments first formal "Change Control Policy and Procedure" that was strictly adhered to and followed and I chaired the committee for the first 9 months.**Worked with newly acquired Divisions to help integrate them into our IT environment by learning their business and then relaying that business knowledge to the IT department.**Chaired both a Senior IT Steering Committee and a "pre" IT Steering Committee Project review committee. I was responsible to gather business requirements and work with the business leaders to present their request to the committee.**Developed an inter-department electronic newletter to aid in continuing education to the IT department about the business and also increase more knowledge about the "developer" sitting next to you!**Was the communication liason from IT to the rest of the corporation. Helped represent what IT really contributes and what they do on a daily basis as well as educating IT about the business and why they request what they do.

Responsible for leading the corporations Lean initiative across all business lines. I facilitated over 35 events including Value Stream Mapping, Process Mapping, Kaizen Events, Work Out's and Voice of the Customer. Initiated a corporate tracking mechanism to measure results on a continuing basis. **Exceeded 1st & 2nd year goals by over 300%**Streamlined processes and increased speed of delivery to customers across all business lines. **Responsible for mentoring and developing 18 individuals across the organization as co-facilitors and facilitators.**Standardized processes in many areasI was chosen to lead the initiative over outside consultants based on my knowledge of the business and relationships with those in the business. **I was selected to do a presentation to the corporations "elite" group of clients at a yearly "Symposium" event outlining our successes with Lean and how it has improved the organization.Comments from my Direct Supervisor, CIO and Vice President include:"Thanks for doing such a great job and making all of us look so good.""I can't imagine any Kaizen event ever going that well. I thought you led fantastically. I thought the outcome was absolutely perfect. Very much impressed with your leadership style, you're being able to lead that group and get everybody to a great outcome. I thought you did a fantastic job, very stellar."

**Healthcare Staffing and Recruiting**Recruiting physicians in all specialty areas**Recruitment of healthcare providers**Process Improvement**Management**Financial Management**Budget and business planning

Overall responsibility for multiple medical specialty sales and recruitment teams.**Promoted to Director in 2003 after many successful years as an online sales representative, sales manager and process manager**Responsible for productivity, growth, development and budgeting for teams generating $19,000,000 to $25,000,000 in annual revenue.**Training and development of placing managers, assistant managers and managers. **Strategic planning, market trend analysis, long term planning, advertising planning and market research**Sales contest creation, development and implementation including rewards and incentivesDuring this time I was also responsible for Process Improvement Iniatives and Front Office System Implementation Projects**Locum Tenens Division representative for new Front Office Operating System Development --Including leading a "database clean-up" project in preparation**Led a team of 3 individuals in Division wide process improvement with many measurable results**Chosen by the COO to lead a corporate project to standardize the Housing Process

**Revenue of $9,000,000 to $12,000,000 annuallyGrew gross margin by 152% within 2 years*Managed a team of 15-18 sales and recruiting representatives and administrative support personnel*Turned a team of "give it away" to a team of "how high is the margin?"*Lost some along the way but rebuilt to one of the strongest teams in the Division. In the CEO's words: "You have the most vibrant team in Salt Lake - - a real tribute to the way you are leading and motivating. Keep it up!"*Recruited and retained top talent for each sales team

-Revenue of $9,000,000 - $14,000,000 annually-Exceeded budgeted revenue by $500,000 in first yearAlso held positions of Sales Training Manager, Special Projects Manager, Recruiting and Placement Manager and Standardized Process Manager while managing the above sales teams.

-Revenue of $10,000,000 - $13,000,000 annually-Spearheaded team restructure from a regionalized recruiting approach to a more nationalized recruiting approach. This aided in creating a greater sense of urgency, increased competitiveness with sales healthcare recruitment personnel & helped us increase market share by over 18%.Additional responsibilities while managing the Primary Care team included Housing and Licensing Team Leader, Regional Corporate Client Account Development, Managed two office closures and integrations and coordinated efforts to split divisions between two offices.