Passionate innovator delving into gaps within benefit structures, to curate programs that drive significant savings coupled with superior outcomes, aligning to corporate objectives, the employee value proposition and doing the right thing. Direct oversight, design, and strategy for 50 countries, 172 locations with multiple operating companies in each country. Pioneer in engineering a social determinants of health study through data warehouse information paired with industry trends, and a forward-thinking benefits approach, which ensures Fortive remains at the forefront of holistic employee health and well-being on a global scale.Reduced high-cost claims (over $100k+) mental health care spend by 21% by implementing robust strategy. Created targeted strategy to ensure cost containment for GLP-1 drug class (weight loss drugs/injectables), saving Fortive ~$5M annually. Strategize and socialize initiative to harmonize Fortive benefits across 5 major markets and dozens of operating companies. Global process owner for HR shared services centralization, contributor to bringing global benefits function into centralized model.

Evolution Driver of value-based equitable benefit plans for a global workforce.Designed, developed and launched robust mental health support to all of Fortive’s employees. Engagement with program exceeded north-star expectations in first 12-months. Lead business shift initiatives and alignment of benefits to DEI and tech benchmark.Lead plan design, communications, oversight and implementation for domestic and global health and welfare.

Strategic benefits manager focused on delivering inspiring and innovative design to more than 76,000 global employees. Develop evolution of wellbeing at Nike, defined pillars and comprehensive demographic details to target employee populations and clearly define strategy and areas of need.Engage in strategic partnerships with various employee networks to elevate and activate wellbeing programming to highlight benefit offerings. Obsess over employee experience and ensure that benefits are easy to understand, and communications are concise. Develop values-based strategies to ensure benefits are designed competitively and equitably in a highly collaborative and global environment.Lead the research, analysis, design and development of benefit programs in the Americas - consistent with business priorities and total rewards philosophy – with focus on cost management, wellbeing, emerging industry trends, market competitiveness and legislative requirements.

Excelled at providing proactive management of plans in 42 countries and for 54,000 global employees and 6,000 domestic. Led benefit renewals for global countries, (LATAM, APAC and EMEA regions) provided critique for proposals, served as consultant to enhance global benefits strategy and cost saving initiatives.Architect of corporate global governance strategy to provide a universal understanding of Global Benefit’s goals and objectives, strategies to manage and monitor spend, organization-wide reference for decision making and planning, reference for compliance and market competitiveness. Mitigated risk and increasing global benefit costs by implementing a multinational pooling contract with an expected savings of $1.5M. Provided subject matter expertise and performed deep-dive comparability analysis on benefit programs during M&A due diligence and integration/harmonization process for U.S. and abroad. Oversaw all vendor management, plan design proposals, benchmarking, compliance and communications.Managed Health and Welfare RFPs to identify vendors and project managed implementation of all benefit components.Assisted with development and strategy for onsite wellness clinic and management of programs. Oversaw development and implementation of mandatory health care reform changes. Analyzed risk and claims data by using a data warehouse. Compiled reporting to assess health risks and created mitigation strategy for top 3 chronic diseases.

Acted as a strategic partner and consultant to country managers and stakeholders by improving current benefit levels to be competitive in the global market and to attract and retain valuable employees.Wrote and distributed requests for proposal (RFP) to prospective brokers and vendors, analyzed results and made recommendations to stakeholders.Analyzed budgets to strike a balance between cost to provide benefits, ROI and savings.Collaborated with brokers to enhance benefit offerings, analyzed trends and market data, liabilities and risk.Provided benefits administration to Latin America region (Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina and Brazil), the Philippines and Ghana.Oversaw administration and strategy for multinational pooling agreements. Authored global benefits governance strategy and benefits philosophy for department. Complied with and tracked statutory benefit requirements in global countries and ensured that employee benefits met standards.Designed and delivered robust communication campaigns to employees on current and upcoming benefits.

Assist with a free afterschool program that teaches youth ages 14-21 in-depth digital literacy skills and gives them the opportunity to share their knowledge with the community; equips youth in narrowing the digital divide between people with access to computers and information technology and those without.Assist program instructor through creative, administrative and classroom teaching support.Designed career curriculum to assist students in preparing working resumes and cover letters.Facilitate students to engage in constructive discussion.

Provide human resources, benefits and payroll support to an engineering firm with 25,000 employees around the world.Collaborated on a special team to process firm wide restructuring efforts; partnered with HR managers and legal counsel to complete workforce transitions and layoffsPoint of contact for benefit inquiries across several lines of business and diverse plans and offerings, including expatriate and union employeesManaged Canadian employee inquiries and processing of all Canadian employment transactionsActed as the only bilingual member on my team to provide consistent verbal and written communication to Spanish-speaking employees Participated in interviewing process to select new candidates for the HR service centerDelivered centralized HR support to several offices and HR representatives through shared services modelAssisted with new employee on-boarding and processing

Provided recruitment support to five full-time recruiters across various lines of business and supported candidates around the world.Monitored and set up all pre-employment screeningsConcisely posted jobs to several internal and external gatewaysSet up interviews between candidates and hiring managersDrafted domestic and Canadian offersAppropriately updated and maintained job requisitionsGathered all on-boarding materials for Alaska candidates

Audited all personnel paper work with HRIS (Ultipro)Updated Tax spreadsheets:SIT, SUI and LIT taxes for multiple statesCorrectly processed personnel, I-9, HIPAA, EEO, garnishment and Veteran Assistance Act InformationOrganized all appropriate new hire paper work for start date of corporate employees