Kerrie George, Chrl Email & Phone Number

Oakville, On, Ca

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario

Mississauga, Ontario

Accountable for leading the sourcing, recruitment and onboarding of candidates. Work with a team of people who partner who work directly with our business leaders and HR colleagues to understand and align with key business priorities, and initiatives for talent attraction, both current and future. Accountable for hiring practices, programs and strategies across Canada & USA - social media, internship/campus, ATS implementation, vendor management, employer branding, and background checks.Lead, coach and provide operational direction for the team.

Instrumental in turning around identified "at risk" employee groups. 3 groups moved from "at risk" to an engaged employee group.Key point of contact for management to discuss employee relation issues.Provide coaching to increase management effectiveness.Responsible for communicating and training management on all related HR initiatives.Designed and delivered a national employee and manager orientation program.Manage the enterprise wide Reward and Recognition program. Stepped in to provide leadership to a regional recruitment team. Established recruitment process and procedures and turned around perception of the team within 3 months.Launched career management website for various business units within the organization. Goal of the website: to promote career development and employee retention.Member of re-structuring team for an extensive 100 person enterprise wide reorganization.

Assisted in the development and implementation of the IT Project Management Office.Key resource acting as a neutral third party to work with various business units.Key advisor to the senior management team.Developed and wrote RFP's to engage consultants to provide recruitment expertise.Advised on the design and implementation of a re-organization.Analyzed work flow and work capacity to provide recommendations for task and resource allocation.

Partnered with President and Senior Management to reorganize the business, reduce overhead expenses, rebuild sales team and motivate employees.Provided HR support to multiple lines of business and multiple locations across Canada along with building and maintaining a positive synergy with head office in the US.Large amount of time spent on organizational design, reorganization and downsizing.Managed beginning to end components for training and development initiatives.Solely responsible for managing all employee relation issues.Consult and counsel all levels of management related to employee and organizational issues and concerns.Manage all components of the compensation program.

Managed HR issues associated with business acquisition while accomplishing a smooth transition and retention of all key personnel.Facilitated the seamless integration of 300 employees from an acquisition with an existing customer.Established HR function, including development of policies and procedures, development of a performance management program, an anniversary program, an employee assistance program, and renegotiated cost-effective benefits program that saved the company 15%.

Mississauga, Ontario

Led day to day operations, managing a team of HR Professionals, supporting 350 employees in varying business units. Project Manager for the implementation of an HRIS.Demonstrated effectiveness in providing vision and counsel to steering a cross functional team in establishing and building organizational culture.Worked with lawyers to obtain work visas.Redesigned the existing Employee Satisfaction Survey to bring relatively to the business and the employees to measure employee engagement. Worked with employees and managers to facilitate career management and job enrichment discussions to reduce employee turnover.Canadian member of cross-functional, cross-border team to collaborate and share best practices.Designed leadership training for new and existing managers.Responsible for increasing management effectiveness. Accomplished through regular communication and training of all levels of management.Managed multiple compensation programs and annual salary administration process.Hired 150 new employees and transitioned 45 employees in one year with no service disruption to the business.

Certificate, Human Resources Management

Human Resources Development