Linda Woolf Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma

Cambridge, Ma

• Support the ESC talent pipeline.- Collaborate with the HR BP and LT to uphold the recruiting strategy plan.- Align with the Recruiting Team to manage the recruitment process from start to finish.- Helped to design and implement a virtual onboarding plan during the pandemic, including ensuring delivery of IT hardware and support to all new hires. - Manage the Employee Referral program for the Cambridge, Boston, and South SF sites. • Designed and implemented virtual events through the pandemic. • HR Coordinator role for the ESC. Coordinate and facilitate new employee orientation, review site benefits, point of contact for questions, manage commuter profiles, ensure all logistics are coordinated. • Shadowing our HR BP and HR Coordinator, focusing on comp analysis, commuter benefits, and misc HR tasks.• Researched and developed a culture plan with the HR BP and providing next step recommendations.• Managed all aspects of several ESC Offsite Events. Responsibilities include scout/book locations, meeting agenda, budget mgmt., guest speakers, F&B details, travel accommodations and team building events. • Provide comprehensive admin support to the LT and backup support to staff. Assistance provided to maximize time and efficiency throughout the organization. Apply knowledge to act as a business resource on Merck’s standard operating procedures. - Administrative tasks included calendar maintenance, coordination of travel arrangements, maintenance of the department distribution lists, generate expense reports, creation of POs.• Manage the office operations of the ESC site. - Tasks included office move coordination, facility service updates, work with the PC Center on equipment orders and issues, order site supplies and act as the liaison to Operations Lead and security staff.• Collaborate with LT members to ensure that business operations are effective and aligned to the department’s objectives.• Coordinate department communications for distribution.

Boston, Ma

• Provision and maintenance of business operations. Collaboration with team members to ensure that business operations are effective and aligned to the departments objectives.• Preparation and maintenance of effective business operation meetings including Leadership Team meetings, Document Review Committee meetings and Scorecard Reviews.• Objective lead for the department’s culture section. Focusing talent acquisition, employee development and targeted culture goals. • Provide assistance and input with the organizations portfolio process. Collect and store project data into the automated system within the department’s team space.• Maintain meeting minutes and publication through email and our team space. Follow up with tasks that need to be completed by advising the appropriate members of the Leadership team and their staffs, as required. • Organization of presenters, layout of agendas and follow up with the Leadership Team on the proposed agendas.• Stewardship for the HR information for +50 organizational employees. Responsibilities include maintenance of profiles, management of organizational changes and liaison with HR for hire-to-retire processes.• Build and support the Scientific Informatics talent pipeline• Collaborate with the Scorecard Lead to develop a recruiting strategy plan for the year.• Align with HR Recruiting Team to follow the formal recruiting process.

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the Associate Vice President, Scientific Informatics and backup support to staff. Assistance provided in an effort to maximize the time of the Associate VP and promote efficiency throughout the organization. Apply knowledge to act as a business resource on Merck’s standard operating procedures. • The administrative tasks included daily calendar maintenance, coordination of travel arrangements, maintenance of the department’s distribution lists, preparation of expense reports, organization of the department’s business operation meetings and agendas, creation of Purchase Orders as required, and assistance with onboarding new employees/contractors.• Coordinate departmental communications for distribution via our team space and email. Ensure departmental documentation and communications are posted and distributed in a timely manner. Continue to work with the team stewards on document clean up and reorganizing the team space for efficiency.• Organization of the Leadership Team and organization wide events throughout the year. Managing all the details with no discrepancies, including meeting agendas, logistics and facilitation.• Manage the operations of the Boston Atlantic Avenue site. • Tasks included facilitation of monthly site meetings, handle move/equipment coordination, provide occupants with updates and progress reports, act as the liaison to Boston facilities staff and Security.

• Project Manager for Organization Rewards and Appreciation Program designed for staff to acknowledge performance by colleagues and peers.• Coordination of organization-wide recruiting and communications activities across multiple departments. • Facilitator for the Information Services College Recruiting Team. • Stewardship for the HR information for +100 organizational employees. • Stewardship for +$50M organizational financial / budgetary information. • Coordination of organization-wide communications. • Active member of the Non-Exempt Job Evaluation Committee.• Administrative support for executive management for the organization. • Support for organizational change management for process and technology changes.

• Administrative support for multiple departments. Responsibilities included all administrative and business tasks including general business and headcount analytics, coordination of meeting schedules, travel arrangements, expense report submission and tracking, coordination of department meetings. • Financial oversight for multiple departments. Responsibilities included monitoring of all budget activities, reconciliation of discrepancies, disbursement vouchers and expense reports.• Coordination and scheduling for Information Services-wide event of 1998

• Provide customer service. Provided timely and courteous resolution to customer needs.• Submission of warranty claims to corporate office• Training of new employees• General office management responsibilities including organization of payroll and inventory and data entry

Masters, Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Bachelor Of Science, Mass Communications

Mass Communications (Broadcast Journalism)