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Milwaukee, WI, US

Milwaukee, WI, US

Germantown, WI, US

Amsterdam, North-Holland, NL

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Manage $10MM Health and Welfare plan for 500+ employees, evaluating plan competitiveness, ensuring successful administration and compliance.
• Conduct plan analysis for health, retirement, and payroll for Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Conduct annual, quarterly, and ad-hoc market analysis and pricing of 300+ jobs to evaluate competitiveness, stability, internal equity, and engagement.
• Architect compensation structures and deliver strategic guidance to upper management to support workforce recruiting, engagement, and retention.
• Manage $60MM Payroll administration, overseeing semimonthly payroll processing to ensure on-time and accurate delivery.
• Ensure federal and state compliance for benefit plan admin, pay transparency laws, leave of absence admin, and payroll tax.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Managed $13MM Health and Welfare plan for 1,200+ employees, analyzing program administration and market competitiveness.
• Maintained 20+ vendor relationships, including assessment of customer service delivery, issue resolution, and spend analysis; Negotiated savings and prevented over-billing.
• Created RFP to bid out several ancillary well-being programs, including caregiver, fertility, and identify theft benefits, to increase engagement and retention. Financial analysis concluded a 150% ROI in soft cost.
• Managed and administered Benefit Plans and Leaves of Absence in accordance with applicable federal, state, and company-defined rules, regulations, and requirements.
• Managed annual compensation programs, including bonus plans, employee merit increases, and Profit Sharing, ensuring programs are compliant, timely, and communicated with excellence.
• Completed job market pricing, review benchmark measures, mitigate pay compression, reduce job redundancy, and keep salary ranges accurately aligned.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Primary benefits liaison to employees, plan administrators, and insurance carriers; Ensured compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and reporting requirements.
• Maintained employee Leaves of Absence in accordance with applicable federal, state, and company-defined rules, regulations, and requirements.
• Maintained job profile catalog, used by business leaders when making compensation decisions.
• Audited and ensured timely, accurate processing of employee lifecycle transactions within Workday (new hire onboarding, benefit elections, job changes, time off, leave of absence, and termination).
• Created job aids and instructional guides for Workday business processes.
• Created and lead educational sessions to further develop employee skills and knowledge.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Point of contact for employees seeking counsel and advice on benefits, compensation, wellness, recruiting, and performance management.
• Investigated vendor claim issues and act as a liaison between the employee and benefit vendors.
• Executed processes involved in the employee life cycle, including campus/internal job postings, offer letters, background checks and FINRA clearance, onboarding procedure and orientation, benefit changes, and.
• Managed and administered the Tuition and Designation Reimbursement Plan.
• Researched best practices and propose ways to automate and/or optimize manual or ”clunky” procedures.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Facilitated open and close store procedures; Processed include cash drawer balance, inventory tracking, daily sales performance, product display maintenance.
• Operational lead for returns, exchanges, searches, and other sales functions.
• Resolved customer complaints.
• Trained new hires and further developed sales team.