Michael W. Email & Phone Number

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Greater Chicago Area

• Provide strategical and tactical support and coaching to management at multiple sites in the areas of talent acquisition, labor relations, talent management, compliance with state and federal laws (ADA, Title VII.
• Key team member in leading the transition following a decertification from the union in North Chicago, IL in 2012-2013.
• Successfully led committee teams towards the creation of a new employee handbook following union decertification.
• Full cycle recruiting: Develop recruiting strategies for the Great Lakes region leading recruiting efforts for multiple plants for both salary and hourly associates to hire best in class talent.
• Head Military recruiting initiative for the Business Unit.
• New hire Onboarding- Lead training for all new hires reviewing all company policies, benefits, and new hire paperwork, following up with all new hires over the first 120 days of employment.

Naperville, IL

• Provide day to day operational support of HR processes including issue resolution, process enhancements, and maintenance of employee documentation
• Provide outstanding customer service support for inquires related to company benefits, policies, STD & FMLA, etc.
• Guide and coach management on a variety of HR related issues.
• Organizational structure management in SAP- (employment transactions in SAP)
• Core team member for Latin America payroll operations centralization project - Assisted in designing, testing, and implementing SAP Interface, developed interface test scripts, served as an interpreter for conference.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Assisted regional director of human resources and respective client groups to design and implement new business processes that improved internal efficiency, employee data accuracy, and client support.
• Defined and prepared monthly regional HR KPI reports to support functional groups and countries facilitating the management of their respective workforces.
• Improved and streamlined administrative processes within the company
• Gathered, manipulated, and effectively presented data to support business cases.
• Managed employee master data in SAP for Latin America- (Adhoc SAP Reports)
• Prepared and maintained detailed Latin America Headcount for all business units.

• Managed and created client sales proposal and estimates.
• Developed in depth understanding of customer’s needs by analyzing trends and pricing of materials for sales.
• Prepare documentation for international shipments
• Held numerous meetings and teleconferences with prospective clients to negotiate contract details.
• Assisted in managing multi-million dollar annual contracts for international clients such as Alliance and Sony.
• Responded to inquiries from regional sales manager and customers..