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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Mooresville, Nc, Us

• Provide strategic leadership in shaping Lowe’s Strategy on University and Military Recruiting efforts across the enterprise, encompassing internships, SkillBridge, Entry level Full-time, community college, and high school programs. • Responsible for creating specialized business line recruiting strategies with Executive Leadership to impact their orgs efforts on hiring early and emerging talent across the enterprise. • Execution of Lowe’s hiring conferences, which are focused on recruiting diverse candidates. These events are large-scale events, with 5000 plus candidates at most conferences. • Lead a team of recruiters that source, hire, and manage early talent, internship programs, and military community hiring for all Lowe's corporate, field, and supply chain functions.• Implemented new ATS processes specific to university and military recruiting while implementing new ATS for enterprise. • Manage the partnership with Government Affairs to collaborate with national and state legislators and government officials in order to advocate for Lowe’s Military initiatives, including providing guidance on military transition.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Develop and execute Lowe's enterprise military recruiting strategy, identifying key recruitment resources, and channeling talent into Lowe's. Design and drive the military recruitment strategy that allows Lowe's to develop top talent from within the organization and build an infrastructure for succession planning.• Creation and Management of the Department of Defense (DoD) SkillsBridge Program to provide internships and dedicated roles for transitioning veterans within Lowe's Corporate, RDCs, and Stores.• Liaison to business partners on military initiatives internally and externally to further the Lowe's Military Brand. • Serve as the National Talent Committee Leader on Lowe's Veteran Business Resource Group. • Leverage and drive recruiting strategy through branding to include military content, branding, videos, and career sites.• Manage relationships with veteran transition programs and support National Veteran/Military Partnerships with Community Relations. • Provide overarching national veteran recruiting support across all regions to support localized veteran hiring for all Lowe's locations. • Provide training programs for hiring managers and recruiters to better acclimate them to military terminology and translate military assignments into understandable corporate language.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Develop and execute Lowe's overall military recruiting strategy, identifying key recruitment resources, and channeling talent into Lowe's. Design and drive the military recruitment strategy that allows Lowe's to develop top talent from within the organization and build an infrastructure for succession planning.• Creation and Management of the Department of Defense (DoD) SkillsBridge Program to provide internships and dedicated roles for transitioning veterans within Lowe's Corporate, RDCs, and Stores.• Liaison to business partners on military initiatives internally and externally to further the Lowe's Military Brand. • Serve as the National Talent Committee Leader on Lowe's Veteran Business Resource Group. • Leverage and drive recruiting strategy through branding to include military content, branding, videos, and career sites.• Manage relationships with veteran transition programs and support National Veteran/Military Partnerships with Community Relations. • Provide overarching national veteran recruiting support across all regions to support localized veteran hiring for all Lowe's locations. • Provide training programs for hiring managers and recruiters to better acclimate them to military terminology and translate military assignments into understandable corporate language.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Developed, Built, and Manage a team of 19 recruiters who provided recruiting support to Lowe’s Supply Chain Network, including corporate and field roles.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

•Responsible for managing two corporate recruiting programs (Technology Campus and Military Recruiting) to include: management of events, candidate experience, coordination of business partners, and community relations.Military Recruiting•Create company-wide strategies for Veteran and Military Spouse Recruiting to include: transition programs, base relations, branding, community relations, and upscale/development. •Partner and manage projects as part of a cross-functional team that has launched national military appreciation programs (externally and internally) to include: Honor Our Military Every Day, Camo Vest, Military Coins, and events.•Communicate results and expectations of recruiting and veteran programs to Enterprise VP’s, Senior VP’s, and VP’s, on a regular cadence. on recruiting and veteran programs. •Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with organization and business partners across the country to include: USO, AMVETS, Veteran Bridge Homes, Government Agencies, and military bases. Campus Recruiting Technology•Overseeing the recruiting of 45 interns and 100 full-time campus technology students from 14 schools across the country while managing , to include coordination of a contractor and r 2 recruiters. •Manage the full-life cycle recruitment process, including sourcing, interviewing, coordinating interviews with hiring managers, composing compensation business cases, extending offers, and onboarding. •Responsible for managing and coordinating Lowe’s Technology internship program, which is ranked 5th in the nation by Indeed.com. •Utilize Jira to monitor candidate progress, and metrics, to include writing JQL for a comprehensive recruiting dashboard.•Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with business partners, including SVP’s and VP’s. •Utilize data analytics to drive corporate strategy for campus recruiting of high potential schools to include diversity, location, and deliver results to leadership.

Launched in 2011 as the 100,000 Jobs Mission, the Veteran Jobs Mission brings together companies committed to hiring U.S. military veterans and military spouses. More than 300 companies have joined and collectively hired over 900,000 U.S. military veterans and military spouses. The private sector organizations are continuing to increase their focus on retention and career development. This includes supporting veterans and military spouses as they adapt to the workplace by establishing sponsorship and on-boarding training programs, as well as industry-based coalition subgroups to increase collaboration among members. Visit veteranjobsmission.com.

Chesapeake, Virginia, Us

•Specialize in recruiting top candidates in the Retail Management profession nationwide. •Manage the full-life cycle recruitment process including sourcing, interviewing, coordinating interviews with hiring managers, compensation business cases, offer and onboarding. •Responsible for providing staffing support for around 2500 stores including 3 critical metropolitan markets. •Utilize Excel to monitor candidate progress, business metrics, and corporate staffing needs. •Used data and application tracking system to pinpoint qualified candidates and coordinate marketing efforts for hiring events nationwide. •Wrote and Developed compensation business cases including regional, district and store metrics to obtain competitive compensations for internal and external candidates. •Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with business partners including two Vice Presidents, fourteen Regional Directors and their Regional HR Managers across the enterprise as a best practice.•Developed and Lead LinkedIn training with regions across the United States to include creating a profile, searching candidates and marketing. •Assisted in the development/ design of corporate hiring documents including one-page quick guide and in-depth book on hiring utilizing Windows Publisher and Adobe Photoshop.

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Specialized in recruiting top candidates in the Information Technology profession nationwide in the areas of Information Security, Cloud Technology, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Project Managers for a large financial institution. • Managed the full cycle recruitment process including sourcing, identifying, qualifying, and interviewing candidates for contract, contract to hire, and permanent placements.• Reviewed, reformatted and presented resumes to hiring managers while providing consultative guidance on market and candidate trends.• Screened candidates to obtain work history, education, training, job skills, and salary requirements and qualify for the respective job requisition.• Coordinated applicable background investigations and onboarding processing with administrative staff. • Participated in community volunteer events such as Special Olympics North Carolina and participated in service projects to benefit both the Samaritans Purse as well Second Harvest Food Bank of the Carolinas.

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

•Organized a joint effort between business leaders, store leaders, and developers to create an effective way to efficiently create work schedules for associates through an algorithm that took in effect availabilities, store traffic, production, and customer needs to maximize profitability. •Participated in weekly, monthly, and quarterly meeting with district managers to report department status and recommend measures to improve department probability. •Identified critical gaps between current and intended business strategy, assessed risks through extensive analysis of operations, financial and data, and developed systematic approaches to improvements for departments. •Maximized profitability through business analysis, KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), P&L (Profit & Losses), and metrics through the creation of reports utilizing Excel (pivot tables, lookups, and KPI’s).•Provided exceptional leadership as the guide for store planning, product management, customer relations, and execution of corporate and vendor plan-o-grams. •Coordinated with contractors and engineers to remodel a 10,000sqft premium footwear store while upholding corporate standards for customer service. •Directed and coordinated day-to-day operational aspects of the business to increase profitability•Managed product shrinkage through analyzing P&L, KPI’s and inventory metrics reducing shrink by $200K. •Provided category management including vendor relationship, product ordering and developing an attractive portfolio of products for customers. •Ensured that the company’s customers receive a high level of support and service with their questions and concerns.•Promoted rapidly through a series of increasingly responsible management positions based on strong financial results, team development, problem-solving and leadership performance. •Managed 40 employees including recruiting, training, development & leadership

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

• Coordinated efforts between reporting team, business owners, and store level management to create reports that helped analyze inventory to increase inbound shipment turn around, reduce waste, and optimize customer service. • Conferred with supply chain planners to optimize reporting processes to assist forecast demand, create supply plans, and ensure availability of materials or products.• Reduced product delivery times by 30% by streamlining freight processing from door to floor inside departments. • Delivered 15% productivity improvement by optimizing operation platforms which produced higher levels of productivity while lowering labor cost. • Managed a team of five employees within the receiving department and managed a budget of 4.5 million dollars in product movement. • Designed and implemented product claims and reverse logistics program

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Served in the United States Air Force as an Aerospace Ground Equipment Journeymen, maintaining a fleet of Aerospace Ground Equipment. • Obtained extensive leadership training and experience. • Coordinated daily delivery of Ground Support Equipment with the flight crews. • Specialized Training: Hydraulics, Diesel Engines, Gas Turbine Engines, Air Conditions, High Voltage Electronics, Leadership, Diversity, Communication.