Michelle Thayer Email & Phone Number

Schenectady, Ny, Us

United States

As the Employment Offer & Onboarding Leader, I play a critical role in ensuring the successful assimilation of new employees within our organization. This role is essential to creating a positive first impression and setting the foundation for their success within the company. This is achieved by collaborating with cross functional teams to define and refine the onboarding strategy, aligning it with the company's values, goals, and culture while providing guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and positive work environment to the Employment Offer and Onboarding Specialists who ensure each new employee has the best experience possible.

Schenectady, New York, United States

As the Lead HR Specialist – HR Operations Service Delivery I play a strategic role by translating Workday product specifications into a simplified and lean processes; focusing on standardization and compliance; and ensuring the best experience and quality during the onboarding of new and existing GE Employees. I partner with the Onboarding Product Leader and the Service Delivery team to maintain global standards within the onboarding processes and providing a contemporary and positive user experience.

Schenectady, Ny

As the Lead HR Process & Tools Specialist for onboarding operations & technologies, I have worked to contemporize the new hire experience at GE. I work on a global team that develops and maintains onboarding enterprise standards and a configurable cloud-based onboarding tool. This includes how the onboarding process works at a global level and balancing GE standards with business and employee needs. Our goal is to ensure each hire has a seamless onboarding experience and that our COE’s can process each hire quickly and consistently. With GE’s migration to Workday, I served as the wing-to-wing onboarding and recruiting subject matter expert working across 138 countries to ensure all of their requirements were fully captured, I led the design, configuration, testing, the implementation strategy, and the retirement of 2 legacy applications. I leveraged my influencing skills and functioned as a change agent for our regional teams, so they understood we were changing the way we work globally. In addition, I developed and managed the cut-over plan for all recruiting and onboarding activities through go-live. I successfully coordinated all training and communications to our key stakeholders, business partners and in country teams.

Niskayuna, Ny

I was responsible for managing and preparing the Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) for Global Research. I partnered with GE Corporate & the GE Businesses Fair Employment Practices (FEP) Leaders on the AAP process for the company. I reviewed & validated accuracy and clean-up of transaction files for three Global Research sites and ensured all Corporate timelines were met.Supported compliance initiatives by partnering with legal compliance teams globally on review & implementation of compliance training programs from Spirit & Letter to localized requirements, including US-specific HR compliance activities involving government reporting fulfillment, I-9 Reverification and e-Verify support.Additional responsibilities:• Provided customized reports to Senior Leadership and HR Staff on workforce analytics, diversity, compliance training metrics, and learning reports utilizing HR Analytics.• Program Manager for all aspects of Learning & Development program. Worked as a strategic partner with global leaders to ensure essential skills, leadership, and business development courses address specific business needs as well as the needs of individual learners.

Niskayuna, Ny

Program Manager for all aspects of Learning & Development program at GE Global Research. I worked as a strategic partner with global leaders to ensure essential skills, leadership, and business development courses addressed specific business needs as well as the needs of individual learners.Additional responsibilities included, management of Learning Management System, budgeting, facilitator management, development and preparation of course materials, and investigation and implementation of modern learning technologies.Analyzed course feedback to verify quality of content and experience of learners and provide recommendations for improvement. Also provided forecasting reports to ensure demand is met.

Program Manager for all aspects of Learning & Development program at GE Global Research.Primary responsibilities included managing schedule and enrollment of over 100 course offerings a year which were attended by over 1000 students. Managed facilitators, budget, and preparation of course materials. Analyzed course feedback to verify quality of content and experience of learners and provide recommendations for improvement. Also provide forecasting reports to ensure demand is met.Business Administrator for Learning Management System having complete responsibility over all content in the system for Global Research globally. Worked with a global cross-business team to stay abreast of any technical issues, system enhancements, policy changes, roll-out of new initiatives, and to share best practices.

Managed scheduling and enrollment of courses in learning management system. Provided administrative support to the organization supporting three managers and their respective organizations. Responsibilities included managing calendars, booking travel, ordering office supplies, and providing day-to-day support as needed.

Niskayuna, Ny

Provided administrative support to multiple executives and their respective organizations. Position required strong customer service skills, ability to effectively multi-task and communicate clear in a fast-paced environment and have excellent organization skills.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Business Administration