Nicole Devore, Mba Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

New York, New York, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Recruited to serve as a Senior Strategic Human Resources Executive charged with directing all human resources initiatives including HR development, management, and policy and procedure administration for all 8 locations and 150 employees. • Lead and oversee total reward, health and welfare programs, talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, organizational development, and leadership/staff development.• Serve as a strategic business partner to the CEO and the senior leadership team in aligning HR initiatives and strategies with the overall business objectives. • Report to the Board of Managers through quarterly board meetings the key components of HR initiatives, developments in the workforce, and KPIs.• Evaluate, establish, and implement benefit offerings to develop fair and competitive programs. • Spearheaded an HDHP and wellness program to reduce overall company spending by approximately 15%. • Managed the full annual cycle of the benefits program, evaluated renewal options, developed competitive cost-sharing methods, coordinated open enrollment meetings/elections, and handled ongoing benefits administration and compliance. • Recognized for implementing an HRIS to reduce time spent on manual processes related to payroll, time and attendance, and talent acquisition. (This implementation reduced our time spent on these processes by approximately 30%, reduced the cost spent on these services by over 50%, and enhanced the employee experience related to all human resources data.)• Restructured the company’s ineffective annual performance appraisal process by ensuring that employees' performance goals and/or key job responsibilities were tied back to the companies’ overall objectives and are then used as a key component of determining an employee’s variable compensation.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Served as a key member of the US management team and HR leader to US Operations with dual reporting to the US Managing Director and Regional Head of HR.• Led and oversaw a team of HR professionals and restructured day-to-day operations including recruitment, compensation, benefits, performance management, employee relations, and payroll to improve strategic alignment, efficiency, and effectiveness of HR Operations.• Facilitated a benefit and compensation study to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness of the compensation and benefits structure to attract, retain and reward employees; review resulted in a change of benefit consulting service providing a savings of 68%.• Consolidated and implemented an HRIS system to create efficiency and reduce redundant work for the HR team as well as managers and employees.• Streamlined and right-sized the performance-based incentive compensation process for all employees in the organization ensuring that the program focused on individual performance, the overall local company as well as the business unit.• Established, managed, and maintained the HR budget for the US Operations to ensure savings of at least 20% year over year.

• Streamlined all variable incentive plans for the region by reviewing the current structures, researching the local markets, creating analytics to justify updates, and implementing, and communicating to the local countries.• Ensured that salary reviews, bonus payments, benefit changes for the region were all processed in line with the companies worldwide guidelines.• Analyzed the market competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of our compensation and benefit plans. • Oversaw the design and administration of compensation programs including base pay, variable pay, merit, compensation planning, and market analysis with a focus on continuous improvement.• Gathered requirements, fully executed an RFP, and led the implementation of a regional HRIS system for all eleven (11) countries within the region. • Developed and implemented a systemized process for tracking headcount across the region to be used for each country’s long-term workforce development plan while continuously managing the process and data results following the implementation.• Designed, developed, and implemented HR KPIs to measure whether the HR Department is accomplishing its objectives that are in line with MAN’s business strategy.

Houston, Tx, Us

• Directed and oversaw a 3-person Human Resources staff which consisted of an HR and Benefits Specialist, Human Resource Business Partner, and an HR Coordinator.• Supervised the employee relation’s process with a focus on strict confidentiality to ensure that all cases or complaints are being closed timely and that they are evenly distributed amongst the HR team.• Partnered with our brokers to manage the benefits renewal process to ensure that appropriate decisions were made for both the employees and the company. Confirmed that all plans remained in compliance with the Affordable Care Act and that appropriate documentation and approvals were obtained for our internal audit process.• Verified that all benefit plans were compliant with government regulations and that our company was performing our activities in compliance with our plan documents.• Devised and implemented detailed procedures for processing Leaves of Absence, hourly eligibility processing, and processing benefits for eligible corporate team members.

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Houston, Texas, Us

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Mba, Human Resource Management

B.S., Math Education