Peggy Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Responsibe for guidance, oversight and compliance for the newly created Business Resiliency Department. Devevelop and manage diverse team in a complex governance model for execution of Board sponsored emergency management initiatives. Developed/implemented processes and procedures for budgets, projects, corrective actions following emergency management.

Provided consultative services to Sr. Management in talent acquisition, succession planning, employee relations, compensation and organizational design and structure. Developed and implemented a best practice programs (as assessed by INPO) for Leadership Assessments for all chiefs to include IDP’s in leader PDP’s. Developed and implemented an Executive.

• Responsible for leading the design and development of the Annuities and Mutual Funds Program Management Office.
• Created innovative methodologies and techniques to ensure continuous process improvement for large scale projects.
• Headed up the Omaha expansion project that included redomiciling of Pacific Life from the state of California to Nebraska to obtain $150M premium tax savings.
• Worked closely with the legal, real estate, tax, finance and human resources teams to determine location for Omaha project; negotiated the lease, hired and oversaw the build out of 100,000 sq ft in downtown Omaha for.

• Responsible for the overall guidance and direction of the Operations Management Teams with 300 staff members and a budget of $33M.
• Led the #1 Call Center and Operations in the industry (as rated by DALBAR) by seamlessly supporting $10B in annual variable annuity and mutual funds sales with $60B in assets under management, 600,000 contract owners.
• Responsible for developing creative strategies and innovative employee programs for attracting, motivating and retaining quality management and staff to support 22 different types of products and 17 different types of.
• Formulated long range plans to provide excellent service and efficient technological business solutions to improve processing to strengthen our competitive position.

• Responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining a tactical infrastructure within the Annuities Technology Department to include the purchase, customization and installation of the McAfee system to track.
• Built a customer centric Desktop Support function for both internal and external users (including 30,000 registered reps) and created a software integration group responsible for conducting testing and installation to.
• Developed & implemented a purchasing system to include a database that manages all software/hardware purchases, maintenance agreements & licensing requirements.

• Responsible for the creation and start-up of the Pacific Life Academy entailing: researching successful Corporate Universities, developing & presenting a business plan to the Board of Directors, obtaining $5M funding.
• Established a model that enabled each Division to develop a “College”. Each college was represented by Sr. Management, whose responsibility was to provide oversight to committees, i.e., curriculum, ETP state funding.
• Insured a cohesive interface to gain consensus from all Divisions by providing leadership, guidance and overall vision to a staff of designers, facilitators and support personnel in delivering “value added” training.

• Responsibilities included providing overall direction, guidance and leadership for recruitment, staffing, executive search, advertising, job posting, employee relations, manpower and succession planning, organizational.