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Pine Bluff, Arkansas, US

Circle Pines, Minnesota, US

Arrowhead Engineered Products (Arrowhead) is a global distributor of non-discretionary, mission critical, aftermarket replacement parts for a wide variety of motorized vehicles. Arrowhead offers thousands of non-discretionary parts, including starters, clutches, driveline components, alternators, suspension parts, gaskets and other components to over.

US

• Reporting directly to the CEO and key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for the Human Resources, the Environmental Health & Safety and the General Administration functions for the organization..
• Led the integration activities for our South Korea and China facilitates that included successfully settling a labor strike in China upon close, partnering with local labor officials, employee committees and management.
• Led the talent acquisition process for global key executive roles.
• Partnered with CEO to orchestrate global reorganization of Sales & Marketing Organizations.
• Partnered with the CEO, COO and CFO to define the global ethics code of conduct and facilitate local training and development to support the global roll-out. Successfully launched the Global Ethics Hotline and Foreign.
• Developed global internal employee communications strategy to ensure that all employees understood and were aligned to the long range business objectives, supported our culture and values and supported employee.

Bayport, Minnesota, US

• Reporting directly to the CHRO and a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for developing and executing the Total Rewards strategy in support of the overall long range business plan. Specific areas.
• Partnered with the Board of Director Compensation Committee to redesign the short-term incentive program, long-term executive incentive program and the stock ownership guidelines to better align with business.
• Led the Retirement Strategy to move our post-65 retirees to a private Medicare exchange that immediately realized a $9m savings and reduced our overall long-term liability by $138m. Partnered closely with the BoD, the.
• Led the redesign of the employee engagement survey to better understand how our engagement compares vs. the US benchmark that has informed our Total Reward strategy for the next 3 years.
• Partnered with the CEO on re-launching our Profit Sharing Program to ensure that it would be enterprise wide, sustainable and align to business objectives.
• Re-designed the Talent Management and Succession Planning processes to ensure that leadership had meaningful tools to evaluate and plan for the talent needed to meet the business objectives.

Bayport, Minnesota, US

• Dual reporting directly to the Division President and the Chief Administration Officer at Andersen. A key member of the Silver Line Operating Committee responsible for developing and executing the short-term and.
• Led the successful negotiation of union contracts in the NJ and IL facilities which were ratified upon first vote. Partnered with corporate benefits team to develop strategy for ensuring union medical plans were.
• Partnered with the division President and Operations SVP on restructuring the plant leadership teams to improve the management effectiveness and support the development of the AW culture.
• Successfully completed two restructuring efforts to reduce overall operating expenses and SG&A as part of a longer-range integration plan.
• Restructured the HR business partner function to better align with the capabilities needed to drive leader development and business results.
• Collaborated with enterprise leaders in Finance, Logistics, Sales and Marketing to ensure the alignment of key functional capabilities for the division in talent and succession planning process.

Greater Chicago Area, IL, US

• Reported directly to the EVP – Human Resources and was the Human Resources Business Partner for the North American Commercial Function which included US Sales, US/Canada Marketing and Global Innovation. Led the human.
• Key member of the leadership team for North America that led the successful integration of the Cadbury US/CAD salesforce, NA Marketing team and Global innovation team into the various divisions of the global Kraft.
• Partnered with Sales Leadership Team and Marketing Leadership Team to develop 3 year Strategy Plans for the respective functions. Orchestrated first US Commercial Strategy Development session with SLT and MLT that led.
• Developed and rolled out US Sales mentoring program to identify top talent in the function, define learning goals, facilitate mentoring partnerships and monitor progress.
• Successfully completed two Cadbury reorganizations that lead to a streamlined business unit structure that resulted in clarity of roles and responsibilities between local and global in a highly matrixed organization.
• Led Sales Incentive Plan redesign for the business unit that included working with outside vendors to review best practices, making recommendation on plan design and created implementation and communication plans.

New York, New York, US

• Dual reporting to the Vice President HR for the Americas and the CHRO. Responsible for defining the Human Resources function for all regional site Generalists with direct and indirect supervision of 8 Human Resource.
• Partnered with the SVP, Global Sales to reengineer the function which included: redefinition of roles and responsibilities to include best practice from CLC; conducted assessments of incumbents and made recommendations.
• Responsible for securing $531,000 in training grant money from the State of New Jersey in 2005. Oversaw the coordination and execution of over 30 different training programs.
• Partnered with Regional and Corporate Leadership in facilitating the restructure and communication of the Corporate Annual Incentive Plan and NA Sales Incentive Plan to align metrics to business outcomes.
• Acted as regional liaison to the Corporate Training & Development Department by facilitating Regional Leadership Development Programs, leading Regional Succession Planning efforts, advising local management on.
• Evaluated regional staffing activity and made recommendations to Senior Management. Coordinated and orchestrated reduction in force efforts for NA which included the shutdown of the Toronto Operations Facility.

New York, New York, US

• Reported to the Vice President HR for North America and the Regional Manager Flavors Division. Responsible for Human Resources function for over 450 employees in the US and Canada. Led human resources activities.
• Partnered with the COO on creating the integration plan and identifying key talent from the BBA acquisition and assimilation to the NJ facility. Provided support and coaching to the HR business partner with the closing.
• Responsible for recruiting top talent up to Vice President level, including needs assessment, job description development, negotiating agency contracts, sourcing candidates, qualifying and screening candidates.
• Project lead for North American Non Exempt Performance System, Progressive Discipline program and Paid Time Off program.
• Assisted in developing functional requirements for SAP HR module and defining roles and responsibilities for North America Human Resource Service Center.
• Revised US and Canadian Employee Handbook and led employee change management and communication process for the region.

New York, New York, US

• Acted as a strategic business partner with Aerosoles Corporate and Retail Management.
• Managed day-to-day human resources activities for Corporate Headquarters and 75 store retail chain (650 employees) included recruitment and retention, compensation and performance management, legal issues, special.
• Created and implemented a new hire orientation program to assimilate new hires to Aerosoles culture and developed a 30 and 90-day follow-up program to measure success rate of the program.
• Developed a recruiting program which included a recruiting philosophy for all hiring managers, an interviewing guide and seminar, sourcing of new agencies, setting up on-line recruiting programs and an internal job.
• Assisted with development of a retail store recruiting program that included marketing materials, interviewing guide for store managers, recruitment packages and conducted interview training.
• Assisted with development and executed Retail Customer Service Training (Soles of Service) that specifically addressed in store associates training needs. Developed Catalog Customer Service Training to be aligned with.

Paris, FR

• Managed day-to-day human resources activities for the corporate headquarters and field sales force (700 employees). Coached, counseled, and problem solved employee relations issues with various levels of management.
• Recruited all exempt employees up to and including Director level as well as overseeing the recruitment of all exempt and non-exempt level employees.
• Consulted on all compensation issues with Corporate Human Resources and Management.
• Coordinated and monitored all domestic and international internship and expatriate programs.
• Participated in all MBA and Undergraduate annual recruitment and corporate initiatives.
• Researched, developed, and presented seminars on various topics including interviewing skills, sexual harassment, time management, professionalism in the workplace and diversity.

Paris, FR

• Managed all human resources activities for 2 Administration/Distribution locations with a total of 200 employees, both union and non-union. Responsibilities included recruitment, employee relations, legal issues.
• Weekly responsibility in the New York headquarters for exempt level recruiting predominantly in the Marketing and Sales departments.
• Participated in the development and execution of various sales force and New York Office projects as well as on-campus recruiting for Marketing MBA programs.
• Responsible for all short-term disability, worker’s compensation and FMLA claims for entire division.
• Responsible for coordinating and executing a Management Development program for the Clark management staff which included interviewing skills, motivating skills, coaching skills and conflict resolution.
• Instituted corporate compensation and performance management program.

Paris, FR

• Assisted Vice President in all day-to-day human resources activities for the New York Office and Field Force (400 employees) that included recruitment, employee relations, legal issues, compensation, benefits and other.

• Organized, managed and maintained temporary staffing division and 50+ support staff employees.
• Responsible for screening, interviewing, administering testing and placement of applicants on assignment.
• Evaluated staff performance, analyzed and evaluated client needs to best place employees.
• Directly responsible for a 50% increase in temporary hours over the period of one year.
• Researched and evaluated various health insurers to institute a change in provider in current policy.

Bs, Business Administration

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