Stephanie Cross Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

• Organized a cross business/cross function workstream that developed and drove standard work with clear talent principles to prepare the GE Businesses to orchestrate the hiring of an unprecedented volume within 10 months; filling ~1300 roles to operate as 3 fit for purpose stand-alone companies.• Designed and facilitated org design sessions to challenge GE Leaders to rethink their organizations as stand alone, industry leading public organizations• Championed & designed cross-BU hiring analytics/visualizations that illustrated progress and provoked insights & risk areas. Drove strong daily/weekly management processes for day 1 hiring.• Amplified awareness of movement opportunities by creating new, unprecedented communication streams to GE Corporate employees

Boston, Ma, Us

• Named Head of Talent Technology to centralize strategic plans to modernize the Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Development Tech Stack across Global GE• Benchmarked over 20 external companies to evolve GE to a dynamic skills organization; gained buy in to co-create with business and cross-functional teams• Influential WD customer voice advocating for value-add changes that will raise WD Talent above other HR software--Role paused with GE Separation Announcements--

Boston, Ma, Us

- Developed organization from ground up to support over 4000 on-program employees and over 13,000 interns in ~50 countries. - Developed & standardized transparent tools & processes to gain productivity, improve experiences & modernize program toolkits. - Championed and created software to enable focus on individualized skill focused development, coaching, assignment matching and quality. Deployed and fully adopted globally, “LP Bridge” software continues to serve at the heart of GE’s programs. - Gained external recognition within Leadership Program Associations as Leadership Development Program technology thought leader- Led Workday implementation for UR/LP advocating to have a seat in the design. Gained strong understanding of multiple Workday processes due to LP processes spanning through a full employee lifecycle- Promoted within role 2017

Boston, Ma, Us

- Recruited, led, coached, & developed ~250 ITLPs and assignment leaders - Developed a strong, engaged, remote team: strong communications, improved assignment quality, increased DTLP ownership in program, encouraged more interaction & proactive communication - Managed & met targets on $3.5MM budget- Recognized Gold Medalist GEOS award and an HR Excellence Award

Boston, Ma, Us

- Partnered with HR & Legal Functions to develop a 3-year roadmap that demonstrated a need for growth and a plan to eliminate 100% of HR/Legal legacy applications to vendor, corporate or ERP supported platforms. - Focused on reliability and quality which achieved less than 5 hours of downtime YOY- Managed $1.7MM program budget and $3.7MM base cost budget

Boston, Ma, Us

- Achieved Black Belt certification by removing 98% of defects across all billing cycles- Delivered $264M actual annualized savings (exceeded goal by 20%) by analyzing actual spend drivers and implementing new wireless golden rules across IT.- Led the payroll separation project to stand up new independent payroll system for GE Appliances

Boston, Ma, Us

- Technical Product Leader implementing medium to large scale global systems across Siebel CRM, Six Sigma, Sourcing & Marketing- Achieved Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Boston, Ma, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Information Systems & Accounting

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