Terry Snodgrass Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas , Texas, Us

In my role as a Human Resources Business Partner at Varsity Brands, I serve as a strategic advisor and consultant to business leaders. By bridging the gap between HR strategy and business objectives, I ensure that talent initiatives support the overall goals of the organization. My responsibilities include, driving organizational effectiveness, talent management, and employee engagement. I collaborate with leadership to influence people strategies, facilitate change management, and contribute to long-term business success. Have direct impact on optimizing team performance, enhancing leadership capabilities, and building a future-ready workforce to prepare for significant business growth.

Plano, Texas, Us

• Ted Talk speaker at the 2021 BigHR event. Topic: Give yourself grace to run your own race. • Project work assisting CHRO Partners Founder to create a Diversity & Inclusion resource guide for Sr. HR leaders to use as a starting point to build or reset their company's D&I strategy for the Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging 2020 BigHR event.

Hyderabad, India , Us

Developed and led the execution of the North America engagement and retention strategy in support of the business for a high growth digital transformation organization. Served as strategic business partner to the business and senior leadership team across US, Canada, and Mexico. Partnered with COEs in support of HR strategic initiatives. Responsibilities included employee engagement, talent management, change management, and organizational effectiveness. Led a global team of HR Business Partners and Senior Associates.Accomplishments included:• Developed the engagement, performance management, development, DEI and wellbeing plans for North America to meet the growth needs of the business.• Built a new global internal mobility process to support talent and business growth. • Created a new employee onboarding and cross-functional connection process and implementing a new orientation program.• Conducted focus groups in North America to understand talent needs, gathering the data and insights and making engagement and retention recommendations to senior leadership.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Responsible for developing, executing and leading the US HR strategy to align with the overall business strategy. Served as trusted advisor and partner to the US senior leadership team. Built new systems and processes that enabled company growth through its talent. Managed the overall functions of HR including, talent acquisition, talent management, engagement, performance management, employee relations, change management and total rewards.Accomplishments included:• Developed a short-term HR plan based on business priorities, including, implementing a new paid time off plan for employees based across multiple states and a performance management and appraisal process for the new fiscal year.• Created the HR build strategy, including, talent acquisition, talent management, total rewards and learning & development.• Built the US team's job architecture and compensation structure to support the company's core values and business needs and align globally to support future succession planning.• Designed policies and processes and staffed the new onshore delivery team to allow for scalable growth of the US operations.• Integrated the US team onto the proprietary HRIS platform in partnership with the global IT team.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Responsible for leadership and oversight of employee relations and guest engagement in a newly created HR role. Led, inspired and developed a cross-functional team of supervisory and non-supervisory talent and managed a $1.4M budget. Partnered with Operations leaders on team member and guest strategies in support of off-premise growth. Delivered actionable team member and guest insights to senior leadership.Accomplishments included:• Directed teams through transition and change initiatives in partnership with talent effectiveness leader.• Developed a 3-year strategy to drive an improved and efficient team member and guest experience through insights, innovation and a new system.• Led a cross-functional initiative to identify root causes and solutions for new in role restaurant leader turnover. Executing solutions to drive reduced turnover.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Responsible for building a new, centralized employee relations function and leading a team of 6. Developed strategy, processes, metrics, training plan, change management initiatives and insights. Role expanded to include HR Business Partner to HR and Ops Services leadership teams and business units.Accomplishments included:• Became an integral HR Business Partner and thought leader, facilitating talent calibrations and talent management discussions, succession planning, leading critical roles and pay disparity projects, and collaborating with senior HR director in officer succession planning resulting in a 3% increase in team member engagement in F19.• Accomplished a 3-4 day investigation resolution rate with consistency in processes and a better team member experience by partnering with leaders to foster a positive, inclusive environment in restaurants. • Recognized by President of Chili’s as changing lives “by creating an unstoppable team supporting our operators. She has made their lives easier because she treats Managers as her Guests and they in turn take care of theirs. She demonstrates Every Guest Counts in all she does.”• Implemented monthly insights to brand executive team based on investigation and restaurant manager exit survey data. Resulted in bringing Culture of Inclusion development and training to business leaders in partnership with Diversity and Inclusion and Learning and Development boosting team member engagement.• Led Best You project team and strategy with objective to bring the 5 pillars of Wellbeing resources to hourly team members. Drove increased participation to the Employee Assistance Program in 2019 over prior 2 years.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Led a corporate Talent Acquisition team of 2 and managed full life cycle recruitment process. Sourced, identified and recommended talented individuals from a diverse community of candidates to meet staffing needs for the Restaurant Support Center. Accomplishments included:• Partnered with business leaders, HR Business Partners and compensation to understand business, people needs and compensation recommendations. Developed corporate recruitment and employment branding strategies resulting in hiring an average of 90 team members annually while sustaining 10-15% >1 year turnover.• Elevated Brinker International’s partnership with LinkedIn to design a robust career page and updates that increased social media engagement and reach, Talent Brand Index (increase 1-2%) and follower engagement (organically added 10k new followers with >30%).• Developed the BrinkerJobs career site in partnership with cross-functional project team and outside vendor that resulted in an enhanced candidate experience and a new platform to promote the Brinker brand.• Contributed to a new hourly hiring practice, funnel and interview guide that led to improved 90-day turnover for the Chili’s brand.• Planned and managed annual recruiting budget which includes recruitment sources, LinkedIn renewal, agency fees and vendor contracts.• Enhanced vendor management experience after completion of RFP to streamline agency partners for consistency, quality and mark-up expense reduction.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Progressed to larger property to serve as facilitator and Senior Training Specialist, contributing to recruiting, retention, on-boarding, orientation, professional development, engagement, employee relations, and administration of benefits.Accomplishments included:• Constructed a leadership training course based on the Jon Gordon book, “The Energy Bus” to support employee engagement survey improvement goals and maintain a positive work culture.• Designed and facilitated professional development programs and elevated participation in courses, increased number of internal advancement opportunities and improved 90-day turnover rates.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Served as Recruitment & Training Manager and leader, facilitator, internal communications specialist and volunteer lead, contributing to recruiting, retention, on-boarding, orientation, professional development, employee engagement, employee relations, community relations, and administration of benefits. Strategic advisor to the business leaders. Led, inspired and developed a team of 3 in recruiting, training and development, and HR generalist.Accomplishments included:• Created an employee engagement environment that led to the region’s 2011 and 2012 First Place Best Places to Work win in the Very Large Company category.• Introduced a Supervisory Network Group and improved customer service scores by creating events focused on improving communication and service.• Sourced resources to build a network of talented candidates for various positions and staffing levels in the gaming and hospitality industry while also improving hiring effectiveness and staff retention.• Hired an average of 120 employees each year and attained 1-3% YOY improvement in 90-day turnover.• Achieved grant approval from Caesars Foundation for a $75K donation to the Junior League of Reno’s project with building a Universally Accessible Park, the first of its kind in northern Nevada.

• Instructed up to 30 students with special needs in math and English while working to maintain a positive classroom environment for special education classes.• Developed Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students that included transition planning for post-secondary employment or education and attended Annual Review and Dismissal meetings.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Searched, qualified, interviewed, and placed highly skilled consultants and contractors on project teams for the South Central Consulting Applications region.• Partnered with Oracle Consulting managers to gather requirements, project specifications, and required skill sets needed to place qualified Oracle consultants and/or external contractors in the right positions.• Worked with offshore and international resources and divisions to assist with US staffing needs.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Full life cycle IT recruiting. Developed and fostered client relationships through phone interviews and on-site visits, gathering information of staff needs and specifications from client managers. • Assessed job needs and setup interviews with well-aligned professionals, prepared candidates for the interview process, gathered post-interview feedback, performed reference checks, and negotiated/presented offers. • Obtained first placement within three months and achieved up to $125K in billings by year two of tenure.