Vickie Pacella Email & Phone Number

Johnstown, Colorado, Us

HR Consulting: C-Suite services, temporary HR, strategic partnerships, and projects.Sample Client Profiles:• $ 5M 130+ employees Medical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing• $ 7M 170+ employees Non-Profit Community Health Center• $ 17.8M 85+ employees Electronics & Engineering Manufacturing Company• $ 20M 100+ employees IT Internet Financial Services Security Company• $ 40M 160+ employees Pharmaceutical Device Design and Manufacturer• $ 400M 260+ employees Commercial Construction and Excavation company• $ 5B 15K+ employees Leading National “MEP” Installation & Service Provider• Achieved scalable operational excellence in several 170+ employee organizations, ensuring precision, efficiency, and compliance within 45 days by assessing and leveraging systems, talent, and vendors.• Accolades as the "Best Consultant" received from numerous clients, resulting in 10% more project opportunities due to expertise, trust, high-quality work, excellent communication, and relationship building.• Recognized by C-Suite and Legal Teams for my excellent documentation, communication, follow-up, confidentiality, fairness, and professionalism in handling and conducting unbiased investigations, mitigating legal risks, and acting as Company representative with internal and external legal teams for multi-state EEO Claims, Workers Comp Claims, and OSHA-related issues.• Sought out as an expert to provide comprehensive and complex solutions for restructuring systems, organizations, departments, and locations aligning to C-Suite Company objectives, financials, policies, and procedures.• Drove and executed all benefit broker, vendor selection, and open enrollment meetings for 2 state site locations, including meeting payroll deduction update deadlines for the new year in the first 15 days of taking over the client.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Global 4K+ employees, Multi-State, Multi-OEM Design & Manufacturing/PlantStrategic HR leader advising the C-Suite, overseeing the management of HR Operations, Payroll, Total Compensation, Benefits, Workers Comp, Leaves, HRBP’s, HRIS systems, and Talent Acquisition across 700+ employees in the U.S. and Canada within a 4500+ global organization. Served as the primary US HRIS resource for the global organization working with the Works Council and within European Labor Laws.• Automated bi-annual bonus and performance merit-based compensation process, aligning it to a pay-for-performance process within a global HRIS SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Performance module, reducing time, increasing efficiency, allowing for electronic approvals and global visibility by 80%.• Improved candidate screening, wage competitiveness, and metrics-driven processes through strategic software upgrades (Jobvite, PayScale, Comp Modeling, and Survey), achieving a 50% enhancement in candidate screening, market-driven wage competitiveness, and metrics for turnover tracking trends. • Led the development and implementation of a competitive salary structure, resulting in a 30% increase in job offer acceptance rates.• Reduced HRIS expenses by 40%; $250K annually through ADP WFN Payroll HRIS contract renegotiation.• Developed a dashboard for finance and HR, offering detailed headcount, turnover, ROI, metrics, and analytics, increasing management visibility and actionable insights by 90% into employee engagement, hiring, comp, budget alignment, and overall trends.• Worked closely with Accounting and Finance, providing P&L oversight, including facilitating alignment of and preparing annual budget forecasts, year-over-year comparisons with variance justifications, and company-wide department compensation forecasting, resulting in the ability to cut costs by 10% annually.

Greeley, Co, Us

Head of HR strategically leading and managing all key HR functions and an active member of C-Suite as a consulting partner. Management areas included Talent Management, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Coaching, Compensation, Benefits, DE&I Initiatives, Workforce Planning, Employee Health and Safety, OSHA and DOT Compliance, and Workers Compensation.• Achieved a 60% conversion rate of employees from a PPO to an HSA plan, saving employees and the Company $100K in bottom-line premium costs. This was accomplished by initiating and executing the optimization of employee benefits by vetting and acquiring different vendors and specifically communicating and educating employees on the pros/cons of their health plans, making them relatable and real.• Led successful plant downsizing and eventual closure, retaining key talent while meeting financial goals.• Leveraged local unemployment options for job attachments to retain needed talent-optimized work schedules to allow for minimal pay reductions and continued health benefits for employees in a hard-to-recruit area.• Championed re-aligning the compensation structure to performance management during the payroll budgeting process to ensure the Company rewarded only employees who earned increases while reducing potential risk.• Spearheaded compliance with the Workers Comp process and OSHA tracking per site, resulting in zero OSHA recordkeeping fines and Workers Comp rating improvement of over 2 points in a 2-year timeframe.

$70M, 310+ employees, Multi-State Manufacturing Retail Clothing (Company went bankrupt & eventually closed)• Achieved a 50% reduction in program costs while improving efficiency tenfold and reducing time-to-hire by 50% by driving and executing cost-effective automation of our recruitment processes. • Implementation and training on a new Applicant Tracking System allowed for filling over 45 positions within 3 months during a high growth phase and exceeding business goals and management’s expectations.• Corporate Head HR - Oversaw and directed all comprehensive HR and Payroll operations across multiple states.• Managed, trained, and mentored a diverse team of HR professionals, including 3 District Managers, 26 Field Store Managers, and 11 Corporate Managers, ensuring excellence in HR practices and support.• Led and executed all HR functions when opening and closing various retail locations based on business needs.

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$7M, 115+ employees, Medical Design & Manufacturing• Led a 4-month GAAP audit for a startup, aligning chart of accounts, vendor (AP), and customer (AR) accounts. Ensured consistent (GL) transactions, reclassed/cleaned up miscellaneous entries, and supported growth from $4M to $7M in 2 years. • Achieved annual auditable, balanced financials, managing 200 inventory items with minimal business disruptions and staff retraining within 4 months and exceeding the year-end March business tax filing deadlines.• Recognized and rewarded for my excellent and accurate work with a successful CPA firm audit.• Executed successful M&A strategies, combining engineering & design with a manufacturing company, creating a new combined company of over 90 employees while retaining 98% of personnel.• Spearheaded the establishment of 2 separate companies, HR and Accounting Departments, and oversaw critical initiatives encompassing total compensation, benefits, payroll, talent acquisition/recruitment, organization development, and employee relations and compliance.• Created a tracking method with monthly and quarterly reporting to maintain and exceed the 98% threshold goal for compliance with ISO 13485 employee training records for all new and existing process changes.• Led the transition from a call-in payroll vendor to in-house payroll with automation of employee data and project hours compilation, improving billing processes for client work by 80%.• Oversaw, streamlined, and executed all accounting functions, including managing check run schedules and determining, based on cash flow and due dates, which bills to pay and when to achieve timely and accurate balanced monthly, quarterly, and yearly financials. • Managed Fixed Asset schedules, monitored Cash Flow, tracked POs, requested additional project funding, created invoices, and uploaded them for payment per vendor requirements.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba (In Process)

Bs, Human Resources Management

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Accounting

Sphr (In Process)