Rochester, New York, United States
Highly collaborative and agile business leader experienced in driving high impact talent and business performance within various size organizations. Reputation for ability to partner with leadership teams in driving strategic goals and vision in dynamic, high growth, global environments. If you would like to contact me, I can be reached at [email protected] Leadership Competencies: Executive Coaching, Business Transformation , Change Management, Talent Management, Organization Development, Global Compensation & Benefits, Service Delivery, Third-Party Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cross Functional Team Leadership
Key member of Executive Leadership Team driving overall business performance for Baldwin Richardson Foods, a premier supplier of custom developed products and ingredients for the foodservice Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Lead all HR and Talent initiatives including executive coaching, workforce strategy, business process improvement, talent management, organization development and compensation and benefits.
Work with small / medium size organizations (including non-profit) in areas of talent management, leadership coaching, organization development and compensation, including Ronald McDonald House of Rochester NY, Willow Domestic Violence, GateHouse Media and Baldwin Richardson Foods.
Key member of Executive Leadership Team driving overall business performance for $1.4B business, operating across 36 states with over 11,000 employees. Led all HR and Talent initiatives including executive coaching, business transformation, change management, mergers & acquisitions, business process improvement, talent management, organization development and compensation and benefits. -Designed and built overall HR function within 6 months (from completely decentralized HR resources brought in through rapid company acquisition activity.) New HR function significantly improved efficiency and business performance. -Built Talent Acquisition function including Sales Recruiting, reducing Sales open headcount by over 50% (from 19% to 7%) while decreasing annual cost by over 50% ($2M to $1M). -Provided HR Leadership in support of mergers & acquisitions activity ($700M+) including identification and implementation of cost savings and integration opportunities of $90M. -Implemented first company-wide Human Capital Management (HCM) system resulting in ability to make data driven business decisions. -Developed and implemented strategic reforms to health plan design resulting in $2M annual cost savings. -Partnered with Fortress Investment Group (global investment management company managing $41.4B of assets) to perform due diligence on potential company acquisition and partnership opportunities.
-Led HR team (10 resources) to deliver all HR initiatives for regionalized business operations across U.S. Large Enterprise Operations, with $2.1B in revenue and 8,000 sales and service delivery employees. -Partnered with operational leaders to develop and implement innovative Go-To-Market Strategy and Business Model to drive company profit. Designed key roles, mapped existing talent into newly formed roles and created resource plan to acquire new talent. Developed and implemented change management communication plan. Implemented workforce actions (employee downsizing), saving $50M in annual labor costs. -Created resource plan to improve recruiting strategy and expand candidate pool. Prioritized key roles through quantitative analysis of various economic factors – strategic business plans, role productivity, recruitment, training costs, and market trends.
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015 Led HR team (10 resources) to deliver all HR initiatives for U.S. Large Enterprise Operations, with $2.1B in revenue and 8,000 employees, including sales and service delivery. -Partnered with operational leaders to develop and implement innovative and profitable Go-To-Market Strategy and Business Model. Designed key roles, mapped existing talent into newly formed roles and created resource plan to acquire new talent. Developed and implemented change management communication plan. Implemented workforce actions (employee downsizing), saving $50M in annual labor costs. -Created resource plan to improve recruiting strategy and expand candidate pool. Prioritized key roles through quantitative analysis of various economic factors – strategic business plans, role productivity, recruitment, training costs, and market trends.
-Senior HR Business Partner for emerging, new growth area of Major Accounts / Client Sales, Business Development Operations, and Global Account Operations. -Partnered closely with consultants to develop talent strategy aligned to business growth goals. -Led restructure and improved profit model of Major Account's organization (annual revenue of $750M) including downsizing GM positions 50% - from 100 to 50, resulting in annual cost savings of $10M.
-Managed all compensation programs (including equity, bonus, and base pay) for Xerox North America (18,000 employees with annual labor cost of $1.5B) with focus on Executive Compensation. -Developed compensation models and forecasts that utilized benchmark survey data and sales performance to decrease labor costs and prioritize annual salary investments of $20M+. -Implemented corporate-wide pay policy changes, resulting in annual cost savings of $2M. Held additional HR roles at Xerox Corporation (1995-2005) and Macy's (1994-1995.)