Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Training Resume Example

· Provide leadership expertise on the entire employee life cycle including talent acquisition, performance management, employee relations issues, talent development, employment law compliance, worker's compensation, benefits administration, and quality improvement.

· Align individual strengths with organizational needs to ensure organization has the talent foundation to achieve stakeholder and customer expectations.

· Lead employee engagement assessment process, analyzing data, facilitating leadership discovery sessions, and creating action plans to improve employee engagement and brand culture.

· Ensure organizational leaders are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to thrive in business.

· Create reward and recognition strategies to acknowledge performance excellence.

· Provide business analytics to Senior Leadership on the results and impact of Human Resource, Training, and Quality initiatives.

· Partner with Risk Management and Legal Department on crisis management situations, compliance, ethics, safety and liability matters.

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· Responsible for implementation of a progressive learning and development strategy throughout organization.

· Created a Continuing Education Program to ensure organization provided opportunities each month for workforce to pursue personal and professional development.

· Worked with functional departments to create impactful training resources and learning solutions to support brand initiatives.

· Acted as a learning coach; helping aspiring leaders discover and ignite their strengths.

· Accountable for internal communications including: weekly communications to field, employee newsletters, executive level speeches, quarterly brand updates, recognition programs, and maintenance of intranet.

· Facilitated team building sessions throughout organization, strategy planning sessions, and skills-based training sessions for underperforming departments.

· Brand Conference Committee member, organizing multi-day brand meeting, developing creative workshops, and annual Circle of Excellence Awards celebration.

· Member of Brand Standards Committee; leadership team responsible for establishing brand standards and initiatives.

· Executive sponsor of Corporate Exchange Committee; leading a cross functional team to foster better communication among all Red Roof Inn departments, share information and best practices across departments and generate a spirit of cooperation and camaraderie among corporate employees.

· Led Employee Development Department of 14 to ensure continuous learning and talent growth throughout organization of 3,500 employees in 26 states.

· Provided vision and strategy to the training department in order to implement various training initiatives including, but not limited to: Sales and Customer Service Training, Systems Training, Safety and Regulatory Training, Product Training, and Management Development.

· Responsible for development and deployment of learning resources such as job aids, reference manuals, case studies, role-plays, and web-based training to enhance employee job performance and overall company performance.

· Proactively partnered with department heads to ensure alignment of learning with strategic initiatives.

· Coached Trainers delivery of curriculum and analyzed evaluations to measure effectiveness of programs.

· Worked with executive leadership in identifying, developing, and tracking high potential employees.

· Member of Strategic Integration Steering Committee which evaluated department initiatives against the company vision.

· Executive sponsor for Sales Black Belts, an elite team serving to capture and transfer sales expertise.