Vice President, Human Resources Resume Example

Business Integration 

• Architect of all people strategies supporting the $4.5B creation of the Direct Store Delivery (DSD) division and integration of Kraft Pizza and Dreyer's Ice Cream into Nestle USA
• Led cross functional team to create NestleDSD's cultural framework and executed implementation strategy to ensure rapid national adoption

Talent Management 

• Created a sustainable talent pipeline including the redesign of experienced recruiting/selection, college recruiting, employee development, performance management, succession planning, and upgrade strategy.
• Oversaw the design and implementation of a national salary structure for all roles, including benchmarking, strategy, change execution, and executive compensation transition.
• Headed national roll-out of Results and Behaviors approach to performance management.
• Built a frontline staffing program that reduced cost per hire by 60% and improved time-to-fill by 35%.

Change Leadership: 

• Introduced change management activities supporting all field integration activities leading to Nestle USA's highest organizational health scores and no employee unionization activity.
• Recommended centers of excellence and organizational design approaches to rapidly replicate best practices across the country.
• Instituted "scientific" approaches to driving change including project management, employee assessments, communication cadence, and round-table action planning.

Business Impact: 

• Led organizational structure projects reducing salaried headcount 42% over five years, funding required capabilities, improving organizational effectiveness and reducing costs over $75M.
• Supported Pizza integration with over $125MM in people related synergies and productivity improvements.
• Drove the integration between route engineering, change management, and frontline compensation resulting in improved speed of deployment and resolution of chronic pay concerns.
• Launched the development of Frito-Lay's enterprise-wide strategic sequencing project to ensure effective coordination and project execution.

HR Functional Leadership: 

• Attracted, developed, and led team of 58 HR professionals with an operating budget of $10M after joining the organization with 3 non-coordinated lower level HR employees.
• Created first HR team supporting $2.5B Dreyer's DSD business.
• Served as co-pilot to President of the DSD division while recommending operational, team development, and individual style improvements