Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Strengths Competencies
Timeline
Generic

Brenda Randle

Greater Seattle Area,WA

Summary

Strategic & visionary HR leader with 20+ years experience driving transformative change and innovative HR solutions in fast-moving, highly matrixed Fortune 25 companies. Brings comprehensive expertise and experience in organization development, talent management, compensation, employee engagement and performance management. Thrives on solving complex problems, working with a practical blend of strategic and operational excellence.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Talent Management - Global Talent COE

Microsoft
08.2017 - 06.2023
  • Reporting into the VP of Talent Management, collaborated with business executives and senior HR leaders across the company to develop & implement a new global Talent Architecture, transforming Microsoft's talent landscape.
  • Led cross-functional virtual team of 15 and partnered with a community of over 100 HRBPs to build a new framework for organizing and leveling jobs, setting the stage for a new compensation structure, enhanced talent development, internal mobility, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Engineered a comprehensive change management strategy, securing alignment and adoption from executives to employees for a new job architecture that resulted in role changes for >80% of the workforce.
  • Facilitated multiple executive advisory councils with top leaders to co-architect a role design aligned to their business strategies and goals.
  • Leveraged the job architecture initiative to drive a long-needed OD transformation in Microsoft's engineering model, introducing the Product Management function for the first time, simplifying and differentiating different software engineering roles for >60,000 employees, and defined a new operating model for how these newly-defined roles work together.
  • Led global program to complete 4000+ focus groups and interviews with managers ranging from entry-level to executive over 2 years to document and validate the new job architecture.
  • Orchestrated the alignment of 180,000+ employees to new roles, building robust data management processes and creating new mapping tools to enable 16,000 managers to map their direct reports and seamlessly integrate the data into our HR tools & systems.

Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner, Global Marketing

Microsoft
12.2010 - 08.2017
  • During a period of massive organizational disruption, downsizing, and transformation, partnered with top marketing business leaders to design and implement significant organizational changes while engaging deeply in business and people strategies to drive growth and organizational effectiveness.
  • Led organization design and change management for the One Marketing transformation, bringing together 12 separate marketing organizations previously reporting to different business heads as part of the global One Microsoft restructuring. Facilitated organizational design and planning, communications, talent integration, cultural transformation, and leadership team development directly with the CMO and his team, helping to drive a multi-year, iterative transformation of organization mission, culture, structure, roles and talent in a 4000-employee global organization.
  • Partnered with the head of Devices Marketing to start-up the Microsoft Surface business, helping to drive growth of Microsoft Surface from a $900M loss leader to a $5B+ consumer and commercial business in 3 years. Onboarded, developed, & transitioned dozens of senior leaders through this period of rapid growth and change while partnering with them to build and effectively scale a high-performing organization.
  • Directed the annual Rewards process for the global Marketing organization for multiple years, managing executive people discussions, processes and the $300M budget. Created new standard framework for measuring and differentiating impact across all levels still in use.
  • Helped the global Marketing function build a healthier org pyramid and strengthen its talent pipeline by building a university hire rotational program.

SVP, HR Business Partner

Citigroup
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Recruited to provide strategic HR partnership for the cash management operations function of Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services, a $2B operation with 3000 employees across 4 regional locations. Led team of 10 HR professionals driving end-to- end HR support for recruiting, business partnership, and HR operations.
  • Helped capture $7M in additional revenue by recruiting and hiring >700 employees within 60 days to staff a new public sector business by implementing an innovative new staffing model to enable direct hiring of temporary employees, saving millions of dollars in agency fees.
  • Partnered with business leaders to drive a major restructuring initiative in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Reduced headcount by 15% over 12 months through strategic re-deployment, attrition management and divestiture, reducing the number of layoffs needed. This initiative helped reduce costs by 25% and raise net income by 11% while similar business units were operating at a loss.
  • Improved HR credibility and business relationships by transforming the HR team and its operations through talent movement, new technologies, and streamlined processes.

VP, HR Business Partner

Citigroup
01.2003 - 01.2007
  • Promoted to serve as HR business partner for a $5B, 1000-employee global business within Global Transactions Services.
  • Partnered with several Managing Directors and their leadership teams to navigate significant changes and achieve business growth leading the HR integration for multiple acquisitions, spearheading employee communications, mapping jobs, driving payroll conversion while restructuring organizations and managing site closures.
  • Elevated sales performance by developing and implementing the organization's first-ever scorecard performance management system and overhauling compensation benchmarks and guidelines.

HR Management Associate

Citigroup
01.2000 - 01.2003
  • Excelled in this international, rotational program working in both a project capacity and as business partner.

Education

MASTERS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR -

Brigham Young University

B.A. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -

Brigham Young University

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Internal Communications
  • Team Management
  • Operations Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Change Management
  • Coaching Leaders
  • Leadership Team Development
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Data Analysis & Insights
  • Program Development
  • Project Management

Strengths Competencies

  • Change Leadership
  • Organizational Design & Effectiveness
  • Leadership & Team Development
  • Internal Comms & Group Facilitation
  • Coaching & Consulting Leaders
  • Planning & Project Management
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Data-Driven HR
  • Simplifying the Complex
  • Workforce Planning
  • Business & HR Strategy
  • Building Trusted Relationships

Timeline

Director, Talent Management - Global Talent COE

Microsoft
08.2017 - 06.2023

Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner, Global Marketing

Microsoft
12.2010 - 08.2017

SVP, HR Business Partner

Citigroup
01.2007 - 01.2010

VP, HR Business Partner

Citigroup
01.2003 - 01.2007

HR Management Associate

Citigroup
01.2000 - 01.2003

MASTERS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR -

Brigham Young University

B.A. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -

Brigham Young University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Brenda Randle