Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Certification
Accomplishments
Timeline
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Carrie Hildebrand

Head of Quality, Privacy, and Risk
Greenville,WI

Summary

Dynamic and results-orientated professional with successful leadership, staff development, and customer service experience. Articulate and persuasive in dealing with a diverse group of individuals at all levels, including senior leadership, management, peers, and staff. Consistently meet and exceed department goals, while also mentoring staff to improve cost, quality, and service. I pride myself on being a fast learner while being agile and transformational to support the ever-changing business needs and marketplace.

Overview

19
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Guardian Life Insurance

Head of Quality, Privacy, and Risk
09.2020 - Current

Job overview

· Lead a department of 68 leaders and frontline colleagues stateside and India that partner with the business areas to support business goals and strategic objectives.

· Forge strong partnerships with business owners and key stakeholders across the Enterprise.

· Established feedback mechanism and customer grading system to monitor the health status of service delivery programs and show progress across areas of opportunity.

· Instituted new technology in the quality contact center space to track CSR scoring and trend. Supplemented with a robust leadership reporting package that contained executive views on top errors, quality by product and channel, and leadership. Includes BOT/RPA technology.

Guardian Life Insurance

Change Management Leader
03.2019 - 08.2020

Job overview

· Build the credibility of the change management function within the organization.

· Craft vision, strategic plan, structure, and brand for change management within the organization

· Develop supportive relationships with key stakeholders. Ensuring all stakeholders in the change support one another.

· Manage the department like an internal consultancy.

· Integrate changes being made within the business in supporting the organization’s strategy.

· Provide standardized tools, training, processes, and support to change managers, consultants, and change agents.

Guardian Life Insurance

Manager, Business Operations
01.2005 - 02.2019

Job overview

· Managed 3-5 Team Leaders with 50-85 associates.

· Provided prompt, accurate, and courteous administrative services to our Brokers, SalesForce and Consumers.

· Successfully coach staff and the department to meet turn-around times and quality goals while ensuring consistent billing procedures are followed.

· Partnering with peers and workforce planning partners to determine receipt forecasting. Assess each month to ensure on target for volume assumptions and risk assessment.

· Effectively collaborate with offsite peers and senior management. Also supervised offsite (out of State) reporting with Team Leader and staff.

· Lead and participated in process improvement projects that produced cost-efficiency effectiveness amounting to $400K annualized savings in 2014 and 1.3 FTE in 2015.

· Partnership with offshore companies to migrate work to maintain a competitive and robust product. Roadmap savings of $1.9M over the last three years.

· Lead capability and career path development for the department by overseeing staff development opportunities and training.

· Model a strategic vision and focus for ongoing development and improvement. Ensure proper bench strength and pipeline employees are in place.

Education

The University of Arizona, Global Campus
Arizona

MHRM from Human Resources
06.2021

University Overview

The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Wisconsin

Bachelor of Science from Psychology And History
01.1992

University Overview

Skills

  • Quality Management Systems
  • Change Control Management
  • Validation Protocols
  • Documentation Control

Affiliations

Affiliations
  • • Black Girls Code Mentor • Harbor House Lead and Mentor of Step-Up Program • Lead Role in Guardian sponsored Fox Cities Marathon

Certification

Strategic HR Business Parter Certification from Human Capitol Institute - November 2017

Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Lead implementation of new $1M technology platform for the Enterprise around quality auditing

Instituted a performance-based audit model in the contact center and stat sampling approach in operations

Developed leader network and training programs

Developed job rotation program for leaders and individual contributors in operations and service

Lead mentor for intern program

Lead implementation of$6M project to implement billing platform to support consumer's evolving expectations

Lead first ever apprenticeship program for the organization

Lead work from home initiative for our organization to support family/wor balance

Lead the transition of closing one site and migrating work



Timeline

Head of Quality, Privacy, and Risk
Guardian Life Insurance
09.2020 - Current
Change Management Leader
Guardian Life Insurance
03.2019 - 08.2020
Manager, Business Operations
Guardian Life Insurance
01.2005 - 02.2019
The University of Arizona, Global Campus
MHRM from Human Resources
The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Bachelor of Science from Psychology And History
Carrie HildebrandHead of Quality, Privacy, and Risk