Elizabeth Paczak

OTC Industrial Technologies is one of the largest industrial distributors and service providers in the United States, with 1,800 associates across 27 companies that service customers in a wide variety of industries

• Lead 9-associate field HR Business Partner Team, and serve as primary HR Business partner for OTC’s Air Supply segment, delivering meaningful HR solutions spanning all HR disciplines
• Developed an associate experience structure to enable strategic HR planning and articulate HR value to the organization. Implemented Performance, Talent and Merit review processes, management and sales incentive plans, an employment engagement platform, a headcount alignment process, project management standards, and communication protocols
• Managed HR workstream for an 80:20 initiative, a two-state distribution territory expansion, the establishment of a new manufacturing location and an office/manufacturing location move/expansion in Cincinnati, OH.

L Brands, Inc./Limited Brands, Inc. was the parent company of now-separated divisions including Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, specialty retailers with over 1,900 company-owned stores in the United States and Canada.

Director Human Resources (L Brands 2010-2020; BBW 2020-2022)

• Built and led labor and employment practices team to mitigate risk around federal, state and local employment laws. Led large-scale initiatives to develop solutions for employment investigations, preventing discrimination and harassment, wage and hour, background checks, statutory leave requirements, accommodations, predictive scheduling, and union awareness and campaign preparation.
• Created and deployed leadership development programs to reinforce the company values and teach leadership principles and employment policies and practices
• HR Business Partner to Procurement and Business Services function driving the talent management lifecycle with function leaders to build high-performing teams and create the best place to work.

• HR Business Partner to Procurement, Finance, Payroll and HR shared services advising leadership and delivering all Human Resources disciplines
• Drove organization and team effectiveness through culture shaping, organization design, executive coaching, talent management, development and succession planning, and employee relations
• Developed succession planning structure to identify and prepare internal key contributors and build connections with external strategic hires
• Led business transformations including outsourcing mail services, consolidating multiple food service teams, and restructuring the procurement organization by providing change management leadership and collaborating with respective business unit leaders
• Sent to Hong Kong Led to lead Far East organization’s leadership review process, implement leadership competencies and support multiple client groups.

• HR business partner to Express Sourcing and Production and Limited Stores Production
• Advanced global consistency with a global onboarding program and by aligning organizational leadership review, performance management, and merit review practices
• Facilitated programs including Franklin Covey’s FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities, Diversity & Inclusion, Performance Management, PeopleSoft, New Manager Assimilations and Presentational Speaking
• Led PeopleSoft HRMS implementation for multiple divisions, designing organizational structure, enterprise-wide HR and payroll processes, and business communications

• Administered benefits and compensation and led benefits centralization
• Developed and deployed talent metric reporting and maintained HRMS employee data
• Facilitated company training
• Managed employee engagement and philanthropic programs.