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Jessica Halverson

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Summary

Total Rewards leader with expertise in designing and managing comprehensive strategies that align with business objectives to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. Skilled in building global total rewards strategies, managing large-scale projects, and fostering a culture of wellbeing. Expertise in working across diverse industries, cultures, and organizational size to lead teams to deliver impactful solutions that drive organizational success.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Total Rewards & HR Operations – AMERICAS

Stratasys
Eden Prairie, MN
08.2022 - Current
  • Leading a multi-year strategy to implement the first Global Wellbeing program for Stratasys, including a regional inventory of current programming, assessment of regional budgets to reallocate towards global strategies, and capture of the global employee value proposition to align on a multi-year strategy to drive global equity.
  • Leads the strategic design and execution of regional total rewards programs, encompassing benefits, recognition and employee experience initiatives for employees in the Americas Region.
  • Leads Total Rewards with responsibility for Compensation, Benefits, M&A Integration, and HR Operations in the Americas region.
  • Delivered 15% annual benefit budget savings in the AMER region within the first year through renegotiation of benefit vendor contracts and strategic benefit strategies. I was able to redirect a portion of these savings to invest in 2024 wellbeing strategies globally.
  • Led the successful HR integration for the AMER acquisition of a materials business, collaborating with global PMI teams resulting in positive engagement scores and 0% turnover of acquired employees.

Director, Total Rewards & HR Operations

Schwan’s Home Delivery
Bloomington, MN
2021 - 08.2022
  • Led Total Rewards with responsibility for; Compensation, Benefits, Payroll & HR business systems.
  • Captured 15% benefit budget savings within the first year through renegotiation of vendor contracts and cancellation of unused or duplicate vendors.
  • Developed a multi-year succession plan for a tenured payroll team all planning towards retirement in 2 years, reducing business continuity risk.
  • Developed a new communication strategy for benefit open enrollment to better engage our field employees, this resulted in a 95% engagement rate for 2022 open enrollment.
  • Led a project to redesign the compensation for the field roles which included 80% of the employee population, aligning them to proper pay mix and market pay.
  • Led a project to develop the first Long Term Incentive Program for executives, promoting buy-in to corporate performance and creating leadership buy-in for the achievement of long-term plans

HR Consultant

Salo - Schwan’s Home Delivery
Minneapolis, MN
2020 - 2021
  • Served in an Interim leadership role leading Total Rewards providing stability during a season of change with responsibility for; Compensation, Benefits, Payroll & HR business systems.
  • Developed project management discipline within the Total Rewards team to drive operations process improvement & efficiency to accommodate business growth.
  • Oversight of a national payroll audit to identify process improvement opportunities and development of a strategic plan to implement.
  • Managed an HR system implementation project with UKG/UltiPro that will track, report & withhold local taxes on goods sold in a multi-jurisdictional sales environment.

Director, People & HR Operations

Bright Health
Minneapolis, MN
2019 - 2020
  • Led the People team to scale by 75% through organic and M&A growth.
  • Led successful due diligence and integration for the first Bright acquisition of a 300 employee Physician Group.
  • Developed benefit strategy to prepare for explosive business growth & diversification.
  • Developed comprehensive HR reporting mechanism for executive reporting of projects & critical business analytics.
  • Completed an HRIS system RFP, negotiated contract terms and obtained approval on a 3
  • year contract with Workday.
  • Hired, trained & established an HR Business Partner program to support the organization for rapid strategic growth.

HR Consultant

LABORIE Medical Technologies
Minnetonka, MN
2018 - 2019
  • Served as a strategic HR Business Partner and led the HR integration of their previous 3 acquisitions.
  • Conducted a national payroll audit and delivered recommendations to stabilize the payroll function and ensure business continuity.
  • Developed and launched a new employee handbook and PTO policy to align benefit programs across the organization.
  • Developed HR Operations infrastructure & process to scale as they sought to grow the business rapidly.

Vice President of Human Resources

Total Expert
St. Louis Park, MN
2018 - 2018
  • Delivered HR strategies to facilitate 30% growth in a tight talent market as we grew revenue by 50%.
  • Consulted the Executive team in strategic business planning and organizational design.
  • Completed a comprehensive HR audit to determine focus areas for work to scale business for fast growth.
  • Supported top talent identification processes by assessing talent needs that were aligned to business targets, assessed talent and HR strategies to support 50% growth targets.
  • Devised and executed employee development, performance oversight, compensation and benefits programs.
  • Directed process of organizational planning by evaluating company-wide structure, job design and staff forecasting.
  • Directed process of organizational planning by evaluating company-wide structure, job design and staff forecasting.

Director of Human Resources

ABILITY Network Inc
Minneapolis, MN
2009 - 2018
  • Led the HR team to facilitate 85% business growth through both organic and M&A growth over a period of 9 years.
  • As a strategic business partner to executive leadership, delivered a full spectrum of HR programs that supported strategic initiatives and drove business results.
  • Developed, implemented and led a Human Resources Business Partner team, aligned to business units, providing strategic HR support to help teams realize their strategic goals.
  • Leadership team member for strategic roll-out of new vision, mission, values to drive culture change initiatives that resulted in reducing turnover by 50% as well as engagement scores of 78%.
  • Led due diligence and full integration of 9 acquisitions during a 5 year period, realizing synergies and obtaining high employee satisfaction scores from newly acquired employees.
  • Managed and developed an effective and lean Human Resources team comprised of individuals with the highest level of competence in respective functional areas.
  • Launched a holistic wellness program designed using claims analysis, resulting in lower health insurance costs.
  • Implemented and optimized HRIS systems (ADP Workforce Now, iCims) to drive efficiency and meet organizational needs for scaling of business growth.
  • Diversified Talent Acquisition strategies; opening 5 additional offices and hiring in 32 different states.
  • Co-led talent management programs including redesign of the annual performance management cycle.

Human Resources

Various Employers
, MN
1999 - 2009
  • Comsys Technologies
  • M|A Peterson Designbuild
  • Express Scripts
  • TranCentral Financial

Education

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

North Central University

Skills

Benefits Strategy & Design

Compensation Strategy & Design

Mergers & Acquisitions

HR Operations & Shared Services

HRIS Implementation & Optimization

Payroll Management

Project Management

HR Business Partner Development

Change Management

Organizational Development

Talent Management

Accomplishments

  • Captured 15% benefit budget savings within 12 months at both Stratasys and Schwan’s Home Delivery through benefit vendor contract negotiation and elimination of duplicate services.
  • Delivered 20% pharmacy plan savings through strategic medical plan design and participation in rebate program.
  • Best in class M&A leader, leading through 13 successful acquisitions, realizing synergies and obtaining high employee engagement scores from newly acquired employees.
  • Expert in leveraging systems, process improvement and cross functional collaboration to scale HR for business growth by 15% in a 3 year period at ABILITY and 30% in a 1 year period at Bright Health.
  • Developed comprehensive executive reporting dashboard and project management process to provide accountability and transparency of critical HR projects and metrics.

Timeline

Head of Total Rewards & HR Operations – AMERICAS

Stratasys
08.2022 - Current

Director, Total Rewards & HR Operations

Schwan’s Home Delivery
2021 - 08.2022

HR Consultant

Salo - Schwan’s Home Delivery
2020 - 2021

Director, People & HR Operations

Bright Health
2019 - 2020

HR Consultant

LABORIE Medical Technologies
2018 - 2019

Vice President of Human Resources

Total Expert
2018 - 2018

Director of Human Resources

ABILITY Network Inc
2009 - 2018

Human Resources

Various Employers
1999 - 2009

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

North Central University

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