John Perez
Flower Mound,Texas
Summary
Well-qualified Senior Human Resources Professional with proven success in improving operations and solving problems. Highly proficient in building lasting relationships with key decision-makers, customers and team members to further company goals. Ready to leverage training and experience to take on new professional challenges.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior of Human Resources Professional
Henry Schein
02.2023 - Current
- Drives the strategic delivery of solutions and HR services such as Talent Management, Organizational Design, Change Management, and Workforce Planning ensuring coordination across geographies to ensure consistency, fairness and engagement while influencing best practices
- Serve as a business partner, change champion, credible activist, talent, organizational coach, as well as human resources functional expert
- Positively communicates and demonstrates the Company’s core values by developing trust and respect among peers and employees
- Responsibility for three or more facilities
- Have responsibility for multiple divisions and/or remote functional groups
- Have HR professional direct reports
- Provides counsel to all levels of management on employee relations and corrective action issues and handles escalated employee relations matters pertaining to ethics and compliance, such as potential EEO violations
- Interprets, communicates, and maintains all HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with various legislation
- Oversees the implementation of market competitive and internally equitable compensation (job leveling) and benefits
- Manages and directs HR staff on day-to-day initiatives and provides development and support for their team
- Responsibilities to provide leadership for all functional areas of human resources including talent acquisition, workforce planning, salary and performance management, employee relations, coaching and team member development, benefits communications
- Advises management regarding policy and program matters, making or recommending appropriate decisions consistent with strategic direction
- Viewed as a strategic business partner, change agent and member of line management staff.
Human Resources Manager
KICS Portfolio - Henry Schein
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Serve as a business partner, change champion, credible activist, talent, organizational coach, as well as human resources functional expert
- Positively communicates and demonstrates the Company’s core values by developing trust and respect among peers and employees
- Drives the strategic delivery of solutions and HR services such as Talent Management, Organizational Design, Change Management, and Workforce Planning ensuring coordination across geographies to ensure consistency, fairness and engagement while influencing best practices
- Provides counsel to all levels of management on employee relations and corrective action issues and handles escalated employee relations matters pertaining to ethics and compliance, such as potential EEO violations
- Interprets, communicates, and maintains all HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with various legislation
- Oversees the implementation of market competitive and internally equitable compensation (job leveling) and benefits
- Manages and directs HR staff on day-to-day initiatives and provides development and support for their team
- Responsibility for three or more facilities.
Senior Director, Talent
Dallas COLLEGE
08.2021 - 01.2022
- Ensure that organization-wide talent management, employee relations, and corrective action initiatives are focused and aligned on improving operational and program efficiencies and effectiveness
- Recruit full-time, part-time, temporary, contractual, and adjunct personnel
- Manage full life cycle recruitment (post, source, prescreen, schedule, background, references, offer, onboarding, etc.) Complete hiring process within defined metrics to minimize overall time-to-start
- Develop appropriate marketing strategies, define roles and responsibilities of hiring team, and develop service-level agreements to ensure an effective and efficient recruitment lifecycle while minimizing cost-per-hire
- Worked closely with the HRIS manager to collect and coordinate aggregate data for talent pool and translation
- Those data into insights through data analysis that drives deliberate action plans at the appropriate levels
- Develop and implemented creative and innovative sourcing strategies and techniques to build a pipeline of qualified candidates Serve as a business partner, change champion, credible activist, talent, organizational coach, as well as human resources functional expert.
Sr. Human Resources Business Partner
Sysco inc.
05.2018 - 08.2021
- Establishes and maintains effective and supportive business relationships with the plant manager and staff to ensure business strategy, goals and results are achieved
- Develop and implement creative and innovative sourcing strategies and techniques to build a pipeline of qualified candidates
- Directed and monitored compliance of corporate policies, procedures, and legal regulations by applying knowledge of company policy and Federal and State laws and regulations
- Coordinated with the Safety Department to ensure that the plant environment satisfies health and safety standards and requirements and participates in safety committee meetings, accident investigation, workers compensation claim management, etc
- Identified, manage, and conducts training for plant management, supervisors and employees in workplace policies and professional development to include but not limited to workplace harassment, health and safety, company policy, supervisory skills, conflict resolutions, interpersonal communication, and effective group interaction skills
- Oversaw the effective deployment of the company’s performance management program and the subsequent compensation planning
- Collected and analyzed data to measure the effectiveness of HR programs, policies, and activities
- Coach and guide leaders and associates to maximize engagement and enablement within the workforce
- Oversaw the recruitment, hiring, orientation, and training of staff to manage performance and retain employees
- Directly relay all the benefit and compensation programs to employees.
Employment Supervisor VI
Texas Juvenile Justice Department
04.2016 - 05.2018
- Display expertise in executing highly advanced human resources management functions for the organization’s employment and employee assessment program’s day-to-day operations and activities
- Manage employment program including selection and recruitment processes, background checks system, and employee assessment program, such as pre-employment evaluation, drug testing, and criminal history investigation
- Administer five direct reports governing all facets of recruitment, including strategy, background checks, and administration
- Strategically lead, supervise, and evaluate the employment and employee assessment programs’ development and operation in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations
- Held responsibility in planning and delegating tasks, as well as in overseeing work performance.
Human Resources Manager
Aptar Group, Inc.
01.2007 - 04.2016
- Rendered hands-on oversight in the development and execution of human resources (HR) systems for HR operations, safety programs, project management, organizational development, employee relations, training programs, succession planning, policy interpretation, salary planning, systems implementation, benefit programs, and employee surveys
- Took charge of managing six direct reports in all facets of organization development plan: including research, design, and administration
- Significantly designed and introduced presentations and communication materials to lessen HR staff workload, while improving employees’ understanding and appreciation of benefits, including open enrollment kits, pension explanations, newsletters, and summary plan descriptions
- Carried out due diligence during annual law and policy updates to employee handbook, while posting communication to ensure legal compliance
- Formulated and managed an outcome-based organizational development plan focused on continuous business improvement by enabling system-wide thorough understanding of companies’ core values, mission, and vision
- Plan regular employee performance evaluations
- Conduct skills gap analyses
- Monitor and report on turnover rates
- Develop employee retention programs and team building activities
- Craft policies that support internal promotions
- Discuss career-pathing options with high-potential employees and their team leaders
- Coach employees and act as their consultant regarding learning and development activities
- Organize and oversee individual and team training programs (both outsourced and in-house).
Education
Master’s degree - Human Dimensions of Organizations
The University of Texas at Austin
01.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Organization Development
DePaul University
01.2015
Skills
- Microsoft Office Applications (Vision, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- SAP
- Success Factors
- Proprietary Software’s
- Workday
- ADP
Accomplishments
Recipient of the “Presidents Award” 2010.
Recipient of the “Outstanding General Manager” Award, 1999
Recipient of the “Outstanding Assistant Manager” Award, 1996.
ü Successfully reengineered recruiting processes with the following measures:
o Established; use of the referral program increased candidates’ traffic by 20%
o Introduction of selection process for behavioral interviewing; increased selection effectiveness by 45%
o Presentation of competency for better selection model; hire for character train for skill.
o Utilization of SharePoint to simplify the recruiting administrative process; improved process by 5 days Employed electronic storage saving 95% storage, time, and materials cost.
o Retrained recruiters to utilize social media to increase candidate traffic by 80%.
ü Led the development of an onboarding system.
ü Conceptualize a training and development program.
ü Successfully facilitated a behavioral safety program that brought about positive impacts to the organization including:
- Reportable accidents reduction by 20%, while maintaining acceptable levels; and
- Worker’s compensation premium reduction by more than $8K.
- Expertly reformed recruiting, onboarding, and retention initiatives that resulted to turnover reduction from 96% to 7%, saving $2.7Min total cost over the past nine years.
- Strategically formulated and implemented an in-house training program for all organizational levels, utilizing a hands-on training program, checks and balances, triggers training, and validation observation checklist.
ü Spearheaded effort in implementing award and recognition programs to lessen absences and late arrivals; thus, resulting to absences reduction by 55% and late arrivals by 35%.
ü Consistently attained 89% rating in the overall employee satisfaction survey.
ü Effectively functioned as project team lead for job evaluation and market pricing for 80 positions, responsible for developing merit increase matrix and counseling managers on proposed salary increases to maintain financial consistency.
Certification
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Certification, Manufacturing association, 2008
Affiliations
- Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
- Association for Talent Development ASTD
- The Management Association (MRA)
Additional Qualifications
- Strategic Planning
- Resource Coordination
- Relationship Management
- Employee Relations
- Risk Management
- Multi-Unit Management
- Operation Management
- Talent Management
Qualifications Summary
Accomplished, goal-driven, and multifaceted professional offering hands-on background in business and human resource management, employment supervision, and program development and implementation. Readied with proven track record of success in achieving established goals and retaining staff. Successful in streamlining business and human resource processes to boost organizational productivity and efficiency. Armed with strong oral and written communications skills, with bilingual fluency in English and Spanish.
Languages
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Senior of Human Resources Professional
Henry Schein
02.2023 - Current
Human Resources Manager
KICS Portfolio - Henry Schein
01.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Director, Talent
Dallas COLLEGE
08.2021 - 01.2022
Sr. Human Resources Business Partner
Sysco inc.
05.2018 - 08.2021
Employment Supervisor VI
Texas Juvenile Justice Department
04.2016 - 05.2018
Human Resources Manager
Aptar Group, Inc.
01.2007 - 04.2016
Master’s degree - Human Dimensions of Organizations
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts - Organization Development
DePaul University