Katie DuPree Magat
Plainfield,USA
Summary
Continuous improvement focused people planning professional with eleven years of experience and proven ability to provide strategic leadership and stakeholder influence utilizing best practices, data-informed insight, change management principles, and team forward mentality. Adept at prioritizing and implementing process improvements geared for increasing profitability and employee experience within large to mid-size organizations.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
People Planning Specialist – Global Center of Expertise
Ingka Services B.V. (IKEA)
01.2024 - Current
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide coaching and support to Ingka countries in scoping and implementation of UKG, Legion, and built solutions.
- Guides development prioritization for UKG and Legion template environments towards modern ways to make our co-workers' work lives better.
- Collaborates with Ingka digital, engineering, and country line organizations to ensure our Ingka standard People Planning processes facilitate automated ways to deliver accurate driver forecasting, responsible staff cost management, strategic headcount management, appropriate and empowering co-worker scheduling and availability, and compliant timekeeping in our retail and distribution units.
- Leads peers in updating our global process library end-to-end and continues to lead peers through scope planning and prioritization of continuous process improvement.
- Provides operational expertise for creation of global templates for People Planning Solutions and procurement of pre-scheduling solutions.
- Provides steering on prioritization of country-specific and global template enhancement requests for the MyTime solutions.
- Led peers in understanding the department contribution to the detailed project timeline and coordinating our progress on these items.
- Supported onboarding and development of both new Specialists
People Planning Specialist – US Market
IKEA
11.2020 - 12.2023
- Provides HR Reporting and guidance to stores and senior leadership on staff costs and headcount opportunities.
- Facilitates continuous staff cost and coworker engagement improvement both remotely and in person via coaching and mentoring of units to optimize staffing, schedules, and the IKEA values.
- Engages in cross-functional projects working closely with Digital, Finance, Projects, and all levels of management to further digital people transformation.
- Led peers and all US Stores through development and implementing a new labor model program with Kronos integration and Power BI App.
- Documented and implemented Process for routine and ad hoc maintenance for new labor model to function partners.
- Supported procurement processes for both UKG Dimensions and a labor management solution for distribution centers in the US.
- Worked with cross functional partners to develop and roll out multiple training programs to align units to global workforce planning processes and roles.
- Created Power BI dashboard for Executive level analysis of Workforce Planning data and metrics.
Unit People Planning Specialist
IKEA
12.2016 - 11.2020
- Provided organizational resources as a member of the management team in support of company processes including strategic workforce planning, scheduling, payroll, labor law compliance, employee relations and benefits administration.
- Facilitated and supported employee training, development and engagement opportunities.
- Engaged in cross functional team communications, working closely with Talent Acquisition, Management, and HR Managers to balance priorities and contribute to operational development.
- Created several companion tools to enhance the effectiveness of central tools and meet specific needs of my location.
- Successfully led unit through the transition to paper-free scheduling.
- Supported global end-user testing for Kronos Schedule visibility in the Hej app.
- Recognized for implementing scheduling process resulting in 56% less corrections.
- Worked cross-functionally to process map commercial processes for the US.
Store Manager
Under Armour
08.2015 - 07.2016
- Directed operations and strategy for a $2.5M store with 50 employees.
- Demonstrated leadership and balancing of priorities in recruitment of staff, performance and development management, employee relations, scheduling, payroll and benefits administration.
- Effectively adjusted flow of inventory to accommodate customers’ needs resulting in deficit elimination and 15% increase in profits working in conjunction with DM and Allocation teams.
- Collaborated with third party vendor on company-wide SOP enhancements resulting from labor study.
Assistant Talent Manager
Under Armour
05.2014 - 08.2015
- Supported corporate policies through collaboration with store management and provided mentorship for associate managers and employees for a $2M store with 50 employees.
- Led the creation and implementation at store level of an employee BLAST sales training eventually rolled out company wide.
Executive Team Lead
Target
09.2012 - 04.2014
- Balanced daily human resource support through two departments in a $20M store with 200 employees.
- Developed weekly communication for employees to improve knowledge around KPIs for improved brand awareness.
- Awarded Wellness Captain title for exemplary leadership and communication skills in sharing and educating colleagues on capabilities of the company wellness and benefits portal.
Assistant Talent Manager
Under Armour
- Reinforced store management principles through direct communication with team members, supporting new company wide initiatives and developing plans for sustainable profitability for a $5M and 70 employee store.
- Led the implementation of mobile Point of Sale (POS) system, lead role in ongoing training and support for employees.
- Recruiting, hiring and management of employee relations for thirty new hire employees within three months.
Education
No Degree - Human Resources Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
12-2012
Skills
- Strategic Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Management
- Research
- Data Analysis
- Project Management
- Workforce Management
- Staff Cost Management
- Labor Modeling
- Problem-solving
- Team collaboration
Certification
- Professional in Human Resources Feb 2019
- Global Professional in Human Resources Anticipated June 2025
Timeline
People Planning Specialist – Global Center of Expertise
Ingka Services B.V. (IKEA)
01.2024 - Current
People Planning Specialist – US Market
IKEA
11.2020 - 12.2023
Unit People Planning Specialist
IKEA
12.2016 - 11.2020
Store Manager
Under Armour
08.2015 - 07.2016
Assistant Talent Manager
Under Armour
05.2014 - 08.2015
Executive Team Lead
Target
09.2012 - 04.2014
Assistant Talent Manager
Under Armour
No Degree - Human Resources Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
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