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Laura Carey

Laurel,MD

Summary

Steering Amazon's recruiting technology landscape, my role as Sr Program Manager encompasses leading vendor management initiatives that significantly impact our strategic hiring objectives. With a focus on candidate experience, our team has achieved a 51% year-over-year spend reduction in discretionary while implementing new service level agreements.

At the helm of global projects, I've launched an Enterprise Licensing Agreement across multiple regions, contributing to the company's operational efficiency. My expertise lies in orchestrating complex negotiations and enterprise restructuring, ensuring seamless integration of technology and alignment with organizational goals.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Program Manager, Recruiting Vendors

Amazon
Arlington, VA
10.2021 - Current
  • Create dashboard and methodology to measure Return on Investment across the portfolio of 3P recruiting tech (define leading metrics for each investment)
  • Identify and drive strategic projects across four key supplier relationships, driving end to end results.
  • Create, launch and analyze user satisfaction surveys to drive the product roadmap within each key supplier (including prioritization and delivery)
  • Lead, write and moderate Recruiting technology Monthly Business Review (MBR) including Page 0 (Key Metrics).
  • Lead a global Request for Proposal RFP for recruiting vendors. Direct bid list and selection criteria for short list, obtaining a new Service Level Agreement (SLAs) for a multi-year award.
  • Direct efforts to redesign supplier Monthly reporting for license usage, leading to YoY spend reduction of 51% in discretionary spending
  • Negotiate and launch new Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA) and led global roll out for EMEA, NAMER and APJC.
  • Host of a biweekly “all Recruiting tech” focused meeting to direct and inform Managers from the Lines of Businesses.
  • Manage all supplier Quarterly / Annual Business Reviews
  • Manage 12 product integrations with Single Sign On (Generic Single Sign-On through SAML protocol) impacting 50K users. Manage annual SSO certificate rotation as a single threaded owner with no outages (0 incidents)
  • Author content for All Recruiter News Channel
  • Escalation point person for contract interpretations, billing and tax questions
  • Manage annual renewal process / investment review for non-core recruiting technology software
  • Partner with suppliers to create Cause of Error (COE) for product defects.
  • Onboard new employees, engaged in three mentorship opportunities.

ENTITY SHIFT BUSINESS PROGRAM MANAGER

AEROTEK - PRESENT: 6 YEARS 5 MONTHS
Hanover, MD
03.2020 - 09.2021
  • Act as lead Business Program Manager to separate one operating company (Aerotek) into three distinct legal entities with separate websites and missions.
  • Meet with C Suite executives on a biweekly basis to discuss strategic direction, status, milestones, and risk points.
  • Implement their feedback into the project plan.
  • Lead recurring meetings for 6 cross functional teams - Human Resources, Operational Services, Payroll, Legal, Benefits, and Technology.
  • Central point of contact for business stakeholders for direction on overall operational vision and management of daily tasks for the company separation.
  • Present to over 150+ employees at quarterly meetings.
  • Lead a six-month rebranding effort with international partners in India to rebrand, launched a new website as a result of the effort.
  • Partner with C level executives to create an international strategy and work with a cross functional team to deploy websites for the UK, India, and Canada.
  • Formally sign off on major project deliverables, including intranet launch, email domain changes, and changes to billing, payroll, and onboarding.
  • Shape grand scale change management efforts touching field office operations, phone lines, and technology.
  • Partner daily with IS to execute project plan from a systems perspective.
  • Work with cross functional team to pilot and test small releases related to systems deployment to troubleshoot risk.
  • Evaluate the post deployment success of various projects by holding formal feedback sessions used to implement further changes.
  • Collaborate with internal communication for content for “all company” announcements, including FAQs and playbooks.
  • Create over 50 distinct presentations over an 18-month period to capture overall project direction.
  • Formally summarize pros and cons of various courses of action and surface risks with stakeholders.
  • Responsible for managing requests for changes to scope with our IS partners.

SALESFORCE PROGRAM MANAGER

Aerotek
Hanover, MD
07.2019 - 03.2020
  • Led project deployment of all company Einstein dashboard used by every field office in North America by Sales, Recruiting and Director Roles.
  • A day-to-day management tool for running operations for all field-based roles.
  • Approved team’s bi-weekly Sprint priorities (using Agile) approve changes to scope of the project.
  • Led daily meeting with contract developers daily to discuss sprint priorities.
  • Communicated risk points to time, scope and cost of project.
  • Wrote content and training materials to deploy Einstein dashboard.
  • Hold company-wide training sessions to deploy dashboard and increase user adoption.
  • Presented MVP to executives to formally sign off on Einstein dashboard and gain buy in prior to nationwide roll out.

PROJECT MANAGER

Aerotek
Hanover, MD
04.2017 - 07.2019
  • Led cross functional team at an enterprise level to investigate current state of business offering in the public sector, identify business pains and process improvements.
  • Conduct a formal Gate Review with senior leadership to identify solutions to business challenges and establish overall project objectives.
  • Built a 500+ task project plan in MS Project with summary tasks, assigned resources and milestones.
  • Designed and deployed training content to the organization.
  • Partner with consultant to develop a business plan outlining a new offering, to include target customers, analysis of current market, and a multimillion-dollar investment proposal.
  • Examined roles and responsibilities, both existing and new, to support business model and outline to ultimately support headcount changes.

ASSISTANT CONTROLLER

Aerotek
Hanover, MD
03.2015 - 04.2017
  • Led cross functional International team focused on India offshore engineering resources.
  • Responsible for deployment of new SharePoint workflow to approve business and review incoming Statements of Work that engage offshore resources.
  • Led recurring meetings with overseas partners to from concept to deployment of workflow approval process.
  • Reviewed contractual terms and conditions in legal contracts including Statements of Work and Master Services Agreements.
  • Review and approve new projects from a financial perspective looking at profitability and risk.
  • Build financial spreadsheets.
  • Negotiated legal terms including Statements of Work and Master Services Agreements directly with clients.

MBA Student

University of Maryland University College
Hanover, MD
04.2013 - 03.2015

· In-residence, cohort-based full-time program two-year program.

· Activities and Societies: Team Leader, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; Executive Coaching Program; Competitive Mentorship Selectee.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Marriott International
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Managed 50 accounts including the Chamber of Commerce, state institutions, venues, schools, faith groups and events.
  • Used CRM to formulate a strategic plan for account penetration to grow business of assigned accounts and manage current business opportunities in the pipeline.
  • Conducted high impact face to face meetings with customers.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Marriott International
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Recipient of prestigious Chairman's Circle award for top 1% of producers.
  • Exceeded plan goals by more than 10% for four consecutive quarters.
  • Created corporate rate programs for accounts at 65 Marriott hotels.
  • Managed rate programs for 150 corporate accounts, producing over $1.5 million in annual revenue and generating 8,000 yearly room nights.
  • Performed sales process independently, including negotiations and the creation of client specific contracts.
  • Identified key performance indicators (KPIs) for accounts on a quarterly basis, including YTD performance.
  • Bid on hundreds of Request for Proposals.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Amundi Smith Breeden
01.2005 - 01.2007
  • Managed fund performance reporting, which was distributed monthly to 450+ active and prospective investors.
  • Completed Requests for Proposals and created marketing presentations for prospective investors.
  • Created detailed account information in CRM to qualify institutional investors and monitor client activity.

Education

MBA -

University of Maryland University College
Hanover, MD
03.2015

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
06.1998

Skills

  • Change management
  • Leading cross functional teams (including international)
  • Risk Management
  • Organizational Change
  • Project Leadership
  • Technical leadership
  • Scope Management
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Business Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Project integration activities
  • Integrations
  • Supplier Management
  • RFP / Market Analysis
  • Purchasing enterprise software

Certification

  • Certified PMP, license number 1927164, April 28, 2016 (Active license)
  • Certified Salesforce Administrator, March 2020 (Expired)

Interests

Competitive Running

USA Triathlon Active Member

70.3 Finisher

Kids Triathlon Volunteer

Ironman Volunteer

Military Spouse

USA Gymnastics Mom

Timeline

Senior Program Manager, Recruiting Vendors

Amazon
10.2021 - Current

ENTITY SHIFT BUSINESS PROGRAM MANAGER

AEROTEK - PRESENT: 6 YEARS 5 MONTHS
03.2020 - 09.2021

SALESFORCE PROGRAM MANAGER

Aerotek
07.2019 - 03.2020

PROJECT MANAGER

Aerotek
04.2017 - 07.2019

ASSISTANT CONTROLLER

Aerotek
03.2015 - 04.2017

MBA Student

University of Maryland University College
04.2013 - 03.2015

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Marriott International
01.2011 - 01.2012

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Marriott International
01.2008 - 01.2011

BUSINESS ANALYST

Amundi Smith Breeden
01.2005 - 01.2007

MBA -

University of Maryland University College

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

Santa Clara University
Laura Carey