Jaclyn Sailor
Chicago
Summary
Strategic and results-driven Human Resources leader with 12 years of progressive experience partnering with diverse commercial businesses. Proven track record of driving organizational performance through talent strategy, leadership development, and culture transformation. Skilled at aligning people initiatives with business objectives, building high-performing teams, and serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. Recognized for navigating complex, fast-paced environments with a balance of strategic insight and practical execution to enable growth, agility, and employee engagement.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director, HR Business Partner – North America Marketing
The Kraft Heinz Company
03.2016 - Current
- HR Business Partner supporting the North American Chief Marketing Officer and Marketing Organization
- Lead the talent strategy
Associate Director, HR Business Partner – North America Growth Organization
The Kraft Heinz Company
01.2022 - 03.2025
- HR Business Partner supporting the North American Chief Growth Officer and Growth leadership team
- Support the organization responsible for delivering 22% of organic growth in the next 5 yrs through disruptive innovation, a revolution in our digital consumer experience and enhancing our omni customer experience
- Led reorganization for both Sales and Growth organization in support of our transformation journey to drive agility and sustainable growth resulting in merging U.S and Canada to streamline and synergize strategies
- Reignited our people through the reorganization by structuring to empower reducing layers from 7 to 4 and increasing span of control from 3 to 6 while delivering aggressive 10% cost savings target
- HR Leader for 2 new acquisitions and joint ventures within KHC; partnering directly with the CEO, the NotCo JV accelerates our plant-based position and JustSpices which brings spice blends and a Direct-to-Consumer model
- Strategic HR Partner for “The Kitchen,” a new in-house creative agency that we are scaling from 25 to 100 creators driving brand relevance through communications, social and digital content
- Implemented streamlined talent acquisition processes to reduce time to hire by 5 days while enhancing hiring manager’s experience improving net promoter score
- Champion diversity and inclusion aspirations by engaging in inclusive interview panels and ensuring diverse slate criteria with Global D&I’s equity leader, BRG leads, and brand team to create framework for 360 brand activations to ensure our campaigns support our diversity and inclusion goals and reflect our communities
Lead HR Business Partner- U.S Sales Grocery and Customer Development
The Kraft Heinz Company
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Trusted HR Business Partner leading two distinct growth Areas across U.S Sales, comprised of 350 people
- Support 2 Area Vice Presidents and 12 Customer Vice Presidents spanning U.S with 2 direct reports
- Nominated by our U.S leadership Team to be a member of the Zone Engagement Taskforce (40 people total)
- Nominated to be 1 of 6 HRBP’s selected for our first Global People & Performance HRBP Accelerator Program
- Led org design for the US Sales organization after two $1B+ brand divestitures reducing $1.5M costs
- Developed career framework to support employee development and growth by mapping key experiences, competencies, and capabilities for each role across all seniority levels and cross-functional roles
- Led the organizational people review process with President of Sales and 10 Area Vice Presidents to assess performance/potential through 9 box, building development plans, and developing strong succession planning
- Partner with Area Vice President to lead diversity and inclusion strategy for 1,100-person Sales Organization with key metrics to increase D&I measures in recruitment processes and grow BRG participation by 25%
- Deploy new leader assimilation strategy for newly formed leadership team to support onboarding and cultivating a high performing, highly engaged, winning team
Lead HR Business Partner- U.S Sales West Area
The Kraft Heinz Company
05.2019 - 07.2020
- Direct HR Lead for Area Vice President, 8 Customer Vice Presidents, and 350-person salesforce ($4.2B revenue)
- Led the org design, talent process, and budget analysis for the US Sales transformation moving from a geography-based structure to a channels-based structure with the creation of a Customer Development Org
- Delivered 2nd highest engagement score, increasing 2% YoY for U.S Sales by serving as an employee advocate and challenging our areas to establish and maintain a positive, inclusive work environment
- Decreased turnover by 2% in 2019 through strong engagement action plans and driving clarity on strategy
- Successfully overdelivered aggressive time to hire targets while having 75% of movement occur in Q3 and Q4
- Owned $42 million people budget, responsible for delivering and balancing total sales checkbook $103 million
- Drive Organizational Culture and Value initiatives such as Management By Objectives (MBOs), Quarterly Appraisals and IDP’s (individual development plans), Engagement Action Plans, and Continuous Improvement
- Managed and resolved employee relation issues including performance issues and conducting investigations
- Partner with COE’s across Compensation, Talent Management, D&I, L&D, and Finance to build people plan championing employee experience, career growth, talent assessments, and training and development
Senior HR Business Partner- U.S Commercial Business Units
The Kraft Heinz Company
04.2017 - 04.2019
- Strategic business partner for our two largest U.S BU’s: Grocery ($8.5B) and Refrigerated ($7.4B); comprised of 425 associates across Marketing, Finance, Sales, Procurement, and Research & Development
- Supported 2 BU Presidents and their respective leadership teams of 20 Vice Presidents and Sr Directors
- Partnered with business leadership to provide consultative guidance, develop, and implement plans informed by organizational capabilities, structures, processes, and competencies in alignment with business strategy
- Owned $70 million budget and delivered plan by instilling strong data management, analysis, and forecasting
- Lead the strategic organizational design across the 3 BU’s to deliver aggressive annual savings of $5 million+ in People Compensation across both Business Units driving continuous improvement and efficiencies
- Executed robust bi-annual Organizational People Review by conducting a deep dive analysis of people analytics and demographics in the spring and 9-box/succession planning in the fall
- Championed employee engagement and workforce effectiveness planning in partnership with BU leadership
HR Business Partner- U.S Commercial Business Units
The Kraft Heinz Company
03.2016 - 04.2017
- Strategic business partner for Refrigerated ($7.4B revenue) and Beverages & Nuts ($3.5B revenue) Business Units; comprised of 275 associates across Marketing, Finance, Sales, Procurement, and Research & Development
- Partnered with BU Presidents and leadership teams on organization design strategies, talent development, staffing, performance management, succession planning, employee engagement, and employee relations
- Owned $35 million budget and delivered plan by instilling strong data management, analysis, and forecasting
- Analyzed and presented Monthly People & Performance metrics to U.S Lead; positions filled internally vs new hires, turnover rate, vacancy rate, and vacant to start metrics to identify trends and action plans to solve gaps
- Led Quarterly People Discussion with BU President and leadership team to drive thorough talent assessment and proactively plan for growth and development cross-functionally, within the BU, and outside of BU
- Partnered with compensation to create functional job slotting matrices to determine appropriate salary band levels by assessing job scope and complexity to drive consistent practices across corporate and commercial
- Recipient of first annual HR People & Performance Award for exemplifying our company’s vision and values; embodying the company culture and exceeding expectations in current role
HR Specialist
Sears Holdings Corporation
08.2015 - 03.2016
HR Generalist
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2013 - 03.2016
Inventory Analyst, Kmart Boys Toys
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2013 - 08.2014
Education
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN05.2013
Skills
Strategic Leadership
Business Acumen
Executive Coaching & Influence
Organizational Design & Change Management
Talent Strategy & Devlopment
Leadership & Team Development
Timeline
Associate Director, HR Business Partner – North America Growth Organization
The Kraft Heinz Company
01.2022 - 03.2025
Lead HR Business Partner- U.S Sales Grocery and Customer Development
The Kraft Heinz Company
07.2020 - 12.2021
Lead HR Business Partner- U.S Sales West Area
The Kraft Heinz Company
05.2019 - 07.2020
Senior HR Business Partner- U.S Commercial Business Units
The Kraft Heinz Company
04.2017 - 04.2019
Associate Director, HR Business Partner – North America Marketing
The Kraft Heinz Company
03.2016 - Current
HR Business Partner- U.S Commercial Business Units
The Kraft Heinz Company
03.2016 - 04.2017
HR Specialist
Sears Holdings Corporation
08.2015 - 03.2016
HR Generalist
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2013 - 03.2016
Inventory Analyst, Kmart Boys Toys
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2013 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Purdue University