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Nicole Graham

Snellville,GA

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

SR HRBP

Graham Consulting Services
Snellville, GA
08.2020 - Current
  • Industry: Working as a global Distribution, Technology, and Manufacturing HR Consultant.
  • Employee Relations: Stop litigation on over 15 cases by proactively responding to complaints and making the appropriate changes in the organization to show the diversity and fair practices with promotions/total rewards. Coaching managers and leaders without creating an uncomfortable environment for executives involved in complaints. Conducted exit interviews and recorded employee feedback for use in retention strategy development. Coordinated workers' compensation insurance and managed FMLA claims. Strategized to eliminate the use of union-based systematics. Regularly conducting meetings w/ General Counsel to correct areas of misalignment. Retained 20% of employees by analyzing job trends and duties competitively matching compensation. Leadership & Development: Supervised HR Department employees by directing activities and monitoring performance. Leading a team of 5 people with various functions including compliance, payroll, benefits, and administration. Facilitates the annual performance management process by leading performance differentiation sessions with managers, communicating performance review and goal-setting instructions to employees and managers, assisting employees and managers with navigating the PeopleSoft system, and tracking compliance. Actively served on the executive learning leadership council, overseeing corporate learning strategy and architecture, innovation, metrics, and employee engagement. Succession Planning: Created succession plans and promotion paths for staff to boost passion for reaching the goals and objectives of the organization. Directed the process of organizational planning by evaluating company-wide structure, job design, and manpower forecasting.
  • Talent: Designed benefits structures and negotiated better health plans. Communicated with N G leadership on KPIs and other metrics to improve performance. Developed job requisitions using targeted keywords and published job openings on the company websites and job boards. Created a comprehensive orientation program to acquaint new employees with company programs, guidelines, policies, and procedures. Developed a user-friendly employee handbook for easier updating and maintenance. Incorporated company culture & communicated changes. Created and implemented an incentive program for hiring and retaining employees.
  • Business Partner: Developed organizational systems for financial reports, schedules, inventory control, and merchandising. Advised on communication structure, implementations for UKG, and Automated Success Factors. Administered employee benefits and led the open enrollment process, informing and coaching employees. Coordinated workers' compensation insurance and managed claims.

Chief of Staff

Newell Brands
Dunwoody, GA
12.2019 - 08.2020
  • Administrative: Supporting the Chief SVP of Tax and the Tax Leadership team. Prepared meeting agendas, notes, and briefing materials. Updated budget documents to track purchases for contracting consultants, travel expenses, subscription services, and supplies. Planned and booked conference calls, meetings and webinars as well as associated travel arrangements.
  • Business Partner: Built strong relationships with key internal and external parties to support strategy. Coordinated inter-departmental workflow and operations, managing client relationships and projects. Formulated high-level organizational strategy to collaborate with senior managers on projects and deliver organizational impact. Collaborated with other departmental leaders to establish organizational goals, strategic plans and objectives. Conducted research to determine ideal markets for products and services.
  • HR Manager: Posted job vacancies, scheduled interviews, advised decision-makers on hiring selections and led the onboarding process. Conducted research, analysis and learning opportunities to support potential philanthropic and business opportunities. Project management.

HR Manager

Honeywell Inc
Atlanta, GA
01.2018 - 11.2019
  • HR Manager: Responsibilities include talent assessment, providing support to all levels of management, and assisting employees with questions regarding benefits, payroll, employee issues, leave of absence, worker’s compensation, performance issues, employee engagement, retention, etc. Devised training programs for new and existing employees. Designed employee relation framework in partnership with business to enable proactive employee sensing that resulted in timely intervention. Demonstrated ability to build quick rapport and trust, manage confidentiality, and influence individuals to raise issues for resolution with management and appropriate parties. Built a robust pipeline and diverse pool of candidates to meet current or future hiring needs.
  • Administrative: Created and updated personnel files by entering information in HRIS.
  • Business Partner: Proactively identified and solved complex HR problems that impacted operations management and business direction. Managed full-cycle human resource operational activities to maximize HR employee performance. Consulted with hiring managers to further understand business requirements and inform pipeline development. Audited recruitment practices for compliance with affirmative action regulations. Analyzed market trends, customer requirements, and competitive strategy to identify opportunities for increasing customer and business value.
  • Generalist: Created a comprehensive orientation program to acquaint new employees with company programs, guidelines, policies, and procedures. Communicated with global teams to ensure pay structures, compliance, and PEO engagement.

HR Executive - HRBP

Turner Consulting Inc
Atlanta, GA
05.2005 - 12.2017
  • Business Partner: Attended conferences, workshops and special events to recruit qualified candidates for company. Facilitated leadership trainings on diversity and inclusion. Manage all employee relations issues, ensure compliance with all policies and procedures, as well as all state, federal and provincial law. Managed the full implementation of a new HRIS system, to include Web Benefits, Performance Management, Payroll, etc. Determined the provider and negotiated a substantial decrease in costs from prior provider. Advised senior management on human resources issues and approved terminations.
  • DEI&B: Created staff teams based on employee strengths and made adjustments to promote overall productivity. Created and implemented employee retention strategies. Represented company interests through monitoring employee concerns and providing thoughtful, remedial recommendations to the senior leadership team. Facilitated professional development and certification activities for staff to create a sense of belonging. Conducted training for managers and supervisors in conflict resolution and employee management skills.
  • Talent: Prepared presentations to company executives regarding employee performance and retention trends. Suggested promotions and wage increases according to employee performance. Conducted employee performance reviews and implemented corrective actions to increase productivity. Facilitated new hire orientations, processed transfers, and managed employee separations.
  • Continuing Education: Researched, identified and maintained knowledge of labor regulations, legal requirements and government reporting regulations. Launched EEOC and Affirmative Action investigations and resolved employee complaints.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Human Resources Management

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
04.2023

Diploma - Freight Broker Training

Bumble Bee Dispatch
Locust Grove, GA
09.2021

Diploma - Business Management, Massage

Gwinnett College
2013

Skills

  • Recommending policy improvements
  • Improving employee engagement
  • Employee Relations & Investigations
  • Full Cycle Recruitment
  • Training, Coaching, & Development
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Planning policy integrations
  • Onboarding/Offboarding
  • Performance evaluation, LOA, FMLA, STD
  • Staff Compensation & Benefits, Workers Comp
  • Leadership, Strategic Planning, & Compliance
  • Leadership development
  • Team Building & Management
  • Critical thinking, project management
  • Data analytics, Manufacturing, Ecommerce, Distribution
  • Workforce efficiency, Success Factors, Asana
  • Training program design & improvement
  • Course material development
  • Kronos/UKG, Paycor, ADP, Workforce, Workday, Teams, Google Docs, Concur
  • Employee Manual evaluation & compliance
  • HRIS software, Bullhorn, Bamboo, Salesforce, ATS, Paycom
  • Understands general international employment law
  • Multi-state experience
  • Data analytics, payscaling, drug screens

Affiliations

Certified Notary Public of Georgia

National Association of Professional Women

WITI- Women in Technology International

Work Availability

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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

SR HRBP

Graham Consulting Services
08.2020 - Current

Chief of Staff

Newell Brands
12.2019 - 08.2020

HR Manager

Honeywell Inc
01.2018 - 11.2019

HR Executive - HRBP

Turner Consulting Inc
05.2005 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Human Resources Management

Southern New Hampshire University

Diploma - Freight Broker Training

Bumble Bee Dispatch

Diploma - Business Management, Massage

Gwinnett College

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