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Prerna Sharma

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Accomplished, seasoned Sr. HR Executive with a passion to lead, inspire and develop others. Strong business acumen and proven track record of successful HR program/process execution. Strategic thinker with ability to achieve results while building relationships at all levels in the organization. Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to communicate, influence and motivate executive business partners, managers, teammates, cross functional groups and individual/teams to deliver business results.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Human Resources Business Partner

Amazon Robotics
Seattle, WA
09.2021 - Current
  • Identified regional HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and within company to reach business goals.
  • Discovered and resolved complex employee issues that affected management and business decisions.
  • Worked as effective team member while contributing to local and regional HR projects.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional departments to create, manage and maintain different internal metric softwares.
  • Investigated and liaised with legal department to respond to complaints of harassment, discrimination, employee grievances and other sensitive issues and prepared position statements for EEOC.
  • Resolved understaffing issues, disputes, employee terminations and disciplinary procedures.
  • Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
  • Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
  • Integrated talent management process to include detailed analysis of potential talent gaps and development of career plans to identify and retain current talent and attract outside talent to business.
  • Developed and delivered special events for company employees.

HR Manager

Aleko
Kent, WA
03.2021 - 08.2021
  • Direct and control various benefit programs, including 401K, medical, dental and vision packages.
  • Monitor and handle all employee claims, including performance-based and harassment incidents.
  • Devised hiring and recruitment policies for 180-employee company.
  • Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding and training for 22 new employees.
  • Developed employee retention policies in WA and FL locations after conducting multiple employee surveys
  • Oversee legal compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations in addition to compliance with company policies and procedures.
  • Lead long term decision-making and implementation of HR policies, procedures, programs and functions., while handling day to day job requirements

Head of Human Resources

MkThink
San Francisco, CA
10.2019 - 05.2020
  • Develop and implemented HR and people strategy for multi state organization. Led integration across multiple entities to ensure alignment and strategy execution.
  • Accountable for execution of HR Programs and processes across multiple entities including implementation of management incentive plan, performance management differentiation, employee classification redesign, diversity and talent management.
  • Provided support to Business Unit Vice President and Senior Leadership team during organization design.
  • Led key Human Resource initiatives (external recruiting, strategic workforce planning, and employee engagement) required to establish new consultative business unit. Established HR best practices to be used by other business units.
  • Developed and implemented HR strategies for cross functional teams
  • Partnered with HR Central Functions including Hourly Workforce, Diversity, Employee Relations and Retention, Compensation and Benefits, Talent Management and Training, Learning and Development to deliver processes to meet business objectives.

Senior HR Operations Manager (Contract)

Apsara Skin Care
San Jose, CA
01.2019 - 09.2019
  • Monitored performance on day-to-day basis to line management through coaching, disciplinary actions, counseling and career development.
  • Analyzed trends and metrics with business partnership to develop HR policies that obtain solutions and develop motivating programs and policies.
  • Evaluated business units to identify training needs and individual coaching needs.
  • Analyzed business infrastructure and provided guidance and input on unit restructures, employee development, workplace planning and succession planning.

Senior Hr.Executive

PayCertify
Los Gatos, CA
03.2017 - 12.2018
  • Act as partner to Recruiting team and hiring managers in interviewing candidates and formulating employment offer terms
  • Participate in evaluation and monitoring of success of training programs. Follow-up to ensure training objectives are met
  • Executes and build upon existing performance programs (e.g talent reviews, appraisal processes); and identifying opportunities to strengthen status quo
  • Develop strategy and provide directions for business to be forward looking to changing environment in industry
  • Advises business in establishing clear and enticing internal career paths for their organizations
  • Bringing to life compensation, coaching and performance management strategy
  • Assist business with Talent Management (Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, HiPo Development, and Executive Coaching)
  • Budgeted active and proposed projects by accurately determining pricing, margins and risk factors. Led monthly meetings with directors to analyze spending and provide financial recommendations. Monitored and analyzed financial, statistical and operational data trends. Cut down costs by 35% in first three months.

Head of People

DoneHire
San Jose, CA
01.2016 - 03.2017
  • Held multiple roles with progressive responsibility in Human Resources culminating in management role responsible for team leadership and oversight of comprehensive recruitment and employee engagement strategy.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive recruitment strategy focused on achieving staffing targets, reducing time to hire and enhancing diversity.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to increase engagement including on-boarding and mentorship programs.
  • Assisted organization in merger of two separate affiliates into one entity.
  • Key initiatives included development of new job descriptions and compensation strategy that appropriately aligned employee salaries with market recommendations.
  • Also designed pay for performance system and competitive incentive program.
  • Managed delivery of HR programs and services in areas of staffing, employee relations and retention, performance management, training and career development.

HR Manager

Cutting Investment INC
Santa Clara, CA
07.2008 - 12.2016
  • Implemented human resources strategies by establishing department accountability, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention, AA/EEO compliance, and labor relations.
  • Conducted operational effectiveness reviews and implement knowledge-based systems to improve personnel efficiency including recruiting, screening, and interviewing prospective employees.
  • Established and maintained payroll files. Updated employee profile and payroll deduction changes, including all court order disbursements Responded to employee queries regarding HR policies, ADP access and other adjustments Reviewed financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity, to set goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and process and people improvement.
  • Obtained documents, clearances, certificates and approvals from local, state and federal agencies.
  • Reviewed and analyzed operating procedures and financial metrics including payroll functions using ADP, RUN, BambooHR and Zenefits, account receivable, account payable, budgeting to recommend methods to improve efficiency.
  • Complied with all payroll tax requirements, including but not limited to: local, state, and federal regulations, local, state and federal payroll tax returns, process and file W-2 and wage statements.

Education

Certification - Information Technology Project Management

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
2019

Certification - Technology Entrepreneurship

Stanford University
Palo Alto
2013

Bachelor of Science - HR And Marketing

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
08.2012

Skills

  • Program Management (9 Years)
  • Human Resources Management (14 Years)
  • Performance Management Systems (9 Years)
  • HR Metrics (10 Years)
  • Team Leadership (9 Years)
  • Recruiting/Staffing strategies (13 Years)
  • HRIS (13 Years)
  • HR Strategy (8 Years)
  • Project Management ( 9 Years)
  • Employee Retention (12 Years)

Timeline

Human Resources Business Partner

Amazon Robotics
09.2021 - Current

HR Manager

Aleko
03.2021 - 08.2021

Head of Human Resources

MkThink
10.2019 - 05.2020

Senior HR Operations Manager (Contract)

Apsara Skin Care
01.2019 - 09.2019

Senior Hr.Executive

PayCertify
03.2017 - 12.2018

Head of People

DoneHire
01.2016 - 03.2017

HR Manager

Cutting Investment INC
07.2008 - 12.2016

Certification - Information Technology Project Management

University of California, Berkeley

Certification - Technology Entrepreneurship

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science - HR And Marketing

San Jose State University

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