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Yvonne Sylvia

Douglasville,Georgia

Summary

Enterprising Human Resources Business Partner with well-rounded experience in the following areas of HR, including strategic planning, policy integration, performance improvements, learning and development, change management and data analytics. Thrives on mentoring business leaders across all levels of the organization with proven success at understanding unique business needs to establish genuine relationships as an indispensable partner. Results-driven Human Resources Business Partner skillful in identifying and influencing ways to maximize efficiency, employee satisfaction and challenging the status quo.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

HR Business Partner

Koch Industries
03.2022 - 06.2024
  • Strategically partnered with leadership across C-suite level to develop and implement workforce planning strategies.
  • Coached leaders to drive long term alignment of talent acquisition, performance management, and compensation strategy
  • Reduced employee retention by 10% through establishing strong relationships and increasing employee engagement.
  • Championed principle based and inclusive organization by expanding early career candidate sourcing and hiring by within IT organization.
  • Headed department skill based talent assessments generating informed and actionable results to predict future organizational needs.
  • Crafted data driven solutions by optimizing Key Performance Indicators tracking measures leading to prioritization of work with HRIT organization.
  • Refined internal recruiting capabilities by cutting time to hire by 10 days.
  • Strengthened employee succession planning through mapped analysis of predictive employee movement resulting in early gap analysis and up-skilling.

Manager of Learning & Development

Georgia Pacific / Koch Industries
03.2018 - 03.2022
  • Established onboarding program for existing employees and New Hires increasing learning consistency and reducing training time by 1 month.
  • Coached and created Leadership development training program which improved connection to culture and employee engagement.
  • Advanced culture principles to expand knowledge through digital and personal transformation.
  • Implemented change management strategies to drive engagement, awareness, and readiness for S4 SAP organization roll-out.
  • Led S4 Hana organization integration through four deployment training (160+ employees).
  • Facilitated the creation of SOP's and training materials for S4 Hana to prepare and develop efficiencies for department engagement and adaption.

Team Leader – Replenishment

Georgia Pacific / Koch Industries
09.2014 - 03.2018
  • Fostered relationships with internal and external customers through economic thinking and customer focus to ensure the creation of profitable long-term outcomes.
  • Provided leadership through Consumer Products Group while supporting the Direct-to-Consumer business, Target, Drug Channel accounts and mentored 12 Team Leaders across the Retail Group.
  • Led the establishment of new business process norms, communication practices, and building new metric capabilities.
  • Analyzed ordering patterns and process practices driving progressive improvements across KPI metrics year over year.

Replenishment Analyst

Georgia Pacific/ Koch Industries
08.2001 - 09.2014
  • Analyzed and maintained inventory service levels for top 10 consumer account channels (Dollar General, Kroger, Hardware, and Safeway): to meet or exceed customers expected benchmarks by utilizing the APO inventory management system to create and establish forecasts.

Education

Master of Science - Master of Science Management

Kaplan University -
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

Capella University
Minneapolis, MN

Skills

  • Retention Strategies
  • Organizational Culture
  • Recruitment Strategies
  • HR analytics
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Talent management and Succession Planning
  • Employee Retention
  • Coaching and Mentoring Leadership
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Leadership Training and Development
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Critical Thinking

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Magnetic leadership approach which encourages and builds a culture of diverse thought.
  • Change Management strategist for system and employee transformation.
  • High level of emotional intelligence with a gift for empowering others.
  • Technology proficient - quickly adapting to new systems and applications.
  • Project management - led and co-partnered in the identification, development, management, and postmortem.
  • Proficient in S4 SAP eHana; Internet navigation, Canva, MS Outlook, MS Suites, Tableau, Uperform, Camtasia, salesforce, Vyond, google sheets, MS Teams, LMS (SumTotal) and APO

Certification

Certifications IBCT - International Board of Certified Trainers

HR Business Partner – Diploma from LinkedIn

Strategic Leadership Institute Professional - SHRM-Atlanta

Timeline

HR Business Partner

Koch Industries
03.2022 - 06.2024

Manager of Learning & Development

Georgia Pacific / Koch Industries
03.2018 - 03.2022

Team Leader – Replenishment

Georgia Pacific / Koch Industries
09.2014 - 03.2018

Replenishment Analyst

Georgia Pacific/ Koch Industries
08.2001 - 09.2014

Master of Science - Master of Science Management

Kaplan University -

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

Capella University

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