HR Professional - Employee Benefits

Rod Thomas

Louisville, KY ***** 502-***-**** ***********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-thomas-cbp-ccp-grp-63808a3/

Senior Level HR and Employee Benefits Manager

Operational Support / Regulatory Compliance / Risk Management / Analysis / Performance Management Systems ADP / Reports / Learning Systems / TPM / HRIS / EMS / Negotiations / Employee Surveys / Projects / Policies Office Administration / Strategic Planning / Recruiting / Immigration Status / Procedures / Entitlements / Vendors

High performance and visionary leader with superior experience in human resources, employee benefits and support operations. Merges organizations exceptionally well and provides effective managerial oversight of existing HR departments. Secures best positioned plans, and administrative systems to cut costs and retain key employees. Secures win-win benefit packages, and successfully completes the most difficult projects on time and under budget.

Strengths include:

Overseeing multiple organizations and corresponding responsibilities successfully

Identifying, implementing and launching innovative benefit solutions

Negotiating and implementing benefit contracts that reduce expenses and improve P&L

Delivering HR structural improvements that lower risk, costs and build labor inefficiencies

Education: BA, Urban Planning, University of Kentucky. Post graduate work, University of Louisville.

Selected Accomplishments

Gained productivity and cut expenses. Company needed effective HR and benefit plan. Analyzed, gained officer approval, and contracted services for a revamped paperless process. Saved $60K in overhead.

Downsized facilities to meet employee size changes. Developed, implemented and managed project to get new space and move in five months. Secured and built out office space. Redeployed office asset inventory.

Healthcare strategy reaps major cost savings. Consolidated plan options, implemented key preventive care services and transitioned to self-funded plan. Saved $3M and lowered medical cost inflation rate to 5%.

Reduced benefit enrollment costs. Company manually signed up 7,000+ employees for benefits at 120 U.S. locations. Contracted outside vendor to provide paperless enrollment, carrier billing and carrier enrollment.

Converted HRIS/Payroll system successfully. Established project management team and identified and documented transactional processes. Completed project on time, lowered processes 25%, and saved $50K.

Merged benefit plans for multiple business units. Seven acquired business units required uniform benefit plan. Designed, implemented and rolled out unique plans. Reduced program costs 75%, saving $4.1M.

Career History

Internal Operations Manager, Delegata Corporation, 2015. Control internal support operations including HR, benefits, payroll, recruiting, finance, facilities, maintenance, and technology infrastructure. Lead 5 professionals.

Vice President of Benefits, Atria Senior Living, Inc., 2004 to 2013. Managed employee benefits and compensation organization. Hired, evaluated, developed, and set performance goals. Oversaw vendor relations, unemployment, time off, tuition reimbursement, wellness program and employee communication. Provided M&A due diligence.

Director of U.S. Benefits and Compensation, Acordis U.S. Holdings, Inc., 1999 to 2003. Managed the benefits and compensation programs covering over 1,500 active and retired employees, including non-bargained and bargained, across five U.S. business units. Coordinated expatriate assignments. Managed disbursed staff of seven.

Benefits Director, USA and Canada, Courtaulds United States, 1991 to 1999. Oversaw design, funding and administration of benefit programs covering over 5,000 bargained for and non-bargained for employees and retirees for seven business units located in the in USA and Canada. Managed two direct reports and ten indirect reports.

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