Chris Greenley, MBA
St. Louis, MO 63122
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Strategic Human Resources Executive with over twenty-five years of extensive generalist experience in Strategic HR Leadership with an emphasis in Organizational Development and Change Management. Develop and lead high performance teams through supporting, leading and coaching subordinates, building a strategic HR function while partnering with organizational executive leadership teams. Career history includes being an effective change agent and collaborating and uniting cross-functional business lines within fast paced environments.
Core Professional Strengths
Engagement Compensation Benefit Plan Design Union Avoidance Behavioral Based Safety Risk Management
Labor Relations (1st Chair) Performance Management Strategic Recruiting
Organizational Development Positive Employee Relations Policy and Procedure Due Diligence/Integration Succession Planning Compliance
Strategic Workforce Planning HRIS Selection and Configuration AAP/Diversity
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Steward Health Care Systems, Area Director of Human Resources 2017-Current
Provide strategic support for team of sixteen HR professionals engaged in providing HR services to five hospitals. Areas of emphasis include:
1st chair-Labor Relations (AFSCME, UNA, SEIU)
Succession Planning and Leadership Development
Ulitpro HRIS configuration and training
Independent Human Resources Consulting 2015 - 2017
Recruitment of Passive Job Seekers, AAA and SHRM Certification Preparation
SAK Construction, LLC, Director of Human Resources 2014 - 2015 Privately held sewer maintenance and tunneling company
Reporting directly to the Company President, led a staff of five direct and three indirect Human Resource professionals to deliver increased level of services. Areas of emphasis included:
Succession and Workforce Planning
Organizational Development
Talent Management/Training and Development
Safety Management
Social Media Based Strategic Recruiting
Nooter Construction Company, Human Resources Director 2012 - 2014
$300M division of the Employee Owned CIC Group
Reporting directly to the Division President, led the Human Resources function by managing six HR professionals refinery turnaround construction Company. Areas of emphasis included:
Culture Change
HRIS
Recruiting and Retention
Workforce Planning
Rockwood Pigments Human Resources Manager 2008 - 2012
Subsidiary of Publicly Traded Rockwood Holdings
Managed the HR function for the United States division of this pigments manufacturer, with represented plants in St. Louis, East St. Louis, Baltimore and Los Angeles and union free manufacturing facilities in Easton and King of Prussia, PA. Areas of emphasis include:
Labor Relations
Compliance
Compensation/FLSA
Positive Employee Relations/Employee Engagement
Solutia, Inc. Director of Human Resources 2007 – 2008
Publicly Traded (Bankruptcy Emergence) Specialty Chemical Manufacturer
Led the Global HR function for the Saflex ($750M) division of Solutia. Areas of emphasis included:
Succession/Workforce Planning
Talent Management and Organizational Development
Salary Planning and Incentive/Variable Compensation
Recruiting
Plant Start Up
Pfizer, Inc. Associate Director of Human Resources 2006 – 2007
Contract position for multi-billion pharmaceutical manufacturer. Areas of emphasis included:
Internal Career Placement
Recruitment and Retention
Talent management and succession planning
Compensation
Insituform Technologies, Inc., Director of Human Resources 1998 - 2006
Publicly Traded Pipeline Rehabilitation New Sewer Line Contractor. Areas of emphasis included:
Leadership of Division and Corporate HR functions
Recruiting/Retention
Labor Negotiations
Succession Planning
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Strategic Initiatives:
Design, deliver and re-calibrate supervisory training programs covering topics such as Positive Employee Relations, Decision Making, Time Management, etc., and track via a Learning Management System.
Led annual Talent Assessment process, with ‘Nine-Box’ career assessments and forecasting future recruiting needs to increase organizational talent and support succession plans.
Led and drove a cloud based Talent Management System, documenting employee performance, weighting skills by position level, and conducting annual goal setting exercises.
Enhanced applicant experience through enhanced Applicant Tracking System and utilizing Social Media in locating passive job seekers.
Developed and executed Positive Employee Relations programs, ultimately resulting in improved retention, which opened lines of communication between workers and management and negated the necessity of additional third party employee representation. This was accomplished through the use of Employee Satisfaction surveys, employee involvement committees, focus groups and policy changes.
Partnered with Marketing expertise to create branding initiative to launch social media based recruitment advertising campaign to attract the best available talent to the organization.
Launched internal training program to enhance skills of incumbent employee base with a combination of internal and external training resources, utilizing classroom, e-learning and remote training formats.
EDUCATION
MBA, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
BA, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Area of Emphasis: Human Resources Management