Employee Relations Manager

Sheila Simpson

Carmel, IN ***** 317-***-****

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Senior HR Director

Solutions-driven HR Leader who Excels at Elevating the Employee Experience

Highly respected and accomplished, with outstanding ability to develop, spearhead, and deliver variety of human resource strategies, programs, and services in multi-billion-dollar global business. Direct teams to execute on HR goals and initiatives while enhancing employees’ level of engagement. Recognized for innate ability to quickly develop strong partnerships with executive leaders and individual contributors, build trust, quickly solve problems, and deliver results.

Areas of Expertise:

Strategic Planning Performance Management Employee Relations Succession Planning

Diversity & Inclusion Training & Leader Development Workforce Planning Change Management

Professional Experience

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN

Corteva Agrisciences (wholly owned spin-off of Dow)

Regional Human Resources Leader 2016 - 2019

Led US region, managing and developing staff of HR Managers, Talent Acquisition Specialists, and Administrative Associates. Developed, directed, and coordinated HR strategies, policies, procedures, and resource deployment. Provided direct consultative and strategic partnering to senior business leaders to maximize organization’s performance.

Delivered on $3B corporate synergy goal as HR team leader through effective workforce deployment, reorganization, and restructuring activities. Reduced implementation time from several months to few weeks by creating and implementing large-scale reduction-in-force plan.

Oversaw and facilitated post-merger integration activities, including introducing new comprehensive HR service offerings to 3.5K employees in US, increasing education, morale, and employee confidence in new company.

Earned “Diamond Keepsake Award” for leading regional HR team on largest merger and spin-off of Agricultural Business from Dow and Dupont. Effort included legal entity delineation, managing talent discussions across divisions and ensuring employee signoffs and agreements were executed properly.

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN

Global Human Resources Business Partner 2014 - 2016

Provided direction and leadership on all human resources-related matters to Vice Presidents of Operations, Legal, Finance, and Government Affairs. Collaborated with leaders to deliver operational excellence in performance management, succession planning, and educational development for over 3K employees in North and South America, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

Spearheaded implementation of business’ largest restructuring and divestiture program aligned to meet business financial goals. Maintained employee morale and streamlined operations while decreasing personnel expenses over $1M.

Achieved and maintained goal of less than 5% attrition, lowest in industry, through targeted design of employee development and engagement programs.

Created communications strategy, enabling Global HR team to effectively implement programs and align to one HR plan.

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN

Human Resources Manager- Marketing and Sales 2012 - 2014

Provided strategic and tactical HR support to US Marketing and Sales Department. Implemented all salary guidelines, promotion plans, and variable pay programs. Worked with staff teams to evaluate organizational structures, new work processes, and systems to improve people performance. Led investigations related to performance issue, ethics violations, medical leaves, and other situations inhibiting workplace effectiveness.

Increased employee satisfaction survey results 15%, enhancing employee experience by providing excellent HR support to over 600 employees in Commercial Unit for positions such as field sales, customer agronomists, marketing, and communications.

Built strong business partnership and provided expertise in HR technologies, consulting around people processes, and translating specific HR needs into actionable initiatives and solutions.

Led and facilitated several training and development sessions on people processes, including: performance management, succession planning, employee development, and job evaluation, cascading independent delivery of processes to leadership teams and employees by HR managers and people leaders.

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN

Talent Acquisition Specialist 2009 - 2012

Led all aspects of hiring process for US and Canada Regional Commercial Unit. Managed interviewing process with hiring manager and staff. Led and documented wrap-up sessions to ensure objectivity was utilized in candidate selection. Used peer analysis, market survey data, and candidate qualifications to create offers maintaining internal equity while keeping offers attractive and competitive to candidates.

Exceeded offer acceptance goals for Commercial Sales Trainee hires, moving from 65% in 2008 - 09 to over 80% in 2009 - 10.

Increased hiring of diverse candidates 40% in 2 years by focusing on deliberate efforts to source and attract diverse candidates within Commercial Unit.

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN

Additional Foundational Roles:

Marketing Programs Finance Leader 2005-2009

Work Process and Training Specialist 2002-2005

Bulk Specialist Manager 1998-2002

Sales Account Representative 1995-1998

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Bachelor of Science (BS), Agricultural Business Management, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Certifications

SHRM- Senior Certified Professional (SCP)

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Professional and Community Affiliations

University of Indianapolis, Masters in Human Resources, Advisory Board Member

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (Public Service Sorority), Active Member

Software Skills

Taleo, PeopleSoft, WorkDay, ADP Payroll Systems

Microsoft: Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word

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