Wendy Carmody

Menlo Park, CA ***** 650-***-**** adxvp3@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/wendycarmody

HR BUSINESS LEADER AND PARTNER

Leadership and Team Coaching Employee Engagement Global Initiatives

Highly motivated professional with 20+ years’ experience as a Leader/HR Business Partner to global pharma, engineering, and R&D organizations. Broad international R&D and corporate functions experience managing multiple programs across the organization, including UK, India, Brazil, Czech Republic, and China. Highly skilled employee engagement and change leadership professional, passionate about creating strategy and driving initiatives to increase leader and employee performance, inclusion, and retention.

KEY SKILLS

Strategic HR Planning Coaching and Consulting Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Employee Relations Performance Management Learning and Development HR Analytics and Reporting Change Management Employee Engagement and Retention HR Policy and Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA 2013 – 4/2023

Sr Director HR Business Partner, 11/2018 – 4/2023

Director HR Business Partner, 2018

Associate Director HR Business Partner, 2015 - 2017

Sr. Manager HR Business Partner, 2013 - 2015

HR Leader for newly hired SVP and global Development organizations of 850 FTE. Developed workstream strategies in support of major initiatives. Built global partnership with COEs and senior leaders in support of organizational design, people development, and talent management initiatives.

Led a remote team to drive a global talent process, development and inclusion initiatives, and retention strategies.

Planned strategy and approach for development of new career maps across Global Patient Safety and Regulatory.

Designed and implemented strategic approach and facilitation for offsite leadership meetings and team building.

Designed recruitment strategy and implemented the first Development Internship Program, doubling its size within one year and resulting in 5 FTE hires.

Sri International, Menlo Park, CA 2012 - 2013

Sr. HR Consultant and Employee Relations Specialist

Sr. HR Business Partner and Employee Relations Specialist supporting the offices of the CFO, CIO, and Physical Sciences Division. HR Employment Law content expert for full suite of ER issues, both strategic and tactical.

Developed IT and Finance HR transformation strategy including work with leadership team in competency development, performance management, and career maps for individual contributors and managers.

Akamai Technologies, San Mateo, CA 2010 - 2012

Sr. HR Business Partner, Site Acceleration and Media Engineering

Provided full spectrum HR support to executive leadership and all West Coast engineering teams, including performance review roll-out, HR strategy for new engineering location in Prague, and lead for global employee engagement initiatives within European and Bangalore offices.

In partnership with legal, HR content expert and focal point for all employee relations issues, successfully resolved all cases and consulted with VPs and Directors on performance management and talent issues from recent restructuring.

Drove diversity and technical career map initiatives to support employee career progression.

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ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA

HR Consultant (through WorkForce Logic)

Developed and published the first Yahoo! Playbook on Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy and approach. Trained HRBP community on roles and responsibilities and process steps through M&A lifecycle.

Created cultural integration model which was adopted by business.

Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA

Employee and University Relations Programs Manager

Led human resources programs in performance management, career development, employee relations, and hiring in areas of technology interest to HP.

Chaired cross-functional team of senior technical leaders to drive talent development and succession planning. Designed strategy to increase promotion readiness of diversity talent.

HR Business Partner, Office of Strategy and Technology

Delivered cross-functional consulting in support of employee relations issues and business strategies. Built strong relationships with legal and across all organizational levels.

Chaired task force to address and recommend strategies to improve work environment that led to doubling promotions and increasing representation of female interns from 11% to 40%.

Facilitated talent management process with executive staff; meetings resulted in the identification of succession plans, promotion pipeline, and development strategies.

Formed and led team of 10 business leaders to develop employee engagement initiatives. Actions led to programs resulting in increased employee engagement survey scores.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Management Support Specialist

Strategic partner supporting division controller, facilities operations leader, and corporate legal function.

Managed and resolved complex HR escalations and exceptions in the areas of misconduct, worker’s compensation, performance, and mutual separation agreements.

Managed HR issues and resolution of the integration of pre-merger Compaq labs into HP Labs’ infrastructure. Proactive interventions resulted in successful job leveling, placement, integration, and retention of over 100 top research scientists and engineers.

Designed and completed extensive organizational assessments, leading to 20% increase in “favorable” scores in leadership effectiveness and employee engagement.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Department of Counselor Education

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Genetics and Psychology

UC Davis, Davis, CA

CERTIFICATIONS

SPHR, Certification current through, 2022

SHRM-SCP, Certification current through, 2022

New Ventures West Certified Integral Coach, current through, 2023

Hudson Leadership Coaching Institute, Certified Hudson Leadership Coach

International Coaching Federation (ICF), Certified and current through 2025

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