Janet Perry

A highly energetic Human Resources professional with extensive experience in Employment, Employee Relations, Training, Benefits, and Compensation.  Strengths include:

• Demonstrated ability to drive all hiring initiatives including recruitment / interviewing / selection process to meet intensive staffing requirements in all areas and at all levels of business. 

• Exceptional skills in counseling employees, writing policies and procedures, screening applicants, and conflict resolution.

• Strong foundation in benefits analysis, design and administration. 

• Self-motivation and decisiveness with a keen sense of the bottom line and a clear record of profitability. 

• Productive alliances with management to provide meaningful and timely information and assistance in resolving employee issues. 

• Implementation of competitive compensation and benefits programs that reinforce the company’s ability to attract, retain, and motivate a quality workforce.

Financially astute with quantifiable results aligned with core business objectives in employee relations, benefits and compensation design and administration (measuring and rewarding performance), policy development, facilitation and training (developing future leaders for growth), compliance and M&A due diligence.

Examples are: negotiated 4 bargaining units from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution pension plan at $1.5 M savings to the organization, changed benefits carriers at cost savings of $150K, redesigned health care plan to save on annual increase, settled labor strike in 24 hours at last, best offer; developed T&D function and incentive based compensation systems.