Lancaster Colony Corporation, is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty food products for the retail and foodservice markets. Their retail brands include Marzetti®, New York Bakery™, Sister Schubert's®, Reames®, Romanoff®Caviar, Amish Kitchens®, Angelic Bakehouse®, Cardini's®, Chatham Village®, Flatout®, and Inn Maid®. Additionally, they manufacture and sell other shelf-stable products pursuant to brand license agreements including Arby's®, Bibibop®, Buffalo Wild Wings®, Chick-fil-A®, and Olive Garden®. Vice President of Talent Acquisition and HR Systems
•Partnered with the C-Suite to set strategies for Lancaster Colony talent directions and long-term talent pipeline
•Leading all aspects of Talent Acquisition: strategic planning, engagement, attraction, selection, pre-employment & background contingencies, into onboarding; in a decentralized enterprise.
•In 2021, I drove Lancaster Colony to formally adopt a Diversity Hiring Statement. This action reiterated the commitment to inclu

•Advised Executive Leadership on all aspects of Talent Acquisition Operations: strategic planning, engagement, attraction, selection, background contingencies, into onboarding equaling over 12,500 projected 2020 hires.
•Oversight of service delivery levels from pre-employment, contingent workforce, and RPO (recruiting process outsourcing) vendors.
•Continuous technology and process improvement (in partnership with senior leaders: full mapping of current and future state processes.)
•Avature Suite Implementation: Career Site, Applicant tracking system, CRM, and Event Mgmt. Full integration across all platforms. (Avature
● SuccessFactors Onboarding
● SAP HR systems.)
•RPO> Request for information/Request for pricing/Selection/Implementation: Offboarding of current long-term partner /Onboarding of new partner with 8MM+ in spend per year.
•Partnered with Supply Chain and Legal leaders to negotiate new contracts, Statements of Work, and KPI's for new RPO and technology migrated vendo

•Managed and developed domestic Talent Acquisition service delivery and operations team including business unit aligned recruiting teams, TA operations (reporting, pre-employment, compliance, strategic sourcing, assessments, and vendor management).
•Predictive headcount analytics proponent built a Talent Acquisition Team focused strategic workforce plan model that TA KPI's per recruiter into team size, over a rolling 6 months.
•Led the enterprise-wide talent acquisition team (full time staff, contract, and partnering with an RPO) to hire an average of 17,000 hires per year.
● 6,000 exempt and executive hires managed by the in-house team
● 11,000 nonexempt hires managed by the RPO provider, FutureStep
•FutureStep RPO services implementation. Successfully selected vendor (RFI/RFP) and outsourced 11,000 annual hourly hires to FutureStep with 6MM in annual spend.
•Provided leadership to leverage digital technologies/social media to deliver our employment brand.
● "Build a better fut

•Developed and executed the global TA COE model spanning 14,000 annual hires
•Drove operational excellence by working with HR and business leaders to continuously evolve end to end global recruitment delivery: People, Process, Systems, and Compliance
•Partnered closely with key stakeholders (HRVP's and Talent Management) to translate the short term and long-term business strategy into the TA strategy.
•Redefined all talent acquisition processes such as candidate generation, candidate experience, interview forms/process, regulatory and compliance standards, etc.
•Created strategic sourcing strategies integrating company core values through internal and external partnerships.
•Managed the ADP RPO relationship in support of all US based non-exempt hiring. (4MM+ per year in annual spend)
•Managed the FutureStep RPO relationship in support of all Asia based non-exempt hiring. (1.5MM+ per year in annual spend)
•Drove diversity by partnered closely with business and HR leaders to expan

•Held a leadership role in the HR Transformation from divisionally owned generalists to HR Shared Serviced COEs
•Developed strong measures of success in assessing the organization and individual recruiter's quality, speed, cost, and retention in all recruiting activities.
•Collaborated with business leaders to ensure compliance with all federal, state & local laws, serve as the expert in HR and employment law and manage divisional relationships with regulatory agencies.
•Designed and delivered consistent, standardized processes for sourcing, succession planning, screening, interviewing, and developing competitive offers in attracting topnotch talent globally.
•Member of the Abbott Mergers & Acquisition swat team. 18 acquisitions in 18 months.
•Managed the Manpower RPO relationship in support of all US based Sales Representative hiring. (2MM+ per year in annual spend)