Senior Human Resource Executive with 20+ years experience in Fortune 500 companies
- Proven leader and change agent
- Trusted confidant to executives
- Global mindset including 4 year expatriate assignment in London
- Strategic with strong business acumen and drive for results
Well rounded experience across all areas of HR: Business Partnering, Generalist, Talent Management, Succession Planning, Organization Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition, Human Capital Analytics, Compensation, HR Operations, and Mergers & Acquisitions
VP Human Capital Capabilities @ Lead Human Capital Analytics and HR Mergers & Acquisitions with a team of 10+ to support the company's strategic priorities.
- Building human capital analytics roadmap and capabilities to leverage the power of data
- Provide HR analytics and consulting to provide insights to leaders to make more informed decisions and drive greater results (turnover modeling, talent movement, Tableau)
- Designing human capital scorecards to measure executive performance against strategic priorities
- Leading employee survey programs to measure drivers of business performance
- Leading HR Merger & Acquisition initiatives including all due diligence and integration activities including separation of Global Business Travel joint venture of 15,000 employees From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior HR Director - Strategic Initiatives (NY) @ HR leader of critical company initiatives working across the entire c-suite reporting to CHRO.
- M&A - divested 7,000 employees to 6 buyers with $10b in proceeds
- Organization Restructuring/Change - HR leader in restructuring entire company for IPO
- Talent Management - Created Ally's Employee Value Proposition and Leadership Program From October 2012 to February 2014 (1 year 5 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior HR Director - Global Corporate Functions (NY) @ HR Business Partner for Ally's corporate functions reporting to CHRO.
- A leader in the formation of global corporate areas to support transition to Bank Holding Co.
- Largest client size in the role was 3,500 with team of 13.
- Areas included Finance, Treasury, Capital Markets, Risk, Marketing, Ally Bank, Communications, Compliance etc. From September 2008 to September 2012 (4 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaHead of Human Resources (UK) @ Head of Human Resources reporting to CEO of 10th largest mortgage lender in the UK.
- Led team of 30+ across all facets of HR (Generalist, Compensation, Benefits, HRIS, Recruiting etc)
- Achieved Sunday Times - Best Company to Work For - 3 years running
- Drove employee engagement results to be highest division in global organization From November 2004 to August 2008 (3 years 10 months) London, United KingdomHR Director - US & Canada @ - Led HR for fast growing Homecomings Financial - a leading mortgage broker with 8 US branches.
- Led integration of acquired Mortgage Intelligence in Canada into GMAC
- Led the HR start-up for GMAC RFC of Canada - a mortgage lender From May 2002 to October 2004 (2 years 6 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaHR Manager @ - HR leader for Corporate Finance Team serving Target, Macy's and Mervyn's
- Responsible for Finance Graduate Rotation Program and top tier universities
- HR leader for launch of www.target.com From January 2000 to April 2002 (2 years 4 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaHR Manager @ - Lead HR Business Partner for Marketing and Sales organization.
- Restructured Sales leadership team and org model with new EVP Sales
- Supported several key initiatives in transformation of HR function such as new SAP HRIS From September 1998 to December 2000 (2 years 4 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaManager @ Consultant in Andersen Consulting's Change Management Practice.
- Key clients included large Fortune 500's such as Norwest Mortgage, Northern States Power
- Supported the creation and growth of 5 high tech start-up businesses From June 1993 to August 1998 (5 years 3 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
MA, Industrial Relations @ University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management From 1992 to 1994 Bachelor of Science, Economics @ South Dakota State University From 1988 to 1992 Christopher Kujawa is skilled in: Talent Management, Human Resources, Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition, Change Management, Personnel Management, Strategy, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Employee Relations, Organizational Design, Organizational Development, HRIS, Mergers & Acquisitions, Onboarding
Websites:
http://www.americanexpress.com