Bringing broad HR leadership perspective to this hands-on talent acquisition role for one of the largest solar providers in the U.S., I act as a strategic partner to executive leaders to facilitate growth enablement at scale by filling the talent pipeline. Partner across the organization with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR partners to meet the organization's needs in IT, legal, accounting, marketing, operations, sales and executive leadership. Create and manage the full lifecycle of the talent acquisition processes to capture coveted executive and IT talent in order to build new growth-enabling capabilities and drive key corporate initiatives. Adapt quickly to the rapidly changing staffing business requirements, cultivating a nimble organization that can adjust in real time to the competitive landscape.

HR consulting services operation offering a full gamut of HR consulting and outsourced recruitment services to education groups in Asia.

Strategic business partner to top executive team and HR leader for 250 expat employees dispersed across 7 schools and corporate offices. Train, coach, and mentor 7 direct HR reports and 8 indirect reports. Built a market-based compensation and benefits package and homogenized it across all organizational units, leveling standards, minimizing budget waste, and improving employee satisfaction and retention rates. Improved company's ability to attract top talent and secure better-quality educators by dramatically improving the onboarding process and communication with prospective foreign hires. Acted as a cross-cultural bridge builder between Chinese staff/leadership and expat staff, improving work environment, enhancing collaboration, and improving staff retention.

With a broad HR leadership mandate across the U.S., China, and Singapore and as the most senior operations leader for the Shanghai office, I enabled profitable international expansion, created a centralized HR hub, and maximized cost efficiencies. Cut through employment law red tape, navigated hiring markets, and mastered cultural hiring practices in 3 distinct countries, enabling company to break through into North American and APAC regions. Centralized all HR functionalities by introducing a management system that enabled remote control over American and Singaporean subsidiaries and streamlined record keeping, compliance, payroll, benefits, and PTO tracking.

As HR Director, I oversaw 15 schools and corporate offices in the U.S. and China. I lead a team of 8 direct and 17 indirect reports. I overhauled recruitment policies and procedures to control recruitment costs and attract high-caliber talent, strengthen the talent pipeline, and improve time-to-fill goals. Spearheaded a sophisticated, centralized Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to manage and house candidate data across multiple global locations and synergize hiring efforts.

In this operational leadership and P&L-responsible role, I led two experiential retail operations with 3 direct and up to 40 indirect reports and $6M in annual revenue to consistently overdeliver on KPIs.