Search Solution Group is representing a highly accomplished People & Culture Leader with 20+ years of experience supporting large-scale retail and consumer-facing organizations. Selected as part of our Exclusive Candidate Program, this individual brings deep expertise in enterprise recruiting strategy, employee experience, and large workforce hiring operations, partnering cross-functionally with business leaders to align talent strategies with evolving organizational needs.
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Most Recent Title: People & Culture Leader
Experience: 20+ Years
Location: West Coast
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Employee Experience Strategy: Led the transformation of end-to-end employee lifecycle programs including onboarding, career mobility, engagement, and development. Designed strategic frameworks to enhance the employee experience through operational improvements, technology integration, and cross-functional collaboration.
Talent Acquisition Leadership: Directed high-volume, enterprise-level recruiting strategy across a national retail workforce, overseeing a team of managers and more than 100 talent acquisition professionals responsible for thousands of leadership hires and high-volume hourly placements annually.
Organizational Scaling & Workforce Planning: Successfully scaled recruiting teams and processes to meet rapidly increasing demand, delivering results against hiring needs exceeding 200% year-over-year growth through strategic forecasting, workforce planning, and operational alignment.
Program & Change Leadership: Led complex cross-functional programs spanning talent strategy initiatives, HR technology, compliance, DEI programs, and data-informed decision making. Built business cases that secure resources and drive operational improvements across large organizations.
HR Technology & Talent Operations: Experience driving improvements in recruiting and employee lifecycle operations through the implementation and optimization of HR technology, talent systems, and data-informed decision making. Known for improving operational efficiency while enhancing the overall employee and candidate experience.
Organizational Culture & Engagement: Built and led highly engaged distributed teams focused on transparency, curiosity, and trust, achieving engagement scores exceeding 90% across multiple consecutive years while strengthening leadership capability and team collaboration.
Internal Mobility & Talent Development: Co-developed internal candidate strategies to support career mobility and equitable access to opportunities, aligning recruiting and development efforts with long-term talent pipelines and succession planning initiatives.
Authentic Leadership: Known for leading with transparency, trust, and authenticity, fostering environments where open dialogue, accountability, and continuous growth. Built strong, values-driven teams by prioritizing honest communication, empowering both personal and professional development, and creating space for constructive challenge, collaboration, and shared success.
Strategic Partnerships: Established strong partnerships across HR centers of excellence, operations, legal, and business leaders to support initiatives including staffing strategy, employer branding, campus recruiting, DEI programs, and workforce engagement.
