
Manager, Compensation at MEDRAD, a business of Bayer Healthcare
Greater Pittsburgh Area

Manager, Compensation at MEDRAD, a business of Bayer Healthcare
Greater Pittsburgh Area
An accomplished and multi-faceted Compensation consultant, manager, and client manager with a fifteen year track record as a technically-knowledgeable advisor in human resources (compensation specialty) and business development. Experienced in multiple fast-paced industries and organizations of various sizes and in various stages of growth and development. Proven ability to implement programs that align with business strategy, are affordable and sustainable, drive productivity, engage key talent and minimize inequities. Relate up, down, and across and influence and educate people at all levels.
• Customer Focus
• Drive for Results
• Integrity and Trust
• Action Oriented
• Problem Solving
• Composure
• Creativity
• Decision Quality
• Business Acumen
• Approachability
• Listening
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Negotiating
• Strategic Agility
• Written & verbal communication/presentation
Manager and employee communications relating to compensation plans and programs
Compensation plan, process, and policy design (base salary structure and process, short-term variable, long-term variable, and executive compensation)
Compensation Consulting
(Privately Held; Medical Devices industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
• As a key member of the HR leadership team, ensure linkage to business plans and company philosophy in order to attract, motivate, and retain the best, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
• Regularly and effectively advise company management and executives and manage and enhance the compensation philosophy, strategy, programs, processes, communication, and policy across the globe of this fast-growing, 2,200-employee medical device manufacturing company.
• Design and lead base pay, short-term incentive, long-term incentive, gainsharing, and deferred compensation programs and related policies and annual and ongoing processes (scope of 400 line managers, $100MM+ in salaries and $20MM in variable pay).
• Manage Compensation Analyst, and team with HRIS, Finance, and HR Business Partners to ensure effective program and process management and enhanced business results, as well as external-competitiveness and internal consistency.
• Manage compensation aspects of integrations / acquisitions.
• Lead company's Financial Wellness strategy / programming, designed to help employees and their families to achieve a sufficient and sustainable retirement through a variety of programs, tools, and support.
(Public Company; H; Real Estate industry)
April 2006 — Present (4 years )
• Closed over $10MM in volume in first 2 years in this commission-based business, while building team and managing new business infrastructure. Finished 2008 in the top 5% of Coldwell Banker’s Pittsburgh offices.
• Identified, secured, built, and maintained client relationships through personal contacts, prospecting, cold calling, one-on-one and group presentation, referral management, and public education.
• Represented home buyers in property identification, search, contract writing / negotiation, and closing process.
• Represented home sellers in pricing, marketing, and selling homes through several traditional and online channels, negotiated contracts, and managed closing processes.
(Public Company; PNC; Financial Services industry)
February 1998 — March 2006 (8 years 2 months)
Managed team of 6 advisors to line management, focused on creating, maintaining, and developing base and variable compensation programs and practices to enhance business results and prove to be externally competitive and internally fair. Reporting directly to the SVP of Corporate Compensation, this was the second-most senior of 15 Compensation positions in the company with a scope of responsibility of 3,700 line managers, $1B in salaries and $170MM in variable pay for 22,000 employees in all PNC businesses and staff areas.
· Team managed bonus & incentive plan documentation and consulted on program administration across the company.
· Developed effective employee communication programs with respect to the introduction, administration, amendment, or termination of company-wide and business/function-specific compensation programs.
· Developed and modified, as needed, all corporate policies related to compensation.
· Developed and managed supervisor/manager training and education on compensation.
· "Owned" the corporate-wide salary structures and market-pricing process.
· Administered management / executive pay programs including short and long-term plans.
(Public Company; HLS; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 1997 — February 1998 (11 months)
Generalist responsibilities - Recruiting, Employee Relations, Compensation, Benefits Administration, Training
(Medical Devices industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
(Public Company; KELYA; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
June 1994 — May 1995 (1 year )
BS , Human Resource Management , 1990 — 1994
HR Executive Program
World at Work, Greater Pittsburgh Survey Group, Western PA Total Compensation Association, Realtors Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania Association of Realtors,National Association of Realtors,TSBN (The Small Business Network)