VP HR, Head of Human Resources @ Anaplan is disrupting the world of business planning and execution. We built our platform from the ground up to empower companies to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts and course correct on the fly. With Anaplan’s cloud-based platform, you can continuously align your people, plans and spend to your market opportunities.
We have a tremendous opportunity right in front of us to build an amazing company. My mission is to build the Talent team from scratch. In 2014, we will increased employee footprint by 200% to support our explosive global growth of 230% bookings. We focus on increasing productivity from day one with global onboarding, rolled out career paths, compensation structure to enable us to hire and retain the best talent, rolled out development discussions, tee up integrated workforce planning with our Anaplan software and help our sales team position HR products. In 2015 we are poised to become THE Enterprise Software for planning. We will double our headcount again, roll out our people brand, implement Workday and ready our infrastructure for unstoppable growth and careers! From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) VP HR Cloud @ SuccessFactors successful exit valued at 3.7 B into SAP - Cloud Based Saas Company. Combined forces with SAP to become "the Cloud" business for SAP.
Promoted to HR Leader for combined Cloud Go To Market Business- manage team of 8 global HR business partners & Lead Talent Management & G&A. Build new go to market strategy for combined SFSF + SAP Cloud business, build Talent Management ecosystem. Redesign new Performance Management system with 80% satisfaction rating, Lead Company wide Talent Reviews, Succession planning, Operationalize Leadership Development across the enterprise. Turn over 50% of Marketing Staff and restaff in 120 days. HR partner to Chief People Officer & Increased global HR team by 50% and reducing HR cost per head to 2009 cost levels. Engaged over 400 sales prospects and lead customer calls.
Hired as global HR Director supporting CFO, CIO, General Counsel, CPO, CMO + M&A. Driving strategic HR initiatives enterprise wide: new EVP Brand positioning and Leaderhsip Traits designed, developed & roll out incorporated with a re-design of the Performance Management system. Led HR M&A on Jobs2Web acquisition. From July 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 6 months) san mateo, caGlobal Director Human Resources @ Global HR Leader for independent Elo Touch System business : high growth touch technology business. Elo acquired by the Gores Group a private equity investment firm located in Los Angeles, CA. During my tenure I managed team of 6 and budget of 1.6 million. Business Unit was global with employees in 15 countries - 27 locations. Delivered 30% increase in employee footprint focused on R&D & upleveling talent in business unit to support growing revenue by 20%, and entering emerging market of China. Built new recruitment team from scratch, drove down time to hire by 40% and recruitment costs 60% . Drove compensation market survey to reposition total rewards structure to drive down attrition. Retained 95% of target group. Led new organization design and reporting structure to give clear accountability and quicker decision making. From December 2009 to July 2011 (1 year 8 months) Menlo Park CAHR Director @ HR Director in Games Label for Electronic Arts. I support 2 SVP and 8 VPs for 3 Business Units representing a total of 500+ Million in Revenue and 350+ employees. I have been leading teams for 8+ years and managed global remote teams with success.
Skills in the following:
Developing employees (particularly HR professionals :))
Strong Business Acumen
Managing Reduction in Force
Executive Coaching and Development From January 2008 to December 2009 (2 years) HR Leader @ Broad Senior HR Roles with Shell over the course of 9 years. Led major business and organizational restructuring, managed global large scale change management projects across 5 Continents, expat assignment specializing in Talent Management in London at Global HQ, HR Leader in 1B business turnaround of flagship location and lead negotiator with Labor Union. Managed budgets from 2M to 5M leading teams from 5 to 15 direct reports in both local and global roles. I joined Shell as an experienced hire and had 4 high potential leadership assignments in 9 years.
Other Key Accomplishments:
Designed, developed & delivered first ever global MBA rotational program
HR Leader on first ever company wide global onboarding program
HR Leader on key Talent Management initiatives - high potential process touching approx 20,000
Lead Company Negotiator
HR Leadership Skills:
Intact Team Leadership interventions and development
Performance Management
Executive Assessment and Coaching
Attraction and Recruitment
Talent Management
Labor Relations
International / Global experience in London with MBA. From September 1999 to January 2008 (8 years 5 months) HR Graduate - Leadership Dev. Program @ Joined Ford in the Leadership Development Program. First rotation was heavy Labor Relations and generalist responsibilities. From June 1998 to July 1999 (1 year 2 months) Administrator @ From January 1993 to July 1996 (3 years 7 months)
MBA, HR Emphasis @ Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management From 1996 to 1998 Amelia Generalis is skilled in: Workforce Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employee Engagement, Recruiting, Talent Management, Succession Planning, Onboarding, Mergers, Management, Strategic HR, Personnel Management, Performance Management, Executive Coaching, Human Resources, Labor Relations
Websites:
http://www.anaplan.com