SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
*• Experienced Human Resources leader with multiple industry experience including technology, industrial manufacturing, entertainment and information management services.
• Results orientated business partner focused on identifying human capital strategies that capitalize and drive concrete business outcomes.
• Demonstrated aptitude at development of people and organizational effectiveness.
• Global experience including Asia, Europe, Mexico and Canada.
• Excellent relationship builder with experience in a matrixed environment.
• Self-motivated leader with effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated track record in organization development and change management.
Core Competencies include:
• Change Management
• Organizational Development
• Leadership Development
• Talent Acquisition • Performance Management
• Executive Coaching
• Talent Management
• Program Management
VP, People @ From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Director, Human Resources Business Partner @ • Strategic business partner to Canadian businesses (Kijiji & eBay), Merchant Development, WHI and New York Hub
• Developed and deployed first ever Merchant Development on-boarding program for 50 new employees
• Drove all performance management of budget process for all businesses
• Integrated acquisition into eBay
• Built new sales culture and deployed change management for new Merchant Development Organization
• Integrated two new vertical businesses into Merchant Development which included building the strategy, organization, hiring 30 new sales and account managers, and the deployment of a new performance based compensation plan From October 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 8 months) greater new york city areaDirector, Human Resources Business Partner, North America Business @ • Strategic business partner to 7 VP’s across $28 Billion GMV North America Marketplaces business in developing people strategy to maximize business performance
• Led the creation of globally consistent B2C sales and account management model and organization, including consistent segmentation; scaled and enhanced, pre-and post-sales capability/capacity; scaled merchant operations, global compensation plan and introduction of commercial finance to become the partner of choice for brands and merchants
• Hired 125 new geographically diverse sales and account management employees in key segments and verticals to drive growth
• Introduced new Sales and Account Management organization through the first ever eBay Sales meeting
• Designed the vertical business units with a retail mind-set and hired key talent to drive our retail strategy
• Integrated and reorganized key acquisitions into the business
• Managed talent management, calibration and focal process across all businesses From July 2011 to March 2013 (1 year 9 months) Director, Human Resources Business Partner, eBay Marketplaces Technology @ • Lead HR Business Partner for Technology organization that supports China COE, Application Engineering, Analytics Platform, Internal Product Management, Operations and Architecture
• Led Organization transformation for Global Product and Technology’s Global Centers of Excellence strategy that accelerated speed and agility to deliver against goals. The strategy centralized product development and resources—including talent, expertise, processes and technology in China, India, Israel and San Jose
• Provided strategic business partnership to senior executives; provided executive coaching to top leaders focused on performance management, leadership development, and conflict management; facilitated assessment processes for team development; facilitated 360 evaluations
• Managed and evolved talent management processes throughout Technology through creation of Talent Councils, overhaul of focal, P2P and calibration process. The strategy resulted in an enhanced leadership talent mindset and increased assessment capabilities, creating a baseline for top talent acceleration
• Created and executed an organization structure that enhanced our ability to drive Cloud capability in order to realize agility and cycle time improvements
• Started transform of technology organization to a service-based organization to enable verticals to rapidly innovate and change through new Operations, Architecture, Presentation Engineering and Product Management Structure that is customer focused, scalable and agile From January 2010 to July 2011 (1 year 7 months) Talent Acquisition Program Manager @ From January 2008 to December 2009 (2 years) Manager, Human Resources @ From April 2006 to February 2008 (1 year 11 months) Campbell, CAHuman Resources Representative @ From 2004 to 2006 (2 years) Generalist @ From July 2001 to January 2004 (2 years 7 months) Human Resources Specialist @ From 2004 to 2004 (less than a year)
International Politics @ University College Cork From 2001 to 2001 BA, Political Science @ The University of Kansas From 1999 to 2001 Political Science @ University of San Diego From 1997 to 1998 Kelly Leyden is skilled in: Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Strategy, Performance Management, Program Management, Executive Coaching, Training, Employee Engagement, Succession Planning, Performance Appraisal, Organizational Design, Workers Compensation, Recruiting, Workforce Planning