This company employed roughly eighty thousand employees at over five hundred sites in twenty-four countries on five continents. The company was in the midst of a transformation as a significant number of their employees were reaching retirement age. The services provided benefited the enterprise as well as a local facility. Services provided included: providing leadership and collaborating with human resources leaders, local managers and union leaders to devise and implement an effective talent management strategy to replace retiring employees; collaborating with enterprise leaders and utilizing best practice models in designing a talent development strategy for front-line leaders and mid-level managers; partnering with cross-functional teams at all levels within a one thousand seventy-eight person facility to design and execute an efficient and cost-effective talent management process. Some successes included: reducing talent acquisition time from initial posting to making an offer from about four months to less than two months; designing of strategies that would lessen skill gaps for new-hires; significantly increasing diversity within the workforce; and achieving retention in the hourly to mid-level ranks.
