Dawn Donahue (She/Her)

• Lead global People Operations strategy with responsibility for HRIS, Global Mobility & Immigration, People Data & Analytics, HR Shared Services, and HR Policy Management. • Manage and develop a globally distributed team across North America, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring consistent, compliant, and scalable people operations. • Partner cross-functionally with HR, Legal, Finance, and IT to optimize systems, processes, and governance supporting a global workforce. • Oversee global mobility and immigration programs, ensuring compliance with regional regulations while enabling talent movement and business growth. • Drive people data and analytics capabilities to support workforce insights, operational efficiency, and executive decision-making. • Lead HR shared services operations, delivering high-quality employee experiences through standardized processes and service excellence.

This position provided me the opportunity to lead a team in the management of all employee data, HR technology, deriving and delivering metrics for executive decision-making, and managing organizational programs.

In this role, I oversaw HRIS, Shared Services, Data and Analytics, and Program Management for a publicly traded technology company employing 2,700 people in the aerospace and defense industry. My efforts drove the creation and implementation of an HR program management process. Additionally, I improved overall efficiency and clarity within the HR department.

My position allowed me to construct and configure systems from the ground up through a period of growth, mergers, and acquisitions to drive success across all aspects of global HR operations. I ensured compliance with EEOC and Affirmative Action regulations while driving change processes across the organization. By supporting 18,000 employees across more than 200 sites in 25 countries, I lead a team of 4 direct reports, 8 indirect reports, and navigated stakeholder relationships to improve overall performance. * I managed a $2.5M budget to drive systems and process success through multiple implementations related to technology strategy, global policy, and overall growth * By launching Success Factors in a globalized, cross-functional project, I worked with information technology support to deliver multiple modules for training and development while producing a 2% favorable to-budget outcome within the first year * I partnered with Internal Controls and Internal Audit teams to develop and roll out a monitoring and auditing program to oversee IT and HR controls for a range of systems and processes.

Duel role with responsibility for global HR Operations strategy and all corporate compliance activities to ensure compliance with applicable laws/regulations in each operational jurisdiction. Lead and manage teams to support HR systems and operations including HR system strategy, vendor management and analytics reporting.

Serve as the focal point for all corporate compliance activities (including Legal compliance and Human Resources compliance). Responsible for planning, implementing, maintaining, and managing all Company corporate compliance programs to ensure the Company's compliance with applicable laws/regulations in each jurisdiction in which the Company operates. In close partnership with the Company's in-house counsel, identify existing and developing legal issues and opportunities, assess risks, benefits, and consequences of existing and proposed legal compliance and employment-related policies, and recommend appropriate courses of action, including formulation of related policies and guidelines designed to ensure compliance with existing laws.

Oversee HRIS strategy, development, implementation, continuous improvement and administration of new and existing tools/systems globally to support the Human Resources and Legal Compliance functions. Serve as HCM lead on integration projects. Develop new information collection/reporting processes and solutions specifically targeted to legal compliance initiatives, in close collaboration with legal compliance management and members of the Legal department. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve reporting processes for the HR and legal compliance communities ensuring quality standards and legal requirements

Responsible for developing the HR business process infrastructure in a fast growing, dynamic company, utilizing Six Sigma methodology. Assist with the implementation and maintenance of SAP HR system which includes business process mapping, system testing, and creating data infrastructure. Partner with IT and Payroll to ensure the successful upgrade of ADP HRB to WFN.

Direct the planning, design, implementation, continuous improvement and administration of new and existing tools/systems to support the Human Resources and Compliance functions as well as the company’s other talent-related information needs. Partner with HR and Compliance management to establish core business metrics, determine required analytics, and establish an HR Dashboard. Ensure accurate and timely reporting of government-mandated data.

Provide expert oversight to the general operations of the organization’s global HRIS as well as in the development, execution, and modification of system requirements. Maintain internal database files and tables and developing custom reports to meet the requirements of company management and staff. Design user and functional requirements for software to automate departmental processes in collaboration with other departments and users. Determine and propose applications based on user requirements, using tools to design data models, business rules, and user interface. Provide necessary assistance in conceptualizing and administering projects, including implementation of new systems and modules. Ensure system configuration and testing system functionality prior to full release in production. Manage all internal control functions such as system security and employee data. Maintain coordination with the Director of Compliance and Internal Audit on SOX initiatives, as well as Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reporting. Handle personnel management activities of four direct reports, including HRIS IT analyst.