Jennifer Prath

About Jennifer Prath

Collaborative, strategic, and solutions-oriented leader with over 20 years of experience providing operational leadership to remote and centralized teams. Proven track record of creating and executing strategies to support all levels including clients, operations, and contract associates. Adept at project and change management, fostering collaboration, and creating technical and human solutions that work.

Experience

1. Vice President of Centralized Services

   Staff Management | SMX

   Apr 2016 — Present

   Provide leadership and expertise to the following departments in the United States and India which provide services to over 200 field offices in North America.• Data Analysis and Market Research• VMS Auditors • National Crew Desk Contact Center• Pre-Employment Compliance• Recruitment Marketing• Talent Acquisition• Payrolling Services• Risk Management and SafetyTechnology Integration: Key leadership role in the continuous evolution of the proprietary HRIS/ATS/VMS software platform, Stafftrack. Responsible for working as a liaison between operations and IT to implement business critical software changes with service team, client, vendor, and associate portals and mobile applications.Project and Change Management: Experienced in leading organizational change initiatives to achieve operational and strategic goals especially in new technology and process rollouts.Financial and Business Acumen: Adept in managing multi-million dollar budgets, financial forecasting, sales proformas, and enterprise cost containment across multiple cost centers and countries.Data Analytics: Create and use data-driven insights to track and analyze operational metrics including fill, turnover, time to fill, cost analyses, etc. Deliver evidence-based strategy recommendations for continuous process improvements. Established the use of Power BI apps to ease access and encourage use of internal company-wide roll-up reporting and client facing dashboards.

Education

• University of Northern Iowa

  Bachelor of Arts, Social Work and Psychology

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Team Building
• Performance Management
• Sourcing
• Technical Recruiting
• Financial Analysis
• Human Resources
• Operations Management
• Account Management
• Leadership
• Training
• Employee Relations
• Customer Service
• Business Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Recruiting
• Interviewing
• Talent Acquisition
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Contract Management
• Business Process Improvement