Lucy Burnette

About Lucy Burnette

Highly organized, analytical Talent Management and HR Leader with extensive experience developing and managing innovative programs to recruit, develop, onboard, and retain top talent. Creates alignment between talent acquisition, performance management, learning & development, organizational design, and business growth strategy. Analyzes data and trends to identify opportunities for improvement and anticipate needs. Adept at building programs and initiatives with global applicability. • Strategic Planning – Partners with leadership to assess talent needs, identify gaps, set strategies, and address performance management goals. Ensures employees receive coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities to enhance retention, performance, and satisfaction. • Onboarding – Excels at designing programs that foster growth and inclusivity while providing new hires with essential training, tools, and resources to thrive. Collaborates with management to facilitate conversations, support, and best practices. • Team Leadership – Leads cross-functional teams in executing upon goals, effectively implementing initiatives, and sharing key insights and recommendations to drive results. Serves as a go-to resource to resolve problems, access information, and maintain momentum.

Experience

1. Senior Talent Partner

   Collins Aerospace

   Jan 2021 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Develops, implements, and manages talent programs and policies for Collins Aerospace on a national and global level. Crafts initiatives aligned with the organization’s vision for current and future employees to build a highly skilled workforce within a welcoming environment. Consults with functional leads on strategies for talent acquisition, organizational effectiveness, learning & development, and other programs. • Serves as co-lead for an innovative New Hire Experience program being rolled out globally; currently designing an interactive, engaging experience to build affinity and belonging through conference style methodologies tailored to fit individual needs and interests while remaining scalable.• Collaborates with co-lead to elevate existing new hire initiatives to ensure consistent orientation and onboarding across the organization and provide access to a multitude of materials and resources.• Selected to design and execute a buddy program partnering all new hires from hourly employees through directors with a mentor to support acclimation to the company beginning in February 2023.• Evaluates the organization’s short- and long-term needs, internal talent health, and leadership priorities to tailor strategies and projects.• Led the business unit launch of newly designed performance management tool and process within Workday focusing on checkpoints and conversations between employees and supervisors.• Identified major gap in training during performance management program launch; swiftly created and delivered 6 training sessions to approximately 25K employees resulting in favorable feedback.• Deployed a team of subject matter experts to design a hard copy version of the performance management tool for employees working on the production floor without computer access; provided access to documents in multiple languages along with recommendations for implementation.

Education

• Darla Moore School of Business

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration – Marketing & Management

• University of South Carolina-Columbia

  Master of Human Resources (MHR)