Stephanie Bird

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT STEPHANIE BIRD

Former fortune 10 company Executive Compensation, Sales Operations, Corporate Strategy and Finance executive, I uncover insights, generate analytics and re-engineer processes to deliver economic value. I have a keen ability to connect strategy and vision to operational disciplines that accelerate achievement of business objectives. Known as a trusted advisor, I collaborate across large, complex enterprises to successfully deliver innovative solutions. As a sought-after coach and mentor, I motivate others to partner in business transformation and process optimization initiatives that improve profits and increase employee engagement and retention.Reshaped compensation plan, as the AVP Compensation at AT & T, I collaborated with executive leadership to redesign, implement and convey a fiscally aligned, real-time short-term awards and incentive compensation program for approximately 70K managers, across diverse business units, enabling supervisors to reward employees in near real-time resulting in improved employee engagement. Simplified the long-term equity incentive pay program for 5K director and above leaders resulting in a market aligned program. Drove retention AVP Channel Management, authored and successfully gained funding for a $55M investment in AT & T’s customer retention program. Led a robust process to uncover obstacles hindering customer retention and generated data analytics to inform and identify process improvements focused on driving economic value. Improved sales, as AVP Corporate Strategy, partnered with sales leaders to design a strategy to meet the FCC\'s mandate to deploy Fiber to 12.5M households. Conducted and relayed relevant competitive market assessments, developed sales compensation plans and incentives focused on increasing sales velocity, tooled managers with data analysis and visualization tools to improve sales efficacy and championed the PMO. A confidential advisor, as Chief of Staff, drove strategic initiatives to reduce costs. Negotiated a 15% cost reduction across $105M in ad contracts. Led P&L as Executive Director, Financial Analysis, acted as a $1.2B BU CFO, developed and prepared budgets, gap analyses and KPI trending analyses to inform and facilitate operating performance aligned with external and internal key stakeholders. Passionate about empowering leaders, leveraging my experience, I founded SRB Consulting, where I focus on coaching successful leaders with high integrity who are passionate about their work, compassionate towards those they work with and relentlessly operate to deliver excellence.