Director of Human Resources, BRT, SpartanNash LLC

So, my name's Jamie Meyer, I am the Human Resources director for a publicly traded organization. I actually head a division of that called BRT, which is a small logistics firm on the northeast side of Indianapolis. So, within that, I do a lot of hands-on, and then I do a lot of high-level, strategic planning with the leadership team. So I almost, again, get the best of both worlds because I do exactly what I'm comfortable with doing, I get to interact with the employees and the associates on a day-to-day basis. But then I also get to mentor, coach, and really make a massive impact on the leadership team and really with that business and what it means to our people. One of the biggest things for us is retention right now. Now, again, you go into phases and peaks and valleys, but, currently, we're really looking at that, probably, two to five-year employee. We wanna make sure that when we're bringing employees in, that we're also training them and then retaining them. So we're doing a lot of what you call career succession or review meetings to make sure that you identify those top people, and then you develop them or really look at those gaps as far as what do they need to get in order to get promoted into management or be a future leader of our business. So recruiting is actually my trade. So I came up through Human Resources through that recruitment piece, and in recruiting, I do a lot of that on a day-to-day basis. So if we're backfilling, or we have business growth to do those adds, so I do everything from the first phase of reviewing those resumes all the way to making that offer and bringing candidates on. So I do the compensation analysis, I'm gonna interview those candidates, bring them in, coordinate that whole process, background screening, and make sure that they're good to go on their first day.