Aleke Vehos
Murfreesboro
Summary
Innovative HR executive who turns around lagging operations and spearheads growth through proactive leadership. Experienced with HRIS and data-driven approaches to personnel management, benefits administration, and organizational development. Record of success in improving recruitment and retention.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, HR Operations
Regent Surgical Health
01.2024 - Current
- Lead HR Operations for a mid-sized healthcare organization (1,000–2,000 employees), overseeing Benefits Administration, 401(k), HRIS (Rippling), Performance Management, Learning & Development, and HR M&A Integration.
- Directed HR due diligence and integration for 15+ ambulatory surgery center acquisitions, including benefits analysis, payroll transition, handbook review, and onboarding coordination.
- Launched and managed full-scale Open Enrollment communications, vendor transitions, and benefit redesigns, improving benefits comprehension and reducing support tickets by 40%.
- Developed and deployed a custom onboarding app through Rippling to streamline new hire experience across clinical and administrative roles.
- Oversaw full 401(k) plan management including eligibility, vesting, match strategy, and vendor coordination with financial advisors.
- Led transition to new benefits administration vendor including platform setup, training, and automated file feed management.
- Owned performance management cycle including policy updates, communications, and reporting for leadership teams.
- Created and presented HR decks to executive leadership and acquisition targets, enhancing transparency and trust during M&A.
- Spearheaded L&D initiatives and partnered with department heads to define training needs, rollout schedules, and vendor evaluations.
Sr. Manager, HR
Northwestern Mutual
08.2022 - 01.2024
- Oversaw several large-scale, cross-functional projects
- Most notable projects: Full optimization of contingent labor processes, Workday optimizations, launch of new vendor management system, and multiple branding and marketing campaigns
- Direct leader to 2 Jr. Project Managers
- Identified gaps and process inefficiencies, recommended solutions to leadership, and planned and executed solutions
- Utilized analytics to identify gaps, monitor processes, recommend improvements, and measure success
- Managed conception, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closing of projects with all project requirements met
- Created and managed all change management/communications plans
- Built strong relationships with project team members across the enterprise including international employees, vendors, entry-level, employees, and executives
- Delivered formal and informal status updates to c-suite executives, key stakeholders, and team members
- Remote
HR Program Manager
Asurion
12.2021 - 08.2022
- Oversaw a program of several large-scale, cross-functional projects at once with minimal oversight
- Most notable projects: company-wide employee experience surveys and subsequent changes to benefits offerings, company-wide audits, new pay model launch and 800+ transfers to that model
- Direct leader to 3 HR Project Coordinators
- Created a robust and comprehensive company-specific project management process (adopted company-wide) including the creation of 55 specialized project templates and a historical project archive
- Remote
Manager, HR
Asurion
12.2018 - 12.2021
- Oversaw several large-scale, cross-functional projects and initiatives at once with minimal oversight
- Most notable projects/initiatives: Transfers of 600 employees post RFP, dozens of business acquisitions, company-wide ATS software launch, chat bot launch
- Lead a team of 12 HR Experts who managed work in the following areas: Internal Recruiting, Onboarding, Offboarding, Scheduling, Compliance, and HR Call Center
- Drive optimization efforts to improve employee experience
- Interviewed, hired, trained, and supervised both domestic and international team members
- Documented all SOPs for business use, standardization, and training
- Conducted monthly performance reviews of all 12 team members
- Managed the design, development, and implementation of new processes and programs and monitored existing processes and programs with a heavy focus on process improvement
- Designed and conducted the company’s weekly New Hire Orientations for both frontline and professional level hires
Lead HR Specialist
Asurion
12.2018 - 01.2021
- Managed multiple high-volume talent-related projects
- Coordinated with Operations, HRBPs, HRIS, Compliance, Onboarding, Payroll, Training, and Vendors to organize project efforts, maintain project timelines, and reach project goals
- Designed the company’s recruiting process, on-site candidate experience process, and onboarding process as well as my team’s talent review process and workforce planning process
- Monitored pipeline and attrition data to create dashboards for executive readouts
- Managed pipelines of thousands of candidates
- Managed ~900 hires per year
- Designed and conducted the company’s weekly New Hire Orientations for both frontline and professional level hires
- Managed relationship with staffing vendor Cielo to monitor hire fails and errors and reduced overall hire errors by 93% in 4 months
Sr. Recruiter
Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Managed full recruiting process including posting, sourcing, screening, assessments, interviewing, offering, salary negotiation, background checks, and onboarding
Recruiter
Check Into Cash
11.2016 - 06.2018
- High-Volume retail recruitment
- Managed full recruiting process including posting, sourcing, screening, assessments, interviewing, offering, salary negotiation, background checks, and onboarding
Education
Master, Business Administration -
University of Southern Mississippi
Bachelor, Communication - Marketing & Management
University of Southern Mississippi
Skills
- Project management
- Benefits & 401(k) administration
- HRIS management
- M&A due diligence & integration
- Performance management
- Learning & development
- Total compensation
- Talent management
- Presenting & Facilitating
- Change management
- Lean six sigma
Awards
Regent Values Award, 2024: For overseeing the RFP and implementation process of our new HRIS
Asurion Hall of Fame, 2021: In recognition of leading the most impactful project of the year
Northwestern Mutual Top Talent, 2023: Reserved for the single employee with the best performance on each team
Asurion Top Performer, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022: In recognition of being my team's #1 performer each year
Timeline
Director, HR Operations
Regent Surgical Health
01.2024 - Current
Sr. Manager, HR
Northwestern Mutual
08.2022 - 01.2024
HR Program Manager
Asurion
12.2021 - 08.2022
Manager, HR
Asurion
12.2018 - 12.2021
Lead HR Specialist
Asurion
12.2018 - 01.2021
Sr. Recruiter
Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union
06.2018 - 12.2018
Recruiter
Check Into Cash
11.2016 - 06.2018
Bachelor, Communication - Marketing & Management
University of Southern Mississippi
Master, Business Administration -
University of Southern Mississippi
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