Jennifer Wood
Leave Management Administration Manager
Jennifer is an HR Professional with 15 years of progressive experience in multiple fields and industries. Her experience started with recruiting, where she quickly progressed into an HR generalist role, becoming an HR manager/payroll manager, and eventually fulfilling an HR director position. Throughout this time, she gained experience in customer service, manufacturing/sales, construction, and healthcare industries. She decided to use her experience to support various clients as an HR consultant beginning in October 2018. While doing this, she worked in multiple other industries such as real estate, property management, architecture, and marketing, among others. She decided to join the Leave Administrators team in July 2019.
These experiences gave Jennifer a solid foundation and expertise in several areas. Her areas of specific expertise are leave management, process, compliance, policy and administration, client interaction, employee relations, payroll, and recruiting. Her additional areas of specialty include employee relations, benefits administration, organizational development, affirmative action planning, performance improvement, reporting and data analytics, and policy writing.
The focus of the Leave Administration team is to meet the leave case management needs, while maintaining compliance for clients across their U.S. locations, and to assist employees with their needs throughout their leaves to make things as low-stress and easy for them as possible. Jennifer’s background and expertise give her the ability to lead with confidence, share knowledge, and collaborate with her team of strong leave administrators to support our clients and their employees’ needs.
Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree in Business/Human Resource Management through SUNY and has her Certificate in FMLA Administration. She continually educates herself on compliance and stays up to date on new policies and laws nationally and at the state, county, and local levels.
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