Jennifer Basinger SPHR

Jennifer leads HR for five teams within WW Operations at Amazon. She is responsible for developing and executing HR strategy for these groups. She leads a team of 25+ global professionals who provide HR Business Partner, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion & Diversity and Strategic Talent Management support to Supply Chain, Delivery, Transportation and Science teams that represent both deeply technical and deeply operational talent. Positively impacting employee experience through the development of leadership bench, measuring organization health, and leading DE&I strategy drives the retention and development of current and future leaders who can scale with the growth of Amazon.

Jennifer is the Head of Human Resources for Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), Legal, and Global Corporate Affairs. She is responsible for developing and executing HR strategy for these groups. She leads a team of 35+ global professionals who provide HR Business Partner, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Inclusion & Diversity and Campus Rotational Program support to the organizations reporting into the CFO, Chief Counsel and Head of PR & Public Policy. Key priorities include positively impacting employee experience and innovating in the talent & leadership development, diversity & inclusion, and learning space to develop current and future leaders who can scale with the growth of Amazon.

Jennifer is the Head of Human Resources for Global Finance and is responsible for developing and executing the HR strategy as well as serving as the primary HR leader for the teams that report into the CFO. Key priorities are to build an organization and culture that is passionate about the importance of the Finance organization in a company like Amazon and to innovate in the talent and leadership development and learning space to further develop our future finance and business leaders. She also leads the annual HR efforts relating to Talent and Performance Management, Compensation Management and Succession Planning. Driving operational excellence and efficiency in HR processes will enable the organization to hire and develop talent at scale and consistently align to Amazon Leadership principles. In support of the Global Finance organization, Jennifer leads a team of more than 30 that consists of HR Business Partners; a Learning and Development team (Amazon Finance University); a Talent Acquisition team; and a University Programs team (Undergraduate and MBA rotational programs). Jennifer also works with an indirect HR team in countries outside of the U.S. that support the global Finance businesses and subsidiary businesses.

Selected to lead a newly created function reporting to the Chief People Officer that is designed to drive exceptional execution of global people initiatives. Responsible for ensuring aligned, sequenced, transparent, and disciplined execution plans are developed and communicated within the People Function. Specific responsibilities include: • Precision execution - introduce program management discipline to the execution of People initiatives across the global organization • Governance - Establish and maintain governance methodology over key People initiatives • Build and maintain SLAs - Lead process for Service Level Agreement creation, ongoing review and evolution for the global People Function • Prioritized People Plans - Develop master People activity calendars with a focus on prioritization and sequencing global People initiatives • Transparent Communications and Change - Work cross-functionally with departments (Talent Management, Rewards & Mobility, Learning & Development, Segment HR, HR Generalist Teams, HR Measurements & Insights, Global People Solutions and Talent Acquisition) and project teams to develop communications and employ effective change management strategies to facilitate effective and efficient delivery of global People initiatives • Impact analysis - Understand effectiveness measures, the impact of the activity calendars on the effective and efficient execution of global People initiatives

Leading organization structure design, talent assessments, recruitment and retention as well developing HR strategy for the newly formed McDonald's Global Digital function. Demonstrating strong change leadership, talent development and influencing skills in order to accelerate achieving the Global Digital vision.

Provided HR leadership and strategy development for the Global Shared Services (GSS) function. Partnered with the leadership team to enhance talent development and facilitate change management in support of the GSS vision.

Lead a team of HR, Recruiting and Marketing professionals to develop a Board of Directors Recruitment Strategy for Literacy DuPage. Literacy DuPage seeks to provide accessible and customized tutoring in reading, writing, speaking and understanding English to help adults achieve independence. LD serves adults who cannot read, write, and/or speak English in all communities of DuPage County.

HR leadership team member for Newell Rubermaid's $1.2 billion dollar Markers, Highlighters, Art and Office Organization global business unit with 3,000 employees. Supported corporate functions of sales, marketing, finance, and R&D. Key leader in Newell Rubbermaid's Global Sales Excellence Project and the first employee affinity group - Win*Win (Women in Newell Rubbermaid - Working, Inspiring Networking)

Member of the HR leadership team for ConAgra's $3.1 billion dollar Refrigerated Foods (meats) business unit with 3,500 employees. I supported HR in nine manufacturing facilities (union and union-free). Served on three HR process workstreams to develop consistent processes for all of the organization's manufacturing facilities. Member of three union contract negotiations team and lead negotiator in a fourth.