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Wendy Timmons
Senior Managing Director
2963 Sidco Drive, Suite 101
Nashville, TN 37204
+1.615.371.8612 Main
+1.615.336.1216 Mobile
Wendy Timmons is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Nashville. With over 25 years of experience in multiple industries and international markets, Wendy has a proven track record in positioning organizations for sustainable growth. Her extensive experience in human resources and finance enables her to design and implement effective organizational strategies. Wendy’s inclusive leadership style fosters strong connections from the front line to the C-suite, driving collaboration and innovation. Her analytical acumen and insight allow her to identify opportunities, guide transformative change, and deliver measurable results.
Experience
Prior to joining Ankura, she worked in globally recognized manufacturing and service industries leading process improvements, building high-performing teams, and driving results. Wendy previously held roles in corporate FP&A, controller of European operations, and multiple HR business partner roles supporting both operational and executive teams in a Fortune 50 environment.
Wendy’s professional experience includes:
- Organizational Design, Industrial Manufacturing: Led an organizational redesign aligned with strategic goals. Facilitated design sessions, validated financial benefits, and refined designs with executive input. Analyzed team structures and developed HR tools for onboarding, finalizing the design and implementation roadmap.
- Acquisition Integration, Services Provider: Led a team of project and program managers across all major business functions to drive integration efforts for well over 50 diverse projects. These projects encompassed a wide range of activities, including policy and benefits harmonization, systems migrations, reporting, and process improvements.
- Acquisition Integration, Healthcare Logistics Provider: Led the integration and consolidation of several acquisitions into a standalone division and rolled out an integrated ERP solution.
- Acquisition Integration and Product Implementation, Health Plan: Provided overall project management support for newly acquired business, including new product implementations for multiple business segments for on-schedule delivery. Developed & implemented multiple implementation improvements for increased visibility and scalability to be leveraged across the client portfolio.
- Cost Out Initiatives, Healthcare Services: Led a team that conducted current state functional inventories, layers and spans analysis, and leadership strategy alignment to identify over $12MM of cost-out opportunities.
- Program Leadership, Service Provider: Led a team that baselined current operational processes, identified breakdowns, and implemented solutions to optimize results for a $30 million services business, resulting in scalable/repeatable processes to meet growth objectives.
- Corporate Restructure, Insurance Provider: Led a finance team re-organization, which aligned the team to the new global operating model and set up a global financial shared services organization that consolidated most services to a single location, resulting in over $2 million in savings.
- Process Optimization, Insurance Provider: Led the process simplification workstream for Workday implementation, ensuring each process was optimized and streamlined before conversion.
- Talent Integration, Global Industrial Manufacturer: Led the talent integration of finance and legal teams resulting from a $4.8 billion business acquisition, assimilated employees, created a new organizational structure, and re-aligned resources to increase connectivity to the core business.
- Plant Start-Up, Global Industrial Manufacturer: Developed, led, and managed the implementation of high-performance work teams, as well as led the Lean Event for a new manufacturing line layout for a manufacturing plant start-up.
- Cost Out Initiatives, Consumer Industrial Manufacturer: Led the integration of two call center operations into a single location resulting in lower operating cost and streamlined processes for corresponding support functions.
- Program Management, Fortune 500 Retailer: Strategic planning and management of $15 million IT Marketing program including the successful, on-time delivery of an integrated customer loyalty platform.
- Education
- International MBA, Finance, University of South Carolina
- BS, Business Administration, Lander University
- Certifications
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Middle Market Professional