Founder and President
R Bagin Partners
Rebecca Bagin, BS marketing 1989, is a customer-focused and results-driven global business executive with human resources expertise in building talent and culture strategies to attract and retain the best people and support business growth and long-term success. She brings a deep track record of success in driving transformation through organizational design, executive coaching and talent acquisition at iconic companies spanning early stage to Fortune 100, with operations and employees covering the globe. She has worked in diverse industries, including oil and gas, retail, banking, consumer goods and fashion, with large populations of union and non-union employees.
Currently Bagin provides human resources consulting, advising, coaching and mentoring as Founder and President of R Bagin Partners.
This follows her time as Chief Human Resources Officer at KIND Snacks, the snack food company that sells its healthy snack bars and other products in more than 150,000 stores in the U.S. and more than 30 countries. Bagin served as a key member of the KIND Leadership Team that led the company’s sale to Mars (approximately $5 billion valuation). She redesigned the organization structure for better alignment and improved performance in support of a go-to-market strategy change from field sales-marketing to account-broker management. Bagin oversaw people and organization aspects of due diligence for the company’s acquisition of Creative Snacks and Nature’s Bakery. She built strong relationships and communications with team members, especially during COVID, resulting in improved engagement and culture metrics. She also regularly participated in board meetings, and led and facilitated the creation of the first Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Team made up of leadership and non-leadership team members.
Prior to this, Bagin was Chief Human Resources officer at Tory Burch, the privately held, global women’s fashion brand, where she was responsible for redesigning the organization structure to support new strategic priorities and change management initiatives to transition to an omnichannel retail operating model.
At Campbell Soup Company, Bagin held a number of leadership positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in Human Resources Vice President, Campbell North America, Global Supply Chain and Global R&D. In this role, she provided strong business partnership and led the HR team for a $5 billion business unit and the two largest global functions. Earlier roles include Human Resources Vice President, Campbell North America; Human Resources Vice President, Campbell U.S.A.; Human Resources Vice President, Global Talent Management; Human Resources Vice President, Canada, Away From Home, Mexico, Latin America; and Human Resources Director, Campbell USA.
Earlier in her career, Bagin was a human resources manager at First USA Bank (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.), PepsiCo and Reebok International. She began her career at Mobil Oil Corporation (now ExxonMobil).
Bagin earned a Master of Science in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science Business Administration at Drexel University. She currently serves as a Board Member of Audubon Mid-Atlantic and recently ended her term as part of Drexel University’s President’s Leadership Council.
Bagin resides in Philadelphia. In her free time she enjoys spending time with friends and family, running, reading and traveling.