Senior Global Total Rewards Project Manager (Payroll)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the initiation, coordination, and successful completion of multiple, parallel projects across the payroll department.
• Facilitates the definition of project scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with senior management, involving all relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborates with HRIS teams to develop project management timelines and deliverables.
• Leads functional team participation in technical initiatives.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects.
• Facilitates the estimation and allocation of resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Develops and presents full-scale project plans with assigned resources and associated communications documents.
• Ensures project status is proactively handled, monitored and appropriately communicated to stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle to keep stakeholders apprised as changes occur.
• Handles stakeholder expectations and facilitates solutions to challenges to maintain customer satisfaction.
• Coordinates user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure business requirements are satisfied and needed UAT documentation is produced.
• Develops, facilitates and delivers comprehensive project documentation including progress reports, proposals, requirements and presentation for team and for executive management.
• Conducts project post-mortems and drives continuous improvement efforts.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Leads efforts to standardize practices and consolidate tracking methods across all projects and provides meaningful contribution to the Project Management Office.
• Works closely with Regional Payroll Managers in identifying payroll process improvement opportunities.
• Drives execution of all prioritized process improvement initiatives - coordinating with HRIS as needed to develop and present Change Requests.
• Represents Global Payroll from a project management perspective on all M&A activity.
• Works with Global Payroll team throughout the RFP process to drive the best vendor selection in support of global and regional payroll processing optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree; Minimum of 7 years of experience in a Functional Project Manager PMO role, with an emphasis in Total Rewards.
• Proficiency in PMO methodologies.
• PMP Certification.
• Prior experience establishing PMO capabilities in an organization and aligning stakeholders to best practices in project management.
• Prior experience with HRIS and data administration project lifecycles.
• Solid knowledge of HRIS system design.
• Proficient in MS Office suite of applications.
• Ability to collaborate on and manage complex, multi-team projects.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• PMP Certification.
• Bilingual in Spanish.
• Proficiency in Smartsheet or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of business activities and objectives of functional teams within HR (Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, etc.).
• Experience working in a business environment undergoing significant change or growth.
• Ability to travel to international locations if needed, expected to be minimal.

Benefits & Perks

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance.
• 401(K) and Roth options.
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA).
• Educational expense reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave.
• Digital mental health services (Talkspace).
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function).
• Training programs.
• Gallagher Thrive program - elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing.
• Charitable matching gift program.
• And more...