Senior Manager HR Project Management

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 65% People Leadership - Attracts, retains, and develops top talent. Sets outcome-focused goals and ensures accountability to deliver on commitments. Supports Manager and team to remove obstacles. Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports. Drives the delivery of large, complex initiatives or programs across matrix organizations or manages project resources for one or more portfolios.
• 25% Portfolio & Stakeholder Management - Champions and applies effective communication methods to ensure alignment across various audiences. Seeks to understand and apply stakeholder perspectives-the ability to influence decisions and negotiate positive outcomes with stakeholders. Champions Project Management best practices: Collaborates with other leaders to create standards and processes that increase business value and mitigate risks. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives. Partner with HR leadership to maintain HR initiative tracking and consistently prioritize and execute initiatives that are of the highest value to the business.
• 10% Project Control & Execution - Drives adoption of qualitative and quantitative measures to track outcomes and ROI (e.g., success measures). Champions issue/obstacle resolution to maintain team momentum and productivity. Develops strategic approaches to determine and align dependencies, proactive risk, and issues identification and mitigation plans. Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work. Proactively identifies barriers and partners with leadership teams to mitigate risks. Champions ideas, analysis, and recommendations to improve processes and increase business value. Collaborates with stakeholders to support the project planning efforts, including scoping, defining the project deliverables, creating a logical work breakdown structure, and defining major project milestones: supports and guides manager and team members on related activities.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 2+ years of previous leadership experience.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Experience managing alignment across projects in an enterprise environment.
• Experience managing strategic relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships.
• Subject matter expertise in the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies in a modern software environment via multiple methodologies.
• Experience translating ideas, approaches, and dependencies between technical and functional team members.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Office and Project Management tools (e.g., Smartsheet).
• Experience communicating project status, risks, issues, and needs to senior leaders and managing up.
• Minimum education: bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Office and Project Management tools (e.g., Smartsheet).
• Experience managing strategic relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 2+ years of previous leadership experience.
• Professional Project Management and/or Change Management Certifications (e.g., PMP).