People Project Manager - M&A

Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Director, People Strategy & Transformation, the People Project Manager, M&A is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing merger and acquisition projects as it relates to People (HR) initiatives to include timelines, risks, resources (internal and/or external), project budgets, and vendor relations. This role oversees the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific merger and acquisition projects ensuring consistency with NAPA’s strategies, commitments, and goals.

Responsibilities

• Translates merger and acquisition business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope, timing, deliverables, resources, and KPIs for NAPA’s People Team.
• Utilize project management expertise for merger and acquisition People projects to positively impact employee lifecycle and business outcomes.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with People leaders and business partners to understand needs, align on objectives, create buy-in, and push projects to completion.
• Formulates and continually re-assesses the appropriate project management approach and project management skill set / resourcing mix across internal and external partners to ensure all project tasks are successfully completed.
• Utilizes key People data and trends to identify insights and solutions for improved organizational change effectiveness.
• Negotiates sufficient resources from Corporate and Field HR Teams, Functional Teams, Business Units, and other groups as appropriate.
• Effectively sets and communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Defines project success criteria and communicate to team throughout project life cycle.
• Manages and coordinates HR-related project activity resulting from business unit acquisitions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years working knowledge of HR systems, processes, trends, and best practices.
• Previous HR project management experience including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with different stakeholder sets. 
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation and critical thinking skills. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or relevant work experience.
• PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications.
• Experience implementing Workday HCM.

Leadership Skills

• Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
• Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
• Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
• Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.

People Operations Capabilities

• Business Acumen: Must possess industry, organization, and financial knowledge.
• Strategic Consulting: Must be able to provide consultative problem-solving, as well as project and risk management competency.
• Relationship Management: Must promote collaboration, networking, persuasion and influence.
• Data Judgement: Must be able to provide data foundations, interpretation and storytelling.
• Talent Management: Provide strategic HR expertise, employee experience management, change management and technological savviness.
• Agility: Must lead with a growth mindset and drive innovation and iteration.

Physical Demands / Working Environment

• Must be able to work in a corporate office setting.

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