Sr. People Project Manager

Job Summary

The Sr. People Project Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing People initiatives to include timelines, risks, resources (internal and/or external), project budgets, and third-party vendors. This role is responsible for overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

Responsibilities

• Project-Based Customer Relationship Management
• Establish and maintain relationships with the business units and key partner groups to understand their business needs, ensure alignment on objectives, and ensure ongoing buy-in across all project activities.
  

Strategic Planning and Project Initiation

• Translate business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope, timing, deliverables, resources, and key measures of success.
• Formulate and continually re-assess 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.
• Create project plans, including timelines and milestones.
• Negotiate sufficient resources from Corporate and Field People Teams, Functional Teams,
• Business Units, and other groups as appropriate.
• Effectively set and communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Define project success criteria and communicate to team throughout project life cycle.
• Manage and coordinate HR-related project activity resulting from business unit acquisitions.
  

Project Execution

• Manage ongoing project plans, budgets, resources, and vendors.
• Facilitate meetings and drive project issues through to resolution.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.
• Proactively manage and communicate ongoing changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and lead project team members. Influence project team to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Participating in Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) with vendors relating to People projects.
  

Change Management

• Identify all stakeholders, both direct and indirect, and determine level of involvement needed for project success.
• Work closely with Change Management and Corporate Communications to ensure appropriate change management activities are defined and included in all project plans.
  

Post-Implementation Transition and Evaluation

• Support the ongoing development of best practices and tools for People project management and execution.
• Conduct project post-mortems and create recommendations in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Ensure comprehensive and seamless project post-implementation transition.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or relevant work experience
• Minimum 5 years working knowledge of HR systems, processes, trends, and best practices.
• PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications preferred.
• Previous HR project management experience required, including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with different stakeholder sets (preferably global)
• Prosci Change Management Certification preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  

Leadership

• 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.
  

Physical Demands / Working Environment

• Principal duties of this job are performed primarily in an office environment, with occasional field duties.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to stand and walk between work sites.

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