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Associate Director – HR Focused Program Manager
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Job Description:
Lead & drive our largest and most complex DT programs, showing up with an entrepreneurial sense of urgency and ownership, as if you were investing your own money in the program’s results.
Serve as the primary point of contact between HR, Finance, Accounting, Technology, and third‑party payroll vendor.
Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners to deliver payroll guidance during reorganizations, M&A, employee transitions, and policy updates and system enhancements
Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor.
Foster trust and cultivate a collaborative partnership with digital and functional executive sponsors, ensuring a deep understanding of their strategic priorities & perspectives to drive alignment and shared success.
Ability to seamlessly navigate the political landscape amongst senior leaders in the function and DT.
Oversee all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies.
Drive the program’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed.
Continuously demonstrate progress, provide status reports/briefings.
Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the program.
Efficiently shepherd your programs through our phase-gated project governance framework.
Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate.
With grit and tenacity, attack complex issues and challenges for your program.
You will need to initiate and skillfully navigate tactful executive escalations to drive critical decisions while preserving trust, maintaining relationships, and fostering a constructive path forward.
In addition to delivering exceptional results on your assigned program, you’ll participate in efforts to continuously enhance and mature our PM services while evolving our value management capabilities.
Travel ~20% within US.
Requirements:
Typically a university degree and 12 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 10 years experience OR in absence of a degree, 15+ years of relevant experience is required
8+ years experience with program management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives with 3+ years experience building and managing schedules in MS Project.
Experience with managing HR and payroll systems such as Workday, ADP, Oracle, or similar platforms.
Proven experience managing large scale programs involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, Payroll, Data Repository, or Engineering systems.
Demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise programs, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule.