Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
Join our team and create your future.
This role supports end-to-end transformation lifecycle including discovery, process analysis, solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement. The Associate owns assigned deliverables, manages execution activities, identifies improvement opportunities, supports data-driven decisions, and partners with stakeholders to deliver practical HR solutions aligned to business outcomes.
This role applies a product-first mindset by understanding stakeholder needs, defining problems, and supporting solutions that create meaningful value for HR and its stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Transformation Delivery & Project Management
• Support assigned HR transformation initiatives and workstreams by applying project management discipline across planning, execution, governance, risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder coordination.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, action logs, RAID trackers, status updates, governance materials, and decision records to enable disciplined execution.
• Coordinate project activities across HR stakeholders, subject matter experts, and partner teams; facilitate working sessions, document decisions, track actions, and ensure timely follow-through to maintain momentum and alignment.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, roadblocks, and potential impacts to timelines, quality, or outcomes; escalate concerns with relevant context and support mitigation actions.
Process Excellence & Product-First Solution Support
• Apply a product-first mindset by understanding stakeholder needs, defining problems, aligning on desired outcomes, and supporting solutions that deliver meaningful HR value.
• Support current-state assessments by analyzing processes, documenting workflows, identifying pain points, capturing stakeholder needs, and applying process excellence approaches such as Lean, Six Sigma, and root cause analysis to identify improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to future-state process design by documenting workflows, roles, decision points, dependencies, and improvement recommendations that simplify, standardize, automate, and enable scalable HR solutions.
Data Insights & Stakeholder Partnership
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to assess current-state performance, identify improvement opportunities, measure transformation outcomes, track benefits realization, and enable data-driven decisions.
• Partner with HR Shared Services, HR Centers of Excellence, Corporate IT, Internal Communications, and other teams to coordinate handoffs, support implementation readiness, and enable adoption.
• Develop clear, concise, and compelling presentations, project updates, executive communications, and stakeholder materials tailored to different audiences.
Qualifications
• 4-6 years of experience in project management, business transformation, consulting, HR operations, process improvement, or related discipline.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies and practices, including Agile, waterfall, hybrid approaches, planning, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder management, and governance. Project management certifications such as CAPM, PMP, or Agile certification preferred.
• Working knowledge of process excellence methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, process mapping, root cause analysis, continuous improvement and process improvement approaches.
• Ability to organize assigned work into tasks, priorities, timelines, and deliverables, and to follow through with limited oversight.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain information clearly, listen actively, confirm understanding, and document decisions and actions accurately.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including the ability to gather information, identify issues, identify interdependencies, evaluate options, and recommend practical next steps.
• Strong stakeholder service orientation, with responsiveness, professionalism, follow-through, and sensitivity to stakeholder needs and timelines.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a cross-functional, geographically distributed, and changing environment.
• Proficiency with common productivity and project management tools such as Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking tools.
Core Competencies
Transformation Mindset
Ability to understand business needs, challenge existing approaches, and drive improved ways of working.
Project Management Excellence
Ability to organize, coordinate, and execute initiatives with structure, discipline, and attention to detail.
Process Excellence
Ability to analyze processes, identify improvement opportunities, implement scalable processes and apply continuous improvement principles.
Outcome Orientation
Ability to connect assigned activities and solutions to desired HR outcomes and stakeholder value.
Stakeholder Management
Ability to build relationships, understand stakeholder needs, align stakeholders, and drive collaboration.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Ability to analyze challenges, identify root causes, and recommend practical solutions.
Execution Excellence
Ability to take ownership, drive progress, and deliver results.
Quality work standards
Ability to deliver high-quality work with rigor, attention to detail, and continuous improvement mindset.
Success Measures
• Assigned deliverables are completed on time, with clear ownership, accurate content, and minimal rework.
• Project plans, trackers, risks, issues, and action logs are kept current and used to support predictable execution.
• Stakeholders receive timely, clear, and useful updates that improve alignment and reduce ambiguity.
• Risks, dependencies, and barriers are identified early and escalated with relevant context and practical options.
• Process documentation accurately reflects current-state and future-state needs, including handoffs, roles, decision points, and improvement opportunities.
• Project and process materials support better decisions, stronger execution, and measurable HRTO impact.
• Process improvement opportunities are identified through structured analysis, stakeholder insights, and process excellence approaches.
Skills Required
- 4-6 years of experience in project management, business transformation, consulting, HR operations, process improvement, or related discipline
- Working knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), planning, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder management, and governance
- Project management certification such as CAPM, PMP, or Agile certification
- Working knowledge of process excellence methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, process mapping, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Ability to organize work into tasks, priorities, timelines, and deliverables and follow through with limited oversight
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation and executive communications
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to gather information, identify issues, and recommend practical next steps
- Strong stakeholder service orientation with responsiveness, professionalism, and follow-through
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a cross-functional, geographically distributed environment
- Proficiency with productivity and project management tools such as Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking tools
Huron Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huron and has not been reviewed or approved by Huron.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a company 401(k) match positioned as a core element of total rewards, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Company materials and filings describe a competitive match structure with broad availability.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan provides company‑matched RSUs on purchased shares and is broadly accessible across the workforce, indicating meaningful equity participation. Company filings outline the plan’s match design and wide eligibility.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies emphasize flexible/unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave with caregiving resources, reflecting expansive time‑off options. Careers and benefits pages present flexibility and time away as core components of the package.
Huron Insights
What We Do
Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve.
