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Sr. HR Project Manager
Summary:
Are you a strategic thinker, master planner, and have a passion for leading projects that support the growth and success of a global organization? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, global environment, leading high-impact projects that transform the way people work? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
As our Sr. HR Project Manager, you’ll lead cross-functional HR initiatives aligned to global HR strategic priorities, providing project leadership, governance, and execution discipline across HR structure optimization, compensation priorities, HR technology, process improvement, and HR operating model transformation. You’ll manage multiple projects, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and ensure key HR initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and with meaningful business impact
If you enjoy working with global cross functional teams, and want to be part of something big, bold, and exciting, then we want to hear from you!
This role is based out of our corporate headquarters in Bloomington, MN.
Role Responsibilities:
- Project Planning: Develop and implement full-scale HR project plans, including scope, objectives, timelines, roles & responsibilities, budgets, and deliverables.
- Project Execution: Run the projects, manage teams, track progress, and ensure the project delivers expected outcomes within scope, time, and budget.
- Project Communication: Effectively communicate project status to stakeholders in a timely manner and clear fashion.
- Project Tools & Documentation: Utilize effective PM tools & technology to execute projects. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirement documentation, and presentations.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with global HR teams, cross functional teams, and external vendors to ensure the project’s success. You will coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and influence them to ensure the project’s success.
- Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement and implement best practices through project postmortems and create recommendation reports to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Project Transition: Ensure projects are successfully transitioned to operational support with necessary documentation, process updates, and training.
- Project Management Capability Building: Establish and promote HR project management standards, tools, governance, templates, and best practices to create a consistent framework that enables successful project execution across the global HR organization.
TRAVEL: Up to 10%, ability to travel domestically and internationally if/when required
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in business, HR, computer science or related field
- 5+ years of relevant experience in HR project management
- Knowledge of project management applications (for example: Microsoft Project)
- Skillful knowledge and use of MS Office tools, Jira
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or global HR M&A-related certifications.
- Experience working in a global, matrix manufacturing organization
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; expertise in setting and managing stakeholder expectations
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Experience with project management in deploying Workday
- Mergers & Acquisition PM experience
- Knowledge of industry standard project management methodology and experience or familiarity with PMBoK, SDLC, Agile or related disciplines
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional HR projects in a global or matrixed organization.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, organize complex work, and drive execution across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of HR processes, systems, and service delivery models.
Annual Salary Range: $92,400-115,500. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to applicable work experience, training, education, performance.
Employee benefits are part of the competitive total rewards package that Donaldson Company, Inc. provides to you. Our comprehensive benefits program includes health benefits, retirement plan (401k), paid time away, paid leaves (including paid parental leave) and more.
Immigration Sponsorship Not Available:
Applicants for this position must be currently and legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, J-1, F-1, CPT, OPT, etc.).
Donaldson will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the U.S. will not be considered.
Employment opportunities for positions in the United States may require use of information which is subject to the export control regulations of the United States. Hiring decisions for such positions are required by law to be made in compliance with these regulations. Applicants for employment opportunities in other countries must be able to meet the comparable export control requirements of that country and of the United States.
Donaldson Company has been made aware that there are several recruiting scams that are targeting job seekers. These scams have attempted to solicit money for job applications and/or collect confidential information, Donaldson will never solicit money during the application or recruiting process. Donaldson only accepts online applications through our Careers | Donaldson Company, Inc. website and any communication from a Donaldson recruiter would be sent using a donaldson.com email address. If you have any questions about the legitimacy of an employment opportunity, please reach out to [email protected] to verify that the communication is from Donaldson.
Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, human resources, computer science, or a related field
- 5 or more years of relevant experience in HR project management
- Knowledge of project management applications, such as Microsoft Project
- Skillful knowledge and use of Microsoft Office tools
- Experience using Jira
- PMP, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or global HR M&A-related certification
- Experience in a global, matrix manufacturing organization
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder expectation management expertise
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Experience deploying Workday
- Mergers and acquisitions project management experience
- Knowledge or familiarity with PMBOK, SDLC, Agile, or related project management disciplines
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional HR projects in a global or matrixed organization
- Ability to manage ambiguity, organize complex work, and drive execution across multiple stakeholders
- Strong business acumen and understanding of HR processes, systems, and service delivery models
Donaldson Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Donaldson Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Donaldson Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs like a 401(k) match, profit-sharing, and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful components of total compensation. Company materials consistently frame retirement benefits within a broader Total Rewards offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program with mental‑health resources create a comprehensive health and wellbeing package. Healthcare is often characterized as decent and a core strength of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave are explicitly included, alongside other company‑paid leaves such as bereavement, jury duty, and military leave. Some locations highlight multi‑week PTO from the first year, underscoring breadth of leave options.
Donaldson Company Insights
What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
