People Engagement Sr. Program Mgr

Job Posting End Date: April 30

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:This position is accountable for delivering end-to-end program planning for P&C’s global key initiatives. Program planning will include assisting in implementing strategies, creation of roadmaps, implementation plans, change/adoption plans, success metrics, and communications plans. The incumbent will be accountable for overall management of end-to-end programs, as well as virtual teams, and will use best practices and learned knowledge to resolve complex issues in situations where there may not be a precedence.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading teams to implement strategy, roadmaps, change/adoption management plans, success metrics, and implementation plans for multiple large multi-disciplinary cross-functional initiatives for the Global Enterprise that enhance how Unum supports our employees/managers, clients, and evolving business models
• Leads more than one large program to deliver these initiatives with responsibility for coaching and directing the work of those assigned from P&C
• Drives large process and operational improvements, thinking creatively to deliver innovations to improve the Unum employee and manager experiences, influences implementation in functional areas within P&C
• Partners with Strategy and Planning Team colleagues, HRBPs, P&C SLT to drive the end-to-end change adoption plan for key initiatives that impact the Global Unum workforce
• Effectively presents data and analysis for key performance indicators, recommendations, and trends; responsible for regular program reporting
• Builds strong partnership across P&C to ensure consistency and operating effectiveness
• May oversee a small team of program managers
• May perform other duties as assigned

Job Specifications

• Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree with 7 years of project management experience
• Experience with large scale organizational transformations and or implementations, preferably in HR (e.g., M&A, OD restructures)
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively communicate to all levels of management and create strong working relationships
• Demonstrated strength in influencing others and delivering functional results
• Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills; Proficiency in project planning methodologies and tools with the ability to adapt and solve problems proactively and creatively
• Strategic and systems thinking capabilities; Continuous improvement mindset to recommend and implement changes (Six-Sigma, TQM, process engineering certification or training, added plus)
• Proven experience leading adoption/change rollout of HCM systems, software for workforce end users and/or driving size-able cross-functional organizational redesign efforts in a mid- to large-size corporate setting (ADKAR Certification or Practitioner added plus)
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills
• Ability to manage in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Innovative thinker, comfortable with change and trying new approaches

               

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$75,500.00-$142,700.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.  All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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Unum