Senior Manager, HR Project Management

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Position Purpose:  

The Senior Manager of Project Management plays a vital role in the Human Resources Project Management Office (HR PMO), which is responsible for establishing the blueprint and implementing tools for project management within the HR organization. The Senior Manager will lead a team of project management professionals and be responsible for planning and executing large-scale HR initiatives and programs while also overseeing resource allocation activities for your teams. In addition, the positions will be responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing top talent, ensuring that the project team has the skills and resources necessary to succeed. When leading project delivery, they will provide practical strategies for cross-team management and may also show large, cross-functional initiatives across the organization. The Senior Manager is responsible for fostering and maintaining relationships and guiding stakeholders. 

Key Responsibilities:

• 65% People Leadership - Attracts, retains, and develops top talent. Sets outcome-focused goals and ensures accountability to deliver on commitments. Supports Manager and team to remove obstacles. Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports. Drives the delivery of large, complex initiatives or programs across matrix organizations or manages project resources for one or more portfolios.

• 25% Portfolio & Stakeholder Management - Champions and applies effective communication methods to ensure alignment across various audiences. Seeks to understand and apply stakeholder perspectives—the ability to influence decisions and negotiate positive outcomes with stakeholders. Champions Project Management best practices: Collaborates with other leaders to create standards and processes that increase business value and mitigate risks. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives. Partner with HR leadership to maintain HR initiative tracking and consistently prioritize and execute initiatives that are of the highest value to the business.

• 10% Project Control & Execution - Drives adoption of qualitative and quantitative measures to track outcomes and ROI (e.g., success measures). Champions issue/obstacle resolution to maintain team momentum and productivity. Develops strategic approaches to determine and align dependencies, proactive risk, and issues identification and mitigation plans. Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work. Proactively identifies barriers and partners with leadership teams to mitigate risks. Champions ideas, analysis, and recommendations to improve processes and increase business value. Collaborates with stakeholders to support the project planning efforts, including scoping, defining the project deliverables, creating a logical work breakdown structure, and defining major project milestones: supports and guides manager and team members on related activities.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:  

• This Position typically reports to Director or Senior Director.

• This Position has 2 direct reports.

Travel Requirements: 

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 5% of the time. 

Physical Requirements:  

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions: 

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

• Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams

• Demonstrated project management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• 8+ years of relevant work experience

• Experience managing alignment across projects in an enterprise environment  

• Experience managing strategic relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships  

• Subject matter expertise in the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies in a modern software environment via multiple methodologies    

• Experience translating ideas, approaches, and dependencies between technical and functional team members

• Deep experience with Microsoft Office and Project Management tools (e.g., Smartsheet)    

• Experience communicating project status, risks, issues, and needs to senior leaders and managing up

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• 2+ years of previous leadership experience

Certifications:  

• Professional Project Management and/or Change Management Certifications (e.g., PMP)    

Competencies: 

• Action Oriented

• Decision Quality

• Manages Ambiguity

• Nimble Learning

• Builds Effective Teams

• Collaborates

• Plans and Aligns

• Situational Adaptability

• Communicates Effectively

• Develops Talent

• Drives Results

• Organizational Savvy