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.

Benefits:

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life insurance
  • short-term disability
  • long-term disability
  • 401(k) match
  • flexible spending accounts
  • flexible work schedules
  • employee assistance program
  • Employee Scholar Program
  • parental leave
  • paid time off
  • holidays
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