HR Project Manager

HR Project Manager 

The HR Project Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing HR initiatives to include timelines, risks, resources (internal and/or external), project budgets, and third-party vendors. This role is responsible for overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. 

Responsibilities 

Project-Based Customer Relationship Management 

• Establish and maintain relationships with the business units and key partner groups to understand their business needs, ensure alignment on objectives, and ensure ongoing buy-in across all project activities. 

Strategic Planning and Project Initiation 

• Translate business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope, timing, deliverables, resources, and key measures of success. 

• Formulate and continually re-assess the appropriate project management approach and project management skill set / resourcing mix across internal and external partners to ensure all project tasks are successfully completed. 

• Create project plans, including timelines and milestones. 

• Negotiate sufficient resources from Corporate and Field HR Teams, Functional Teams, Business Units, and other groups as appropriate. 

• Effectively set and communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders. 

• Define project success criteria and communicate to team throughout project life cycle. 

• Manage and coordinate HR-related project activity resulting from business unit acquisitions. 

Project Execution 

• Manage ongoing project plans, budgets, resources, and vendors. 

• Facilitate meetings and drive project issues through to resolution. 

• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations. 

• Proactively manage and communicate ongoing changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans. 

• Coach, mentor, motivate and lead project team members. Influence project team to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. 

• Manage Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) with vendors relating to HR projects. 

Change Management 

• Identify all stakeholders, both direct and indirect, and determine level of involvement needed for project success. 

• Work closely with Change Management and Corporate Communications to ensure appropriate change management activities are defined and included in all project plans. 

Post-Implementation Transition and Evaluation 

• Support the ongoing development of best practices and tools for HR project management and execution. 

• Conduct project post-mortems and create recommendations in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. 

• Ensure comprehensive and seamless project post-implementation transition. 
   

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or relevant work experience 

• Minimum 5 years working knowledge of HR systems, processes, trends, and best practices 

• PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications preferred 

• Experience implementing Workday HCM strongly preferred 

• Previous HR project management experience required, including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with different stakeholder sets 

• Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation and critical thinking skills 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills