Senior Project Manager - HR Strategic Projects

RaceTrac • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Senior Project Manager ensures the success of multiple high-impact HR initiatives through collaborating with HR Centers of Expertise, stakeholders across the organization, and external partners. This individual drives strategic projects from initiation to closure by creating solutions, facilitating decisions, supporting project governance, and delivering work that meets the outcomes expected by the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of project management experience, with experience leading enterprise-wide projects.
• Strong collaborative mindset with enthusiasm to drive stakeholder engagement and accomplish and exceed objectives.
• Responsive, resourceful, organized, flexible, and proactive, with a focus on execution and delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Learning agility and proven analytical decision-making experience.
• Comfortable pushing back when necessary and leading crucial conversations.
• Effective negotiator with the ability to influence others and manage complexity and ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading enterprise-wide HR projects.
• Experience using HR metrics to inform decision-making.
• Experience leading change management and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency in project management software, specifically SmartSheet.
• PMP or other relevant certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete project management lifecycle for multiple complex projects.
• Act as thought partner alongside HR Centers of Expertise, internal stakeholders, and vendors to provide recommendations, identify risks and dependencies, offer solutions, resolve conflicts, and drive strategy.
• Liaise between decision maker(s), program owner(s), and impacted stakeholders.
• Partners with them to define and communicate roles, project goals, expectations, and measures of success.
• Obtain business requirements from internal customers, define scope, develop implementation plans, manage budgets and timelines, ensure appropriate documentation, and navigate organizational priorities to optimize the critical path and mitigate risks.
• Communicate project status, manage escalations, and direct decision-making processes, ensuring executive leadership, steering committees, program owners, and other stakeholders have appropriate level of information and agency.
• Continuously work with a critical eye to seek opportunities for process improvement.
• Administer team logistics, including but not limited to team meetings, conference calls, meeting minutes, action items, and basic follow up items.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees