Sr. Manager, Project Manager – Payroll/HR

Key Responsibilities

• Lead & drive large and 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.
• Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor.
• Instill trust to develop and maintain a collaborative relationship with digital and functional executive sponsors to understand their strategic interests & viewpoints.
• 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. Often involves tactful executive escalations and driving for key decisions. All without leaving a wake of destruction and burned bridges.
• In addition to knocking it out of the park on your assigned program, you’ll participate in efforts to continuously improve and mature our PM services and evolve our value management capabilities.
• Ability to travel ~20% within US

Qualification & Requirements

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically a university degree and 10 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 8 years’ experience OR in absence of a degree, 12+ years of relevant experience is required
• 5+ years’ experience with project management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives.
• 3+ years’ of proven experience in Records Management: Proven experience in managing records management projects, including understanding of records lifecycle, retention schedules, and compliance requirements.
• 3+ years’ of proven experience managing large scale projects involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, Payroll, Data Repository, or Engineering systems.
• 3+ years’ successful experience with Payroll system implementations, upgrades, and/or integrations with a demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise projects, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule.
• 3+ years’ experience building and managing schedules in MS Project.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience working in a government and/or large, complex corporate/industrial environment.
• Expert in creating visually appealing, executive-level PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience developing & managing financial business cases & cost/benefit analyses for DT programs.
• Experience with integrating multiple project methodologies including waterfall & Agile frameworks like SAFe.
• Role model in exhibiting and intentionally developing leadership behaviors in yourself & others by Driving Results, Instilling Trust, Collaborating and Communicating Effectively, maintaining Customer Focus and demonstrating Courage and Strategic Vision.
• SAFe or similar agile certifications and Project Management certification (PMP, etc.)

Benefits

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.